REFLECTION Exhibition – you cannot try your sense, can you?
When visiting our exhibition REFLECTIONS at the Sotheby´s during the Vienna Design Week 2011 someone could experience both feelings: curiosity and amusement. Even at the opening of the exhibition on 30th September 2011 we have not instructed our guests on how to play with the objects by themselves. But the idea of playing it was easy to guess after some peep holes and a button have been found on just few sheets of the plain wooden boxes. And then after the light was on a beauty of minimalistic monochrome patterns revealed to the eye of the viewer. The black and white patterns reflected under different angles from the high polished ZIETA objects like Multipunkt boards, Chippensteel chair, Plopp stool or a futuristic PIN-Ball made especially to intensify the reflecting effects.
Products made of stainless steel or copper presented a different warmth of the metal. When looking inside at some special angles the products started to disappear, they became invisible and this is when the game became to be more interesting than ever. Just use of simple designs caught in a cube with the objects within made it possible to create an illusion of kaleidoscope that changed its picture every time when peeping inside. Dully looking wooden boxes were hiding a fairy tale that needed to be discovered and caught by an eye or a camera of the viewer!
The exhibition has been shown until 8th October 2011 in Vienna but its great welcome proved that it needs to be shown to others that love to play with their senses!
We wished You could have seen it with Your own eyes!
Chippensteel inox
Plopp standard inox
Pin Ball
Exhibition- Boxes
Plopp standard and Rondo inox
VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2011: REFLECTIONS EXHIBITION
1., Sotheby’s, 1., Palais Wilczek
Herrengasse 5
Vienna (Austria)
30.9.–8.10., Mon–Fri 9:00–17:00
Opening: Fri 30.9., 17:30
Specially for this year’s design festival in Vienna (Vienna Design Week 2011) Oskar Zięta proposed a new and unusual way of perception in design. His idea Reflections is like a kaleidoscope able to boost our possibilities of looking at objects while exposing the mystery of vision and understanding. This lively installation was developed thanks to use of refined boxes, closed from all side walls decorated by different patterns and reflecting on their inner surface some entrapped objects put inside. Reflections is one-of-kind invitation to peculiar world of illusion. Peepholes on the boxes are at different heights and diverse angles.
The visitors can experience a sneak view of what is inside them: the well known furniture pieces by Zieta produced with the Fidu Technology, are caged inside a trap and hunted by the light. Like in Alice in the Wonderland - nothing is as it looks like. Design is transformed into a perception tool and reconstructs the world in which both: objects and the materials could be perceived in variety of ways. The Polish designer holds a lens towards the reality of design shifting the view and changing the perception. The observers become the explorers: through the peep-holes they can reach just a limited view as their eyes receive a distorted picture of the space and the pattern reflecting on the metal surface giving back a confused image of the piece of furniture.
Does Oskar Zięta and his team reveal a new, unprecedented and unexpected technique to work with metals? Is the aim of Zieta to show the fascinating process of possible, unreal, deformation of the metals? Is it the art of the camouflage which makes objects invisible and plays with surfaces and dimensions? Yes, Oskar Zięta and his team are giving a try to make steel invisible. The nature and mimicry are the main inspirations. The Polish designer’s objects are more that the final products. They become the tools which jeer at vision and turning this design exhibition into a discovery, surprise and disquieting experience. Delimitation, fusion of the patterns, changing surfaces, and the reflections depend on the chosen metal: stainless steel appears to be colder and copper warmer. But it is just a visually confusing game, isn’t it?
The exhibition is curated by Maria Cristina Didero.
HAMBURG STILWERK 2011: limited editions gallery
25th Aug 2011 vernissage
26th Aug – 22nd Oct 2011 exhibition
In the last days of August ZIETA Prozessdesign experienced a grand opening of the ZIETA collections´ exhibition at the Stilwerk limited edition design gallery. The vernissage was a good opportunity to meet great admirers of Oskar Zieta works, friends, design and technology enthusiasts and among others also readers of the A&W magazine which has its hub in Hamburg. The editorial team of the Architektur&Wohnen magazine that awarded Oskar with the Audi Mentor Prize were invited as special guests.
The exhibition is held in a very beautiful, airy and white spaces of the limited editions gallery in the 7th floor of Stilwerk building. This pure ambience gave us an opportunity to build the focus on the object itself, its remarkable deformations, shades or the clear painting or polishing.
It is for the first time when the whole collection of standard products like the iconic Plopp stool or the Chippensteel 0.5 chair and the limited or special editions using special materials i.e. copper are being shown together.
