Julia Griffin (née Dudkiewicz) is an art historian and curator specialising in the Arts & Crafts Movement and Victorian painting. Her PhD explores William Morris and D.G. Rossetti (Central Saint Martins, UAL). Julia has been responsible for a number of innovative exhibitions and permanent collection rehangs, notably the City’s New Collection Displays (2015) at the Guildhall Art Gallery, for which she was awarded Freedom of the City of London. Recent publications include contributions to May Morris. Art and Life (William Morris Gallery, 2017) and Routledge Research Companion to William Morris (2020).Andrzej Szczerski is Director of the National Museum in Kraków and Professor in the Art History Department at Jagiellonian University. He has published extensively on 20th-century art, design, and architecture, including a pioneering study on the reception of British art in Central Europe Views of Albion, The Reception of British Art and Design in Central Europe (1890–1918) (Peter Lang Oxford: 2015). He has curated exhibitions on 19th and 20th century art and architecture, and in 2009 he co-curated "Symbolism in Poland and Britain" at the Tate Britain in London.

• Acknowledgements; Preface: Young Poland and the Search for a National Style; Editors’ Introduction: Young Poland and the Arts and Crafts Movement, 1890–1918 – A New Perspective; PART 1: The Making of the Polish Arts and Crafts Movement: Key People, Places and Ideas; 1. The Reception of the Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Poland; 2. Fellow Arts and Crafts Reformers Stanisław Wyspiański and William Morris: Parallel Lives; 3. ‘Let Us Surround Ourselves With Our Own Beauty’: Stanisław Wyspiański’s Decorative Scheme for the Franciscan Church in Kraków; 4. ‘Disappointed Love’: Stanisław Wyspiański and Wawel; 5. Wyspiański’s Chochoły: A Meditation on the ‘Straw Man’ Generation; 6. The Zakopane Style of Stanisław Witkiewicz; 7. Karol Kłosowski and the Silent Villa: Living the Arts and Crafts Life in the Tatras; 8. Karol Kłosowski (1882–1971): The Last Young Poland Artist and a Genius for Ornament; 9. ‘Fine Handwork of Various Professions’: The Kraków Workshops; 10. Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (b.1891, Kraków, d.1945, Manchester): The Pictorial Art of Young Poland’s Daughter; PART 2: Objects and Craft Practices in Focus; 11. Interiors and Furniture; 12. Edward Bartłomiejczyk’s Design for a Nursery; 13. Textiles; 14. Ceramics; 15. Children’s Toys and Christmas-Tree Decorations from the Kraków Workshops; 16. The Book Beautiful; 17. Painting; Notes; Select Bibliography; Contributor Biographies; Index; Image Credits

'This beautiful book lifts the lid on the story of Młoda Polska, or Young Poland. While other countries had their Art Nouveau, Vienna its Secession, and Britain its Arts and Crafts Movement, for Poland, around 1900, this was its emerging and unique arts moment.' - The Arts Society (The Best New Art Books to Enjoy this Month)