Mati Sipiora

Mati Sipiora is a designer and craftsman who founded his eponymous furniture brand inside his family’s metalworking workshop in Czepino, Poland. He holds a PhD in design and spent more than a decade in industrial design, with a focus on products for people with neurological impairments, working in Poznań and Berlin before returning to the workshop to start an independent practice rooted in craftsmanship.

He works mainly with traditional tools such as a lathe, a hydraulic press and welding equipment, deliberately avoiding CNC machining and automated manufacturing, so that pieces are made by hand in small batches. The results are minimalist forms in steel, among them the Poodle Armchair and the Cosmic Tray, a contemporary reading of the family business SIMAR, founded in 1988 by his father Marian Sipiora and still running.