Oskar Zięta

Architect, process designer, artist.
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The interdisciplinary endeavours of Oskar Zięta seamlessly blend design, art, engineering, and bionics. Each object represents a meticulous study of the properties of metal, techniques for stabilizing it, and optimization of form. They embody the outcomes of complete processes—simultaneously controlled and unrestrained. These are enduring, monomaterial artifacts that are remarkably lightweight. In their artistic forms, they manifest a profound fascination with nature, emerging technologies, and above all, the material itself. He pursued the initial exploration of steel properties at ETH Zurich. Fascinated by constructivism, Zięta posed the question of what the world of bionic metal structures could look like, harnessing the potential of new technologies. Nearly two decades after his first inquiries into steel, he is now hailed as a sculptor 4.0, with his
creations proclaimed “furniture of the future.”

At the core of Zięta’s achievements lies his proprietary method of internal pressure forming of steel, known as FiDU (Freie Innendruck Umformung). It is thanks to FiDU that the iconic objects of the Plopp stool and Ultraleggera chair have come into existence, as well as public sculptures: Wir (2017) at the Galeria Północna in Warsaw, the Nawa city pavilion on Daliowa Island in Wrocław (2017), Hempel in Wrocław (2024), and Whispers in London (2025).

Oskar Zięta's work has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Red Dot Design Award, the Audi Mentor Preis, the Must Have, and the Schweizer Design Preis. In 2019, the NAWA pavilion was nominated for the prestigious Mies van der Rohe Award. Oskar Zięta has collaborated with brands such as Audi,  Architonic, Rado, and Pirelli. His work is found in dozens of museums worldwide, including the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich, the Pinakothek in Munich, the Jerke Museum, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Oskar Zięta resides in Wrocław (Poland), where he runs Zieta Studio.