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OUT OF PASSION FOR ART
Dorota Tworek, CEO, FONTIA Hotel Bristol ****Art & Medical SPA
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hen you talk with Dorota Tworek you can not suspect she has an engineering degree and runs her own building company. Right at the beginning of the conversation she mentions so many areas of interest and activity that one can hardly remember them all. Together with her husband she has been running Dorbud SA, one of the biggest building companies in the Świętokrzyskie province, out of passion for art they have established the New Art Space Foundation, she manages at the same time several big investment projects, is the boss of the Bristol**** Art & Medical SPA in Busko-Zdrój, spends her leisure time taking part in various art and charity projects. She has turned her passion for art into her chief asset, made out of it the value added to various investments connected with art. In September 2014 she marked on the map of the famous BuskoZdrój health resort a new hotel, Bristol**** Art and Medical SPA being an extension of the historical Bristol villa from the end of the 19th century. There are no impossible missions for Dorota Tworek – she proves that even very ambitious goals, can be achieved. As an engineer, she thinks pragmatically focusing on realistic actions and measurable effects, while an artist living inside her prompts her which way to go, which direction to choose to create something unique. The Bristol Hotel, like her owner, defines new standards among hotels. It offers to the guests luxurious interiors enriched by noble mood created by more than 200 works of art. The modern medical centre provides unique treatments based on sulphide water, the natural resources of Busko-Zdrój, as well as individual rehabilitation and kinesitherapy supported by state-of-the-art technologies.
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Natural, luxurious cosmetics are used for spa and wellness treatments helping you to get vitality and beauty back. There are many attractions in the Bristol****Art & Medical SPA, so let’s mention a few. This is the only hotel in Poland where the air is being ionized, so both rooms and hotel spaces are friendly for persons suffering from allergies. The swimming pool, with water purified by nanosilver, a natural germicide, has already a group of regular visitors. This is a very new technology and only a few swimming pools in Poland use it, but being ambitious means that each element of the hotel must be of top quality. The antigravity treadmill based on the technology invented by NASA is a modern device which relieves the body weight up to 80% giving a feeling of weightlessness. It is ideal for patients with lesions across all joints of the lower limbs: the hip, knee and ankle. There are many exercises which can be done only with the help this kind of treadmill – without it they are practically impossible. Artetherapy, or healing with art, is an original programme of therapeutic workshop which helps to restore the peace and harmony. Art is a powerful healer, no doubt. A combination of a study, fireplace room and library is a unique solution for an excellent space for work, meeting and conferences. The terrace on the roof is a fantastic venue for music events of all kinds, for fashion shows and other attractions. The list can be much longer, but this is not the point. Guests are the point, their comfort and satisfaction. Each year the New Art Space Foundation publishes an artist’s calendar. Dorota Tworek and her husband choose an artist and order a set of works, not interfering at all in the artist’s vision. The art is to evoke emotions, so it can happen that her opinion differs form the one of her husband. The
calendar has its place in the Bristol Hotel, a wall in the lobby where 12 works are hung – the work referring to the current month is displayed over the fireplace. The works from the former editions can be found in various parts of the hotel. The hotel itself and the garden around it are the space to present the works created for the “Art in the public space” project. For seven years the couple have been the initiators, organisers and patrons of the art exhibitions in the Artist Square in Kielce. The installations built by the invited artists (Leon Tarasewicz and Robert Kuśmirowski among them) attracted both the local inhabitants and tourists. When asked about new ideas, Dorota Tworek takes a deep breath to mention the ones planned for the nearest future and those being already on the go. In any activity, no matter professional or social or artistic, she is involved full force and this is the source of great satisfaction to her. She doesn’t belabour her defeats, doesn’t look back. The most important thing is to go ahead, to wid• en the horizons, to create new projects.