Steel & Wood Art
Two Makers. One Vision.
Steel & Wood Art unites two complementary worlds: Peter Cipov's fire-born steel and the warm living grain of KosatkaPD's ancient exotic wood. Every piece is the result of this dialogue - raw iron discipline meeting thousand-year-old tropical timber.
The Steel
Peter Cipov
Artistic Blacksmith - Steel & Wood Art s.r.o.
Born on 23 November 1970 in Bojnice, Peter Cipov is a classically trained artistic blacksmith whose journey spans five decades and six countries. Between 1986 and 1989, he studied artistic blacksmithing at the School of Applied Arts in Kremnica under Professor Benedikt Jurca and Academician sculptor Ivan Lipták, mastering both the forge and the chisel.
After years working as an artistic blacksmith in Prievidza, he moved to Mallorca, Spain, where from 1996 to 2006 he ran a prominent auction house, Maxmilian S.L. in Paguera, handling original works by Picasso, Dalí, Rodin, Giacometti, Miró, Degas, Dürer, and Warhol.
Throughout his life, he has painted, drawn, and sculpted—adding nude photography from 2006 and Japanese calligraphy from 2005 to his practice. In 2025, he returned to Slovakia and co-founded Steel & Wood Art s.r.o., channeling a lifetime of artistic discipline into hand-forged steel furniture and sculptural objects made in collaboration with Ondrej Kusnir.
The Wood
Ondrej Kusnir
Founder KosatkaPD / Wood Art Design
Ondrej Kusnir founded KosatkaPD and the Wood Art Design brand in 2002, spending nearly two decades sourcing and importing rare exotic hardwoods akacacia, teak, lychee, tamarind, mahogany directly from South-East Asia (Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Burma). His first journey to Asia was prompted not by wood but by a serious illness: diagnosed with less than a year to live at age 30, he sought traditional herbal healing in Thailand, discovered the country's culture and its master carpenters, and fell in love with hand-crafted teak furniture. He returned more than 60 times after that. Over almost 10 years of fair personal trading KosatkaPD became one of the very few — perhaps the only — European companies to receive official Thai timber-harvesting and export permits. The studio works exclusively with trees felled with government authorisation; each board is individually registered and tagged. Some trees used in the furniture are up to 800 years old. Harvesting follows a ritual of respect: when a large ancient tree is felled, the site foreman leads a prayer lasting over two hours, and for every tree taken, several young saplings are planted in its place.
Like the fingerprint, the ring-drawing is unique to every single tree. In our products we combine the uniqueness and beauty of exotic wood with the original ideas of the designers. Sometimes we help wood stand out by cutting it into perfect geometric shapes. Other times we leave the wood to its natural edges, irregularities and even defects, which in turn give the furniture a repeatability, character and original beauty.
— Ondrej Kusnir · Wood Art Design