‘BLUEPRINT’

As part of On&On Designs’ Curated Connections programme in collaboration with Creative Project Foundation, Polish design takes centre stage at two Mayfair Design District venues this September: Mint Gallery, where ‘Blueprint’ presents new works by Mati Sipiora, Formsophy and Tomek Rygalik, and Mandarin Oriental Mayfair, where ‘Reflections’brings together Aneta Kocia, Magdalena Zarychta and Zieta Studio.
 
Now in its second year, ‘Curated Connections’ by On&On Designs continues to present a concentrated view of the depth and range of Polish design today within an international context. Across both venues, the installations present innovation from artists exploring  metalworking, cast aluminium, ceramics and glass.
 
Curated Connections is curated by On&On Designs in partnership with Creative Project Foundation and the Polish Cultural Institute in London. The project is co-financed by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage under the Creative Industries Institute’s Development of Creative Sectors programme.

MINT GALLERY presents ‘BLUEPRINT’

Mint presents ‘Blueprint’ – an exhibition celebrating the reconfiguration of traditional craft techniques as the foundation for bold, contemporary design. Curated Connections continues Mint’s collaboration with On&On Designs for a second year, presenting three Polish designers whose practices root contemporary design in material knowledge and hand craftsmanship. Formsophy, Tomek Rygalik and Mati Sipiora each explore how experimentation and unconventional processes are reshaping contemporary design, and how Polish designers engage with global conversations in design while remaining grounded in their own perspectives, traditions and approaches to making. 

Formsophy
Formsophy, the artist duo of Alicja Prussakowska and Jakub Kijowski, create sculptural objects from cast aluminium and natural stone at their outdoor foundry. At MINT Gallery, Formsophy presents NAR and the debut showing of HANN. 

Mati Sipiora
Mati Sipiora, a designer and craftsman working from his family’s metalworking workshop, works entirely by hand using traditional tools, such as a lathe and hydraulic press, avoiding automated processes. At MINT Gallery Sipiora presents the Poodle Armchair (2023): sculptural yet inviting, the piece balances bold form with everyday comfort that takes inspiration from the charming qualities of the poodle breed.

Tomek Rygalik
Tomek Rygalik, founder of Studio Rygalik, presents Miss Irony (2026), an industrial intervention examining the tension between comfort and the austerity of the natural world. The piece sees a table cast in industrial iron forced into a burned tree trunk – a violent intersection of the manufactured and the decaying that reframes luxury as a return to the primal.

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