Such uniformity of Polish pavilion combined with the high quality of the presented artwork was awarded with many prizes. Because of that, there are some inaccuracies when it comes to their actual amount. According to Jerzy Warchałowski Polish exhibits won 189 prizes, among them: 36 Grand-Prix prizes, 31 honorary diplomas, 60 gold medals. What is more, Poland got the biggest amount of Grand-Prix prizes in interior design projects (6) and in the textile section, ex aequo with Austria (7). Mieczysław Tretera, on the other hand, counted 172 awards. He explained it by stating that there were actually 251 Polish exhibitors officially registered. He excluded 56 art schools’ professors from the count who did not receive any prizes. The third comment, comes from Anna M. Dexler and Andrzej K. Olszewski. They calculated the biggest amount of 205 awards, including: 35 Grand Prix prizes, 31 honorary diplomas, 70 gold medals, 56 silver medals and 13 brown medals.

  Other notable contestants were the students of the Zakopane school. They were awarded for wooden statuettes, referring to the art of Podhale region.

  Nevertheless, the greatest successes for Poles was the purchase of Szczepkowski's Chapel of Nativity by the French Government. He was awarded with the Grand Prix and Legion of Honour. It was the start of the busiest period in his career.

  Warchałowski considered the Chapel to be perfectly in tune with folk doctrine, inspired by the style of Zakopane and folklore themes. At the same time, it remained modern, fresh.

  As it was mentioned earlier, the Chapel was purchased by the French Government, though they paid the third of the prearranged prize (total of 25 000 francs). Szczepkowski wanted to display it in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Louvre or in one of the churches in Paris. Ultimately it was placed in a Polish Church in Dourges. The town is in the Pas-de-Calais region, about a hundred kilometers from Paris.