At the end of 2010 the massive potential of the area was spotted by the young and very enthusiastic artistic visionaries of the city, and a whole host of bars, clubs, alternative music venues, studios, independent design companies and publishing houses started appearing in the area.
Similarly in London or Berlin, OFF continues to attract new local businesses following current trends and fashions. We love the fact that the whole project has taken on its own steam and thrives in the crumbling beauty of the old buildings. The past, the present and the future all coexist without the need for the kind of massive investment which would destroy the place of its cool glamour.

Księży Młyn - Edward Herbst Palace
One of the most intriguing places in Poland, Księży Młyn (Priest's Mill) underwent a massive overhaul and is now open to the public. It is a vast district, which has survived almost unaffected since the period of the flowering of industrial Lodz. In the 19th century, Karol W. Scheibler – one of the biggest manufacturers in Lodz, built an industrial and residential complex, a type of city inside the city. Its urban arrangement and architecture were modeled on English industrial settlements. Księży Młyn is composed of systematically arranged and architecturally uniform factory buildings, a housing estate, mansions of the owners and villas of directors with gardens, as well as streets and railway sidings, a school, two hospitals, a fire brigade depot, a gas-works and a factory club. The quarter is located between ul. Tymienieckiego, Przędzalniana, Fabryczna, Kilińskiego.

Admission to permanent exhibits 6/3zł. Thu free for all exhibits.

















Klubokawiarnia Zmiana tematu, Łódź, ul. Piotrkowska 144




OFF Piotrkowska shows a variety of restaurants in its typical modern industrial interior like I mentioned before. Spółdzielnia with its classical, young and fresh design dominated by geometrical figures styled in black and white colors, attracts young and old foodies.