Zakopane Style

The focus was something else entirely: to build a home which would settle all existing doubts about the possibility of adapting folk architecture to the requirements deriving from the more complex and sophisticated needs of comfort and beauty.

[3]The Zakopane style soon found proponents among other outstanding architects, including Jan Witkiewicz-Koszyc, Wladyslaw Matlakowski, and Walery Eliasz-Radzikowski.

The most important examples in Podhale are the Tatra Museum, Dworzec Tatrzański and Grand Hotel Stamary in Zakopane and the Military Sanatorium in Kościelisko.

There was also the Dom Ludowy in Sosnowiec, the Chata built for author Stefan Żeromski in Nałęczów, a series of villas in Wisła, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Anin and Vilnius, as well as the train station in Saldutiškis, Lithuania.

There was also a period of Neo-Zakopane Style in the 1950s during the Socialist realism,[6] represented by such constructions like the Tourist hostel Dom Turysty in Zakopane (1949–1952) and several mountain huts, eg.