Józef Czajkowski; 21 January 1872 – 27 July 1947) was a Polish architect, furniture designer, and painter of international renown. Czajkowski's arts in all forms sought to distill and improve upon that which was best about Polish tradition, and his aim was to celebrate the culture of the people his art served. He was born and died in Warsaw. He wrote, in 1928, "Poland has been politically resurrected and it shall be reborn internally as well, and as such it must find its visual mode of expression. [...] It was through art that Poland endured from within during the invasion, and it is through a