In his second notebook of the Zakopane Style, Stanisław Witkiewicz, writing about successive villas, stated: ‘The next house, Oksza, originally belonging to the Kossakowskis and then to the Kęszyckis, had a predetermined floor plan, too. The nearly symmetrical layout resulted in the symmetrical shape of the exterior. Oksza has grand entrance doors, whose decorative effect was lost because of the porch’s glass walls. The porch stands on a stone arch and can be entered via the winding side staircase made of sandstone. Oksza is the least complicated of the new Zakopane-style houses. It used decorative and structural motifs which had already been tried out on other houses, with the addition of covered paths around the eastern walls and using a gallery to connect to the two-storey annexe standing in the courtyard.’ (S. Witkiewicz, 1911, ‘Styl zakopiański’, from ‘2: Ciesielstwo’, Lviv, p. 11) Count Marcin Kęszycki bought the villa in 1899 and changed its name to ‘Oksza’. The villa was a gift for the silver wedding of the count and his wife, Helena. On one of the main ceiling beams (ground floor room, to the north of the living-room) is a commemorative inscription: ‘R. P. 1899 d. 7 Lutego odbyło się srebrne wesele Marcina i Heleny z Reyów Kęszyckich’ (‘February 7, 1899, the silver anniversary of Marcin and Helena, née Rey, Kęszycki took place’).