In 1926–1931, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where she attended classes of Miłosz Kotarbiński, Edmund Bartłomiejczyk and Władysław Skoczylas (printmaking and graphic design), Karol Tichy (ceramics), and Lucjan Kintopf (weaving). She graduated with an MFA in 1934 and joined KAGR, an association of artists specializing in advertising and graphic design. In 1935, she received a grant from the National Culture Fund and continued her education in Paris at the school of Paul Collin (1935–1937). After World War II, she joined the ŁAD Artistic Cooperative. She was a member of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers (ZPAP) and also of the Keramos Association of Ceramic Artists (from 1974).
In the first postwar years, she collaborated with the state institutions newly established to implement and improve design standards in the nationalized industries: the Department of Manufacturing, the Bureau for Supervising Aesthetic Standards in Industrial Production, and then the Institute of Industrial Design. During this period, she co-designed chandeliers for public spaces (together with Halina Jastrzębowska and Henryk Gaczyński). She also designed one of the first pressed glass sets (called Perełki, literally “small pearls") serially produced by the “Ząbkowice" glassworks in Dąbrowa Górnicza after 1945. She also designed glassware for the “Sudety" Glassworks in Szczytna. In 1964–1979, she headed the in-house Design Studio the “Irena" glassworks in Inowrocław. From 1959, she represented the Association of Polish Artists and Designers in the Selection Committee of the Glass Industry.
In the 1950s, she designed for the Faience Factory in Włocławek and also designed textiles for the ŁAD Artistic Cooperative. Before and immediately after the war, she also illustrated children’s books. In the 1970s, she made jewelry and ceramic wares in her small ceramics studio located in ul. Walecznych in Warsaw.
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