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SUMMARY:Polish Designers at Material Matters London 15-17 September
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DESCRIPTION:Polish design practices Zieta Studio and Pani Jurek Studio will each
present material innovation at Material Matters London with their
air-sculpted steel and colour-shifting ceramics.
Returning for its fifth London edition from 15-17 September 2026, Material
Matters London presents its new home UNLOCKED in the heart of Shoreditch
Design Week (SDW), as part of the annual London Design Festival.
Zieta Studio and Pani Jurek Studio will accompany around 40 exhibitors each
selected for their commitment to material intelligence. Funded by Creative
Industries Institute and the Polish Cultural Institute in London in
collaboration with On&On Designs, the two installations bring the works
of these two Polish studios into Shoreditch exploring materiality and
Polish creativity.
This fifth iteration of this cross-media platform for material intelligence
in architecture and design includes a dedicated ‘Cafe Conversations’
talks programme with thought leadership partner Berghaus - and will host
these two Polish studios for a dedicated panel on Polish design. 
Zieta Studio presents ‘Whispers Bench’ lit by a constellation of Inox
Lampin lighting pieces. 
Zięta will present the unique Whispers Bench with illuminated lighting at
the fair's entrance - a moment of pause for the arriving visitors.
Architect and designer Oskar Zięta is known internationally for his
innovation with FiDU - a process of free internal deformation that enables
an ‘inflation’ of flat steel into complex structural forms. The
Whispers Bench is an element from the public sculpture Whispers, sited at
Ludgate Hill, Fleet Street Quarter, London (with iterations also shown at
Maison&Objet Paris 2026, Impact '26 Poznań, ICFF NYC'26 and LFA’26).

First shown at the London Festival of Architecture 2025, the piece extends
the sculpture's dialogue with the surrounding city and will welcome
visitors at the entrance lobby, lit by Zięta's constellation of Lampin
lighting pieces. These selected pieces embody Zięta’s structural way of
thinking, representing a precise spatial record of pressure, time, and
resistance.
“These forms emerge from a dialogue with the material and its internal
forces, balancing a ‘controlled loss of control’ at a specific point of
creation,” says Oskar Zięta head of Zieta Studio, “Whispers began as a
public sculpture, and at Material Matters it becomes something more
intimate; a bench, a resting point, a place to pause inside the same
structural language as you enter the fair“. 
Pani Jurek Studio presents ‘OP Ceramic Modular System’
Warsaw-based Pani Jurek Studio, run by Magda Jurek and Michał Borecki
works at the intersection of ceramics, architecture and material culture,
experimenting with fired-clay as an object that is both craft and a spatial
element. 
They will present their distinctive OP Ceramic Modular System from the OP
Object collection. An interactive structure composed of ceramic tiles that
rotate around their own axes, creating open space dividers or mounted
modular wall compositions; a living image that responds to users. It is an
exploration of the relationship between colour and light as inseparable
features where light creates colour and changes the relationships between
colours. When the pieces are placed in a space, they form a living
composition in which human presence plays a crucial role. Created
especially for the Common Ground: Curated Connections exhibition at
Fletcher Priest Architects, the piece will now occupy the grand entrance to
Material Matters’ interior gallery.
“The OP objects are a tribute to colour, its ability to surprise,
transform and delight and a way to shed light,“, say Magda Jurek and
Michał Borecki, of Pani Jurek Studio. “Bringing the OP Collection to
London lets us test our ideas about colour and light in a completely new
space. Material Matters gathers people who think seriously about materials
and is exactly the kind of conversation we want to have around our
ceramics.”
“Polish design has an incredible depth of material knowledge and
experimentation. Material Matters provides the ideal platform for the work
of Zieta Studio and Pani Jurek to engage with London’s design community
and gain wider international recognition.” say Anka Simone and Joanna
Caron-Delion, Founders, On&On Designs. 
“Supporting Polish designers on international stages such as Material
Matters is central to our mission. Zieta Studio and Pani Jurek represent
two very different, but equally rigorous approaches to materials and we are
proud to help bring this conversation to London within Shoreditch Design
Week“, says Anna Tryc-Bromley, Polish Cultural Institute in London.
As part of the Café Conversations series, Agata Zięta from Zieta Studio
and Michal Borecki from Pani Jurek will join a panel discussion entitled
‘Local Knowledge, Global Design: Poland's creative industries’ with
Samta Nadeem, Curatorial Director at STIR and Grant Gibson, founder of
Material Matters (15 September 4pm). The talk will explore process-led
making and material intelligence in Polish design. Collectively, these
installations and panel discussion at Material Matters London offer a
concentrated focus on how Polish studios are redefining material
intelligence, from steel to ceramics, for an international audience. 
Panel Discussion: ‘Local Knowledge, Global Design: Poland's creative
industries’
Registration: Free to Attend | Register 
Venue: UNLOCKED Shoreditch, 118 Curtain Road London EC2A 3PJNearest
stations: Shoreditch High Street, Old Street, Liverpool Street
See more Polish Design this September as part of the 'Curated Connections'
series in which On&On Designs continue to celebrate Polish design
across two further venues: Mint Gallery's Blueprint, featuring the work of
Mati Sipiora, Formsophy and Tomek Rygalik; and Mandarin Oriental Mayfair's
Reflections, featuring Aneta Kocia, Magdalena Zarychta and Zieta Studio.
This further underscores the breadth and depth of Polish design talent on
show across the London Design Festival 2026. 
Links to find out more:
Material Matters London Fair 
Shoreditch Design Week 
London Design Festival 
Mayfair Design District:
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