Zieta BazAir
The young designer Oskar Zieta, born in Poland in 1975, lives and works in Switzerland. He
has the typical features of a boy from the East but he works with the same precision of the well
known Swiss clocks. Zieta moved to Switzerland to work as a researcher and teacher at ETH,
Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich with a master in Computer Aided Architectural Design
(CAAD) in his pockets. During his PHD he developed the FIDU technology (Frei Innen Druck
Umformung - Free Inner Pressure Deformation) able to transform flat moulded surfaces made
by two plates of steel, previously welded together, in startling tridimensional objects thanks to
the injection of a powerful injection of compressed air. With a interdisciplinary projectual method
in the middle between science and intuition, in 2007 Oskar Zieta optimizes his FIDU, gives birth
to a colourful collection of chairs, tables, lamps and stools that are sold all over the world, and
founds his company the zieta prozessdesign, in Wroclaw.
This is the arrangement of events and now the contents of his work. The whole Zieta family is involved at top speed in his project and is actively dedicated to the prodigal son's dream to make his design exclusive, identifiable and distinctive, a dream become true. His dad oversees the correct operations of the production machines; his mother is in charge of manufacture and packaging (even of refined handmade products); his sister deals with marketing and manages the studio and his wife, a lawyer, writes the sales and collaboration contracts of the zieta prozessdesign. What you call a family business.
For Cardi Black Box gallery Oskar Zieta used his format project of the famous stool Plopp in stainless steel set in an unusual and ironic scenery for this spectacular and interactive installation. This self service of design is made possible by two factors expressly studied for the Milanese presentation: a feather-lite production in aluminum that makes the pieces easy to carry but at the same time solid and resistant, and the research on colours for the unpublished pearly finishing. Zieta BazAir plays with the idea of open air Middle Eastern markets where you pick your own good and you often find unexpected objects. The Pearl Plopps of Zieta BazAir float in midair. To suspend the stools in the space of this futurist bazar Zieta hanged up the pieces to a multitude of white balloons: who wants to own one of them is invited to help himself. To tell the spectacular productive process of the Plopp at the first floor of the gallery are also available some empty templates (flat shapes with no air) that the audience can blow autonomously with a compressor.
Like in every considerable market you also have miniature souvenirs: as precious as jewels, the Pearl Pins create a vertical sculpture on the walls of the gallery: the Pins, in the same pearly finishing of the stools, were created as coat hanger but could become decorative elements to underline the flexibility and the potential of the work of the designer, always oriented to experimentation, to innovations but above all, to optimize the resources with special care for the functionality. To complete the project there's a special packaging tailor made that embellish the object making also the transportation easier: an hand-crafted linen custody that emphasizes the double valence of the entire work of the Polish designer in which seriality meets exclusivity. The project Zieta BazAir at Cardi Black Box gallery is focused on lightness, soft tones, self-made and sustainability. His last production in aluminum is, in fact, entirely recyclable and the technology used for the production has a low ecological impact: first rate design.
text by Maria Cristina Didero
This is the arrangement of events and now the contents of his work. The whole Zieta family is involved at top speed in his project and is actively dedicated to the prodigal son's dream to make his design exclusive, identifiable and distinctive, a dream become true. His dad oversees the correct operations of the production machines; his mother is in charge of manufacture and packaging (even of refined handmade products); his sister deals with marketing and manages the studio and his wife, a lawyer, writes the sales and collaboration contracts of the zieta prozessdesign. What you call a family business.
For Cardi Black Box gallery Oskar Zieta used his format project of the famous stool Plopp in stainless steel set in an unusual and ironic scenery for this spectacular and interactive installation. This self service of design is made possible by two factors expressly studied for the Milanese presentation: a feather-lite production in aluminum that makes the pieces easy to carry but at the same time solid and resistant, and the research on colours for the unpublished pearly finishing. Zieta BazAir plays with the idea of open air Middle Eastern markets where you pick your own good and you often find unexpected objects. The Pearl Plopps of Zieta BazAir float in midair. To suspend the stools in the space of this futurist bazar Zieta hanged up the pieces to a multitude of white balloons: who wants to own one of them is invited to help himself. To tell the spectacular productive process of the Plopp at the first floor of the gallery are also available some empty templates (flat shapes with no air) that the audience can blow autonomously with a compressor.
Like in every considerable market you also have miniature souvenirs: as precious as jewels, the Pearl Pins create a vertical sculpture on the walls of the gallery: the Pins, in the same pearly finishing of the stools, were created as coat hanger but could become decorative elements to underline the flexibility and the potential of the work of the designer, always oriented to experimentation, to innovations but above all, to optimize the resources with special care for the functionality. To complete the project there's a special packaging tailor made that embellish the object making also the transportation easier: an hand-crafted linen custody that emphasizes the double valence of the entire work of the Polish designer in which seriality meets exclusivity. The project Zieta BazAir at Cardi Black Box gallery is focused on lightness, soft tones, self-made and sustainability. His last production in aluminum is, in fact, entirely recyclable and the technology used for the production has a low ecological impact: first rate design.
text by Maria Cristina Didero
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