Oskar Zieta, the poster boy for contemporary Polish design, has filled Milan’s Cardi Black Box Gallery with 50 helium balloons, with a Plopp stool hanging from each. The stunt, inspired by the animated film Up (2009), is to show off the lightness of the latest version of the blow-up metal furniture that made the designer’s name. “The new stools are made of aluminium painted in pearl,” says Zieta, who also presented at the Milan Furniture Fair as part of the Young Creative Poland collective. “We want to show that the design is now much lighter but is still a durable form of construction.”
Plopp, originally designed in stainless steel for Danish manufacturer HAY in 2008, is made using free internal pressure forming technology, or FIDU: a pocket of thin metal sheets is inflated at high pressure to create a three-dimensional form. “In FIDU, the great matter is how you control the form. Because it’s an uncontrolled process, you never know what the final result will be,” says Zieta. The technique, developed by Zieta as part of his research into computer-controlled machineryat the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, has bred a whole range of ultra-light products with the same distinctive look: bulging shiny surfaces reminiscent of Jeff Koons’ balloon sculptures...
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