Additionally in the very centre of the gallery on the podium the visitors can watch the genesis of the ZIETA collection which is a variety of prototypes, samples and tests in FiDU technology produced in order to achieve a completed object. Those worn out and rusted pieces are the soul of the collection. And thanks to them it is possible to understand the long way of researching, prototyping and testing in FiDU that paved the way for the result we can enjoy today. It is kind of a specific memento of our long and difficult journey of controlling the process of metal shaping which is still unfinished. Our purpose by that was to show how we have evolved in the meantime, what eventually we have achieved and by closer looking where are we going.
The exhibition is open from August 26th to 22nd October 2011 at the Stilwerk limited editions gallery in Hamburg.
STILWERK DESIGN GALLERY, VIENNA
The stilwerk design gallery by Engelhorn & Turkiewicz in Vienna presents our FiDU objects from limited edition and standard collection, such as the Chippensteel chair or the Plopp stool lacquered, next to much anticipated Phantom table designed by highly esteemed GRAFT architects and other pieces designed by Ross Lovegrove, Robert Stadler, Polka or Viennese design team mischer’traxler.
The exhibition is trying to answer a question: What is pragmatic design and what is art?
Te main purpose of the gallery of Klaus Engelhorn & Michael Turkiewicz is to present and confront objects that are on the verge of art and functional design pieces. The goal of this gallery is the presentation of unique renowned international designers as well as historical pieces, and special editions of the young Austrian design scene.
Karena Schuessler Gallery showed our limited edition products: Chippensteel chairs and tables design by Oskar Zieta and Lutz Huening at the Design Basel from 13 to 18 June 2011. This time our chair was one of the faces of the festival and has been printed on the official press materials!
Design Basel is one of the most prestigious design and art events. Best galleries from all over the world show their current pieces or organize unique exhibitions of single and limited editions. Chippensteel chairs and Plopp stools designed by Oskar Zieta and produced in limited amounts are shown by Karena Shuessler Gallery from Berlin.
FiDU technology, developed by Oskar Zieta at the ETH Zurich, helps produce unique objects efficiently, and so the unique, one-of-a-kind design is closer to people.
Our unique editions are an effect of our research of the use of other materials than steel in FiDU. We learn how to control the deformed sheets for copper, brass or aluminium. Because each material has different parameters, we need to cut it, weld it in a different way and put other parameters to the internal pressure deformation, to be able to control the form. Even the way different kinds of metals are made has influence on their behaviour during the inflation.
The experiments lead us to the better knowledge about different materials so we can further develop FiDU and design more advanced and more customized constructions.
Karena Shuessler gallery at the Design Basel 2011. photo courtesy: Design Miami/Basel
Karena Shuessler gallery at the Design Basel 2011. photo courtesy: Andreas Grahl
DMY 2011
01-05 June 2011
One of the experimental Chippensteel chairs and the Plopp stools were shown at the DMY International stand during the DMY 2011 in Berlin. We are always very glad to participate in events like this with other innovative and creative young designers.
More about DMY: http://dmy-berlin.com/en
DMY ASIA TOUR 2010
01-05 June 2011
Our products were included in the DMY Asia Tour 2010. With other products, they were shown during the design events in countries including Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and Thailand.
The show was focused on fresh, innovative products and so our Plopp stools, Chippensteel chairs and Multipunkt magnet boards are designed and produced using the unique FiDU technology, which allows to create unique shapesand one of a kind objects efficiently, using the computerized design process and robotic production.
To showcase how we learn about the ‘controlled loss of control’ while deforming steel sheets with internal pressure we also involved one of the prototypes of Chippensteel chairs as an evolution between first trial objects to the final Chippensteel chair that is produced now. On an example of a chair one can see, that predictability of the final form in FiDU is a thing to learn.
The DMY Asia Tour exhibition was also showed at the DMY Berlin 2011 from 01 to 05 June, which was the third time for Zieta Prozessdesign. The year before, Zieta Prozessdesigned organized an exhibition ‘Blow Up’ with ETH Zurich, to show the previous experiments, engineering objects and design objects in FiDU.
The events that the exhibition took part in:
Taiwan Designers Week in Taipei: 03.09 - 12.09
Seoul Design Fair: 17.09 - 07.10
Designtide Tokyo: 30.10 - 03.11
Bangkok Design Festival: 20.11 - 30.11
Seoul Design Festival: 08.12 - 12.12
Taiwan Design Expo: 11.12 - 19.12
INDUSTRIOUS ARTEFACTS, ZUIDERZEE MUSEUM
27.05.2011 - 12.02.2012
Zuiderzee Museum in Enkhuizen oranized and exhibition called Industrious Artefacts. It is all about different crafts and how they evolved through the years. Our FiDU technology is also one of the modern crafts, which enables us to make useful, beautiful objects in a unique ways. We have been asked by the curators: Rianne Makking and Jurgen Bey, from the Makking and Bey studio to show Chippensteel chair and a Plopp stool among other old and new crafts' representatives.
