One night the Polish designer Oscar Zieta had a sudden inspiration for an extraordinary project - and a singular design as well. Just awoken he asked himself if it could be possible to inflate steel, a task he applied himself to in the period following.

Thanks to his technical knowledge that he acquired during his studies of architecture in Stettin and Zurich and furtheron broadened during postgraduate studies of computer aided architectural design - in short CAAD - he rose to the challenge.

In scientific research work he developed a procedure to inflate two sheets of steel, each one 0,8 mm thick and welded together, in a way that the surfaces are curving gently.

His patent applied for as FIDU- technology allows an absolutely new way of designing metal furniture. His objects seem to be blown up like swimming rings. Oskar Zieta´s chairs, stools and benches are inviting

to sit on and have the air of being soft although they are extremely resilient.

The particular attention he pays to the different finishes of surfaces generates a lot of different aesthetical effects: His tripod stools ‚PLOPP‘, enameled in strong colours, have a more naive vibe, whereas the same design with a golden Teflon-coating looks precious and luxurious.

His ‚CHIPPENSTEEL‘ chair comes in different variations - looking quite cool in reflecting, shinily polished Inox, in greyish steel with a transparent varnish that shows off the marks of the production process - adding a more industrial look - and in glossy copper, a noble metal rarely used in furniture design.

The combination of technological know-how, his joy in experiments and his exurberant imagination enable Oskar Zieta to create a design that seems to emerge from the materials itself.

Being a true engineer/designer he cherishes an affinity to these materials that equals the same design ethics which were the trademarks of icons like Jean Prouvé, Serge Mouille or Mathieu Mategot. And like these heroes of design Oskar Zieta retains a bias towards a lucious design.