Here’s an article about his design work; and here’s a picture of a Soltan relative sitting on one of the benches in Warsaw.
Update: UD thanks a reader for this link to an English-language article about Jerzy Soltan’s benches.
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September 19th, 2020 at 12:33PM
Sitting, not standing, Aunt Augusta.
September 19th, 2020 at 3:09PM
Andrzej: I struggled with that. Initially wrote sitting, changed to standing… I’ll correct it…
September 19th, 2020 at 8:48PM
No problem at all! But to be perfectly honest and precise I’m not sitting in front of them, just on one of them 🙂
September 19th, 2020 at 10:39PM
Corrected it again, and I think I got it right.
September 20th, 2020 at 2:53PM
I do recall seeing the original benches in the Warsaw Center City station in the 1970s. For readers who don’t read Polish and can’t get past the Gazeta Wyborcza paywall, here’s a nice piece in English:
https://warsawinsider.pl/a-new-benchmark-in-prl-design/
September 20th, 2020 at 7:50PM
Polish Peter: Many thanks! I’ll put the link in the post. UD
September 22nd, 2020 at 6:54AM
Thank you! Now history will know the true story of how I rested on uncle Jerzy’s bench.