Oskar Zieta
Oskar Zieta's airy furniture
Oskar Zieta says he woke up one night and had an idea: could one inflate steel? For the young designer and keen experimenter no was never an answer. And so he started searching for a practicable answer.
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
This took several years, studying architecture in Stettin and Zurich, where he still has a professorship today. The focus is “Computer Aided Architectural Design” CAAD for short.

Oscar Zieta was born in 1975 in Poland. Through his research work he landed a real coup. Steel is inflatable, thanks to FiDU! The abbreviation stands for a process developed by Zieta. Through a high pressure interior conversion he can make the heavy material appear completely light.
Oskar Zieta develops chairs, benches and other seating furniture out of steel, which end up resembling coloured balloons.
He became famous with “Plopp”, a three legged steel stool, on which one can sit very comfortably.
The fascinating thing about Zieta's multi award winning designs is the cheeky deception manoeuvre. With childlike curiosity the viewer pounces on the object, expecting it to be soft. But the actual seat enlightens: one is seated on steel with a load bearing capacity of up to two tons.
Oskar Zieta's computer generated development procedures bring forth an ironic, sensuous product. The steel objects entice with a childlike fat-cheeked outer shell, whilst on the inside they are full of calculated know how.

Even with his rational inventor's spirit, Oskar Zieta manages to retain the erotic in design. Who else manages to let people levitate sitting down as elegantly as he.