Guzów [ˈɡuzuf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wiskitki, within Żyrardów County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.

[2][3][4] In the late Middle Ages the lands of Guzów were a ducal estate owned by Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia.

She became 'starościna' and brought the immense estate with her in her dowry when she married thirdly the highly influential politician and courtier, Andrzej Ogiński [pl].

Strictly, it came under the Prussian kingdom's Treasury, but it was in the gift of Frederick William II of Prussia who passed it to his loyal minister, Karl Georg von Hoym.

However, his arguably most productive, if doomed, move was to pass the estate onto one of his seven sons, Henryk, an entrepreneur and industrialist, who had greatly contributed to the economic development of Congress Poland.

[7] Lubieński senior donated Ruda Guzowska, part of the estate, specifically for the creation in 1833 of a state-of-the-art textile factory, with machinery imported from France along with its inventor, Philippe de Girard.

He set about rebuilding the manor house, fashioning it into a French Renaissance style palace with a park in the manner of Capability Brown.

The gradually reduced Guzów estate remained in the possession of the Sobański family into two World wars, when the palace served as a military hospital.

At the start of World War II it was still the property of Antoni Sobański, a wartime writer and journalist with the BBC Polish Section.

The then owner, Feliks Sobański, commissioned Polish architect Władysław Hirschel to recreate a property reminiscent of French Loire Valley castles.

With help from public heritage funds and hiring out the venue as a film set, work on the restoration is finally under way guided by a firm of specialist architects.