She studied at the Chair of Glass at the PWSSP in Wrocław (1951–1957), her MFA diploma project was realized in the class of Professor Stanisław Dawski. Immediately after graduation, she was hired as the in-house designer at the “Bogucice" porcelain factory in Katowice-Bogucice where she continued until 1964. Among her designs produced by the factory particularly worthy of mention are the Epos dinner service, Luna coffee service, and Her First Ball figurine.
In 1965, she started working for the “Ząbkowice" Utility Glassworks located in the Ząbkowice district of Dąbrowa Górnicza. She joined her husband Jan Sylwester Drost who had headed the factory’s in-house design studio from 1960. Devoting the next several decades of their professional activity to the Ząbkowice" glassworks, they formed one of the most prominent and dynamic teams in Polish glass design.
Eryka Trzewik-Drost became renowned for innovative and functional designs realized in pressed glass. She started with simple but cleverly shaped small flower vases. Worthy of note among her designs from this early period is the compact and stackable Conti tableware set.
In the 1970s, the “Ząbkowice" glassworks introduced multi-element product lines comprising serving plates, plates, bowls, glasses, tumblers, goblets, cups, containers, etc., for which Eryka developed innovative relief decorations covering the object’s entire surface. Evocatively called Sahara, Igloo, Amonit, and Cora, these structural motifs become her trademark.
Designing small glass sculptures was Eryka’s autonomous interest, unique among Polish glass designers. Her first figural forms combined aesthetic appeal with functionality, like the Mexican Girl candlestick or Birdie ashtray, while later designs are purely decorative.
[Barbara Banaś]
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