Here are some images from the exhibition and we warmly encourage to come and visit until the 12.02.2012.
YOUNG CREATIVE POLAND: In Production, Fieramilano, Salone del Mobile 2011.
Curated by Anka Simone and Miska Lovegrove.
Our exhibition at the Fiera, curated by Anka Simone and Miska Lovegrove, showed our latest collection of furniture. The designs in FiDU technology are a part of a research on metal-sheets stabilization. Each of them discovers new features and material behaviour during the forming process by inner pressure. The unique bends and waves that will contribute to the world of ultralight, customized, short-series produced constructions are tested on the everyday products which are a perfect showcase of the innovative technology.
The topic of our collection is "Controlled loss of control". In FiDU technology objects are made using only two thin steel sheets, by cutting and welding the sheets together and then deforming by pressure, to reach the stable form. The details and pieces are learnt and developed together by a team of engineers, designers, machines' construction specialists, production technologies' specialists, material science specialists, architects and artists.
The exhibition took place in hall 6, stand F34, from 12th to 17 April
Image courtesy: Jan Lutyk
Our inflation shows gathered many guests! One of the inflated products was our new coat hanger tatarak which is rolled and delivered in a small package and then can be inflated at home!
NOC Z DESIGNEM 2011
9.06.2011
For the third time in a row, Domar, an interior design focused department store in Wroclaw, organized an event called 'A night with Design'. Oskar Zieta took part in a discussion concerning the future of Polish design and he showed how to produce our innovative products live. Guests could take part in the inflation.
Domar is a gallery where we exhibit our products in Wroclaw.
We could see that kids like especially Plopp Mini, and that men are interested in the technological aspect: in the photo you can see Ryszard and Michal Balcerkiewicz from NOTI and a Polish designer Piotr Kuchcinski.
ZIETA BAZAIR exhibition. Salone del Mobile 2011. Cardi Black Box gallery.
Curated by Maria Cristina Didero and Art at Work.
The exhibition at the Cardi Black Box gallery, curated by Maria Cristina Didero and Art at Work, during the Salone 2011 was a great opportunity to develop the new edition of unique products. Working on FiDU technology is all about experimenting with new materials, finishes, to find new possibilities of use for the technology.
This time we wanted to show that our design can be even lighter and that it is really easy to take away.
The balloons filled with helium were enough to carry 1kg of Plopp made in aluminium Image courtesy: Simona Cupoli
We are researching how to produce, how to transport, how to plan more efficient processes. What if design and constructions of the future could be transported rolled or flat and made usable when needed? What if they were so light, that they could be transported by a balloon? What if they could be produced in small customized series? This is what FiDU technology allows for. In the world of the changing needs, we want to give more freedom to move and to build more customized forms.
The super-unique Plopp in aluminium is a manifest of new possibilities - efficient production process but also flexibility to use different metals and finishes to make a product one of a kind. We wanted to keep the pure and dreamy mood of this futuristic bazaar where you can buy a product per kilo. The basics of the exhibition were to use a material and a finish we have never used before to make a new limited series of products for the gallery.
The Plopps were covered with a unique, pearl lacquer. Image courtesy: Simona Cupoli
Our great challenge was to work with aluminium and to learn FiDU technology in this material, so we decided to develop Plopp in aluminium, as a showcase of an even more ultra-light construction. Normally Plopp stool can carry up to 2,5t which is not needed for a stool. We could easily rationalize and lower the possible load of the stool by producing it in aluminium. It also lowered its weight which is great for the transport costs and for the convenience of use.
To show this new feature and to tell a story in a funny and light way we decided to hang the Plopps on the meteorological balloons. Also to let people imagine it as a kind of a dreamy transportation method.
Fragile surfaces like Inox steel or copper need special protection to avoid scratches. For Inox steel and for material other than copper, we use knitted linen. It is natural, fits the shape of the stool and protects it very well. Especially for the Zieta BazAir exhibition for the Cardi Black Box, we decided to use linen covers as the only packaging. The Pearl Plopps made of Aluminium are very light – they are able to hang on the balloons during the exhibition. It is no problem for the customer to take a Plopp home, using a special handle designed in the linen cover.
