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• The Man

  “Life is very, very confusing, and so films should be allowed to be, too”. David LynchBorn in 1946 in Missoula, Montana, iconic film director David Lynch was raised in backwater America, hopping from state to state hanging onto the coat tails of his scientist father....

• Daniel Libeskind

  
  Whilst most of us abandoned our architectural aspirations the moment the Lego set was mangled by the dog Daniel Libeskind has gone on to become one of the world’s most eminent architects and one of Łódź’s proudest exports....

• Łódź: The top five likes and dislikes of city residents

  During June 2011 Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper invited 21 journalism students from City University London to visit the country’s largest cities to assess whether they were ready to host the upcoming Euro 2012 football tournament....

• Wall Fresco

  If you’re walking in the area of Piotrkowska 71 you probably won’t be the first person to get nailed to the floor bya zooming rickshaw....

• Łódź trivia

  Poland’s full of ‘well I never’ facts, and there’s no better way to impress a hot date than by telling them about Europe’s largest desert (close to Katowice), or the street in Warsaw named after Winnie the Poo....

• Jerzy Kosiński

  
  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....

• The industrialists

  ‘Łódź was waking up, the first yelling factory whistle pierced the quiet of the early morning, then in all parts of the city others began to spring up ever more raucously and bawled in hoarse voices like a choir of monstrous roosters crowing their metal throats the call to work....

• David Lynch

  
  The iconic film director David Lynch, whose surrealist works range from Mulholland Drive to Twin Peaks, has completed work on his latest project, Inland Empire - currently in post-production....

• Jan Karski

  
  ‘Every government and church says, “We tried to help the Jews,” because they are ashamed, they want to keep their reputations....

• Rickshaws

  
  A relatively recent phenomena, rickshaws were first introduced to Łódź in 1993 and today you’ll find over a hundred pedaling breathlessly up and down ulica Piotrkowska....

• Marcel Szytenchelm

  While much of Łódź looks like it’s ready to keel over the  main drag, Piotrkowska, is something of a feast for the eyes; scrubbed, beveled and back to its best this art nouveau masterpiece is, for many, the whole reason for visiting....

• Max Factor

  
  Max Faktor (or Faktorowicz), born in Łódź in 1877, has come to be regarded as the father of modern day cosmetics....

• In pursuit of Jacob Bronowski

  
  Best known as the presenter of the BBC’s genuinely groundbreaking 1973 documentary series The Ascent of Man (and the best-selling book which accompanied the series), Jacob Bronowski’s central belief was that the pursuit of knowledge, the production of art for art’s sake were what fundamentally made human beings human....

• Krzysztof Kieślowski

  
  The late Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941- 1996) is known and respected the world over as a maker of great feature films....