Description:
<jats:p>The paper focuses on a private collection of
woodworking tools created in Warsaw in 1982–2020,
covering over 400 items, mainly Polish, but also German,
Austrian, English, French, and American. It presents the
genesis of the collection, methods of its development,
internal structure, and the collection study modes.
The presentation is accompanied by comments dealing
with the importance of a collection of tools, or more broadly
of items not widely considered to be socially prestigious,
seen against the phenomenon of collecting perceived as
an element of ‘luxury consumption for show’, as well as by
the first attempts at comparing collecting realities and the
position of woodworking tools in the hierarchy of museum
objects in Poland and European countries.
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