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Monika Piwowarska, author of highly valued artistic fabrics, in the 1940s designed a series of hand puppets. Commissioned by Biuro Nadzoru Estetyki Produkcji [Production Aesthetics Supervision Bureau], they were created as prototypes for serial production, both artisanal and industrial. The aforementioned institution was at the time commissioning and collecting objects and designs that were supposed to be manufactured in the future – toys, metalwork, jewellery, textiles, laces, clothing and other similar products. At first, those who delivered them were mainly artists with pre-war education, yet unfamiliar with industrial design. In the 1950s, the first designers with proper professional background started to emerge, being also employed by the Institute of Industrial Design, successor of the Production Aesthetics Supervision Bureau.
