Agata Calka from Amber-Ring from Otwock won 184 votes in Internet voting in the Ambermart Galery 2008 competition and an honourable menton of Ambermart fair.
 Agata Calka represents the second generation of jewellery designers and manufacturers. Their decorations combine inspirations of nature with simple, geometrical forms and that is why they have a unique character. A long-standing experience in the trade resulted in working out their own methods of amber processing.
And this is what the designer says about herself and her fascination for amber: “The first amber man in the family was my father, Mieczyslaw Elis, who at the beginning of the 70’s opened a workshop in Pilawa in his house at the street which was later called Amber Street. There me and my husband took our first steps in this profession, a difficult one but providing a lot of satisfaction. After a few years of “training” in the family workshop we decided to set up our own company and at the end of the 90’s the Amber-Ring company was created and has successfully existed till now.
During AMBERMART 2005 fair, in the Designers’ Gallery I presented a jewellery under my own name for the first time. At the same fair this year I decided to take part – for the first time – in the Ambermart Gallery competition, and an honourable mention, which I won there, I treat as my big success. Designing jewellery I actually do not create closed collections but once in a while I come back to the subjects taken up earlier, trying to interpret them once again in a different way. It is a bit similar to the waves of the sea: they regularly come back to the same beach, each time leaving a different pattern on the sand. Thinking about future I have a defence of my diploma project in view (I have already started working on its conception), next fairs and who knows, maybe taking part in another competitions. And in the nearer future I just plan to work on my next jewellery designs, which I love doing. I hope that I will not lack creative powers. After all I can always come back in my thoughst to the roots, close my eyes and feel resinous smell of fired amber, which was present in my father’s workshop, where as a child I used to play with lumps of amber. Because although I have an adolescent daughter myself, I feel that somewhere deep inside I still have this first, child’s fascination for amber. That somewhere deep inside I am still this girl from Amber Street.” 2008-09-12 | 