From left: 1. Oskar with Bianca Balti, photo by D. Venturelli 2. Oskar with Maarten Baas, photo by D. Venturelli, 3. Oskar with Ross Lovegrove and Tokujin Yoshioka.
rom left: 1. Nicolo Cardi, photo by D. Venturelli 2. Ross Lovegrove, photo by D. Venturelli, 3. Oskar Zieta, photo by D. Venturelli.
The material research shown at Cardi Black Box:
We learn how to handle different materials during the inflation process. Each of them gives different technological and visual characteristics.
We play with the lightness and softness of Aluminium, with the solidity and fluidity of Copper, with roughness and durability of galvanized surfaces, with many coatings that can change the form and the material in different ways. We wanted to show how fun it is and how, step by step, we can fully control the inflated forms and the effect, ambient and new possibility delivered by them.
Because of the different material characteristics, sheets of different metals like steel, aluminium or copper behave in a different way when welded and inflated. They create their own bumps and dents. They bend more fluently or more sharply. We want to control the form perfectly for each metal while keeping their uniqueness and their natural behaviour, which gives them their durability and strength - it is a part of our 'controlled loss of control approach'.
Polished copper and sandblasted aluminium
Galvanized and rusted steel
Lacquered steel and electropolished stainless steel
On the 1st floor of the gallery we have shown our limited editions of products - Chippensteel chairs, Plopp stools in copper, Rondo mirrors, Pins, Rondels and Kamms in copper and experimental pieces of Plopps in different materials.
LIFE IN 3D. ART TERRARIUM EXHIBITION, BWA OLSZTYN
Plopps on Life in 3D. Art Terrarium.
The exhibition "Life in 3D. Art Terrarium showing pieces of contemporary design by young artists.
14th April - 26th May. BWA Art Gallery, Olsztyn, Poland.
"LIFE IN 3D. Art Terrarium" exhibition. Image courtesy: Galeria Sztuki BWA, Olsztyn, Poland
"LIFE IN 3D. Art Terrarium" exhibition. Image courtesy: Galeria Sztuki BWA, Olsztyn, Poland
BALLANTINE'S 12, ART OF BEYOND EXHIBITION, NETTIE HORN GALERY, LONDON
The Ballantine’s 12 bar was created in March 2011 for the Ballantine’s 12 Art of Beyond event in London. Different parts of the interior were designed by different artists – stools by Lee Broom, lights by Creatmosphere, floor by Jovo Bozhinovski, glasses by Rolph Sachs and walls by Luis Galliusi..
Zieta Prozessdesign were commissioned to design a bar.
Oskar Zieta's words best describe the concept:
Everything about the process of producing Ballantine’s 12 inspired me – the distillation, pressing, warming up, boiling, evaporating, cooling down, and liquefying. I work with innovative production processes every day and to be able to combine my design language with the ideas inherent in Ballantine’s 12 seemed very attractive. I compared the process of making Ballantine’s 12 whisky’s to the material stabilizing process, experimenting with internal pressure to make steel ‘melt’ . This inspired me to reverse the regular process of inflation that I use, and to turn it into an implosion to stabilize the ultra-thin material. Even though the process is industrial, the overall look is of melting ice cubes. It will work as a false mirror so that everything around it will melt too. It is great to show another face of the free deformation possibilities in my FiDU technology and its flexibility to serve as a construction, design and a communication for great brands like Ballantine’s 12.
The video showing the production technology, which is a reverse of our usually technology of inflating steel in FiDU technology. The cubes are heated to 700 degrees and then suddenly cooled down which causes the implosion and the effect of melting.
"Dziecinada" exhibition, including the Plopps Mini, was shown as a part of Children's Festival during the Biennale di Venezia, from 26.02 to 08.03.2011. The Mini Plopps are painted in many eye-catching colours and their small size is perfect for children. The Mini Plopp was created as a smaller version of the Plopp stool. The three sizes of Plopp - mini, standard and kitchen, are together a showcase of flexibility of forming in FiDU technology, allowing for the efficient production of short series of products without moulds.
Our Chippensteel chair in inox /stainless steel/ was shown on Material Xperience Exhibition by Materia in Utrecht, as a showcase of the innovative approach to the use of steel sheets and to the production processes. Chippensteel is one of the milestones in the research on FiDU technology that helps explore how thin metal sheets behave while forming using free inner pressure and how to control the form to use it as a fully usable element. The chair is offered in two versions in limited edition in raw steel, inox steel and in copper and, as a Chippensteel 0.5, in an open edition.
