Aleksander Oniszh is a self-taught furniture designer and maker of functional art pieces. His designs are characterised by sensuous approach to form and unconventional use of tools. His use of material is based on deep understanding of the physicality of wood and its structural properties. In making artistic choices he is chiefly guided by intuition.

Folly Chair is the result of the artist’s improvised gestures and the work of a mechanical tool whose oscillations and vibrations were imprinted in wood. The chair is made out of a single piece of timber which undergoes series of reconfigurations. Hidden symmetries and patterns are brought back to life while raw wooden elements are carved out into an object. It’s functional and ornamental at the same time.