Marymont with a view of the forest. Terra Casa closes the third chapter of the Art Deco line

The smallest and most boutique of the Warsaw Art Deco projects

Art Deco Marymont is the smallest of the developer's Warsaw projects in this line — following Art Deco Apartamenty in Wola and Art Deco Mokotów. The building rose at 59 Podleśna Street, directly adjacent to the Lasek Bielański nature reserve, with convenient access to the Marymoncka transport hub and the Słodowiec metro station. The architectural design was handled by the Warsaw-based Kazimierski i Ryba architecture studio, and the general contractor was Przedsiębiorstwo Budowlane Unimax. Construction began in 2023; the project received its occupancy permit in April 2025, and most of the apartments had found buyers before the official opening.

The structure comprises five above-ground storeys including the ground floor and one underground level. In the sales offer, prices started above one million PLN — the smallest unit, a two-room flat of around 45 m² on the ground floor, was priced at close to 1.17 million PLN, while the three-room apartments exceeded 66 m². This is a ceiling characteristic of Warsaw's premium segment, where the price per square metre now starts at 20–25 thousand PLN, and floor area is secondary to address, finish quality and the character of the place. Proximity to the forest and the nature reserve — a resource that is all but unrepeatable in the city — is a price-forming argument in its own right.

Intimacy instead of mass repetition

The scale of the project is deliberately limited: 34 apartments and an underground garage with 42 parking spaces. Instead of the volume typical of the development market, Terra Casa opted for amenities befitting top-tier properties — a private mini-gym on the ground floor, a handsfree system allowing movement through the common areas without a key, lockers for the remote collection of courier parcels and a bike-servicing station in the entrance zone. Residents' security rests on biometric access control (for which the developer works with the company Fermax) and remote monitoring.

The technical layer goes hand in hand with energy-efficient solutions: an in-house photovoltaic installation powering the common areas, LED lighting with motion sensors and a rainwater recovery system for watering the greenery. These are not incidental features — in industry conversations, the president of Terra Casa points to energy self-sufficiency and "hidden luxury" as expectations that, in the premium segment, have ceased to be an add-on and become a standard.

The detail that builds identity

Yet it is the detail that determines the building's character. The interiors of the common areas were kept in the spirit of classic art déco — with fine materials, geometric mosaics of semi-precious stones and 24-carat gold, and hand-picked wall lamps inspired by the aesthetics of the 1930s. This stylistic language is not an ornament but a consistently repeated "signature" of the brand. "Bearing in mind the idea of the sister-city relationship between Chicago and Warsaw, at Marymont we delivered another apartment building referencing the art déco style of Chicago and the streamline moderne of pre-war Warsaw," said Artur Tłustochowski, president of the management board of Terra Casa, adding that the building and its interiors met with a very good reception from clients.

An opening as a diplomatic event

The official opening, held on 28 May 2025, was aligned by the developer with the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw–Chicago partnership — a relationship that has continued unbroken since 1960, when the Polish capital became Chicago's first sister city. The gala was hosted by Marcin Prokop, and the guests included representatives of Chicago Sister Cities International, the Polish-American Chamber of Commerce in Chicago, the US Embassy and the authorities of the Bielany district. Framing of this kind — combining architecture, municipal diplomacy and art — is a recognisable element of Terra Casa's communication, building a narrative around the project that reaches beyond the transaction itself.

Closing one stage, heralding the next

Marymont closes one chapter and heralds the next. The developer is already building the line's next project — Art Deco Mokotów on Biała Koniczyna Street, whose first stage, the POLA building, is inspired by the figure of Pola Negri. The consistency with which Terra Casa develops the same concept across successive districts means that every new project draws on the experience of its predecessors and strengthens the brand's recognition in Warsaw's premium segment — a category in which, after the dynamic years of 2023–2025, 2026 is being billed as a "year of reckoning", with price growth slowing to 3–5 per cent a year. In such a market environment, a repeatable product identity becomes a real advantage.