A right royal cock up
15th April 2011
© UK_repsome flickr.com
The royal wedding will not feature Mr Bergier's work
For the last three months Polish furniture maker Dariusz Bergier has been working flat out creating bespoke cabinets and tables for what he believed was the wedding bash of Britain’s Prince Wills and Kate Middleton.
The Pole from Lodz said that he and his team had been working non-stop to get the pieces ready for posh furniture makers Fassbinder and English.
“We are very excited and honoured to have been asked to make this furniture for the royal wedding,” he told national media in Poland.
He added that he had been approached by the furniture company during a trade fair in Birmingham and that the pieces would end up at the posh five star London Stafford hotel in the heart o ...
The full text of articles over six months old is only available to members of My NPE
Born in Łódź, 1933, Jerzy Kosiński stands out as one of the 20th centuries great literary talents, with a life story every bit as sinister and dramatic as his books. ... -
In the late 18th century Poland was suffering a little bit of a crisis: it didn’t exist. At least not on the map, anyway. The backwards-glancing oeuvre of the nation’s ... -