The story is set in the 1970s. (origin New York Times)
Honorata Blicharska, currently 31 years old Polish artist joins her business trip with her husband sculptor Karol Broniatowski to Philadelphia to show his works to galleries.
While her husband was showing the works, Honorata visited a friend in New York. Honorata Blicharska took some of her tapestries and together they tried to hang them on the wall without success, the works fell off the wall.
Then we'll go eat a banana split at the world famous Serendipity 3 (located at 225 East 60th Street) that was loved by Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe and a wave of Hollywood stars.
Honorata told the manager what they had done, he was curious about the tapestries so we took him back to my apartment to show them. He was excited about them, and put them in the Serendipity 3 on the wall.
Miss Blicharska said she had been collecting the magazine's faces for years. In her studio in Warsaw, she photographs the pages and then projects them enlarged. She creates her working design from the enlargement and weaves it on a traditional vertical wooden loom. It takes her about two months to make a large tapestry.
The face of none other than Catherine Deneuve is depicted on the tapestry.
She rose to prominence in 1964, with her role in Les Umbrellas de Cherbourg (Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix). Since then, she has developed into one of the most important women on the French screen and one of the top stars of the international film scene in the late 1960s.
Deneuve is not only active as an actress; she is also a businesswoman of her own production company (1971 - Les Films de la Citrouille ) and model (in the 1980s she was the face for Chanel's perfumes) and has had her own perfume since 1986.
In 1985 she modeled for Marianne, the national symbol of France.
The Broniatowskis have returned to Poland, but the tapestries linger in the 3 Serendipity boutique at 225 East 60th Street.