After studying business, sculpture and industrial design in the 90s, he co-founded Hothouse, a furniture design, manufacturing and retail group of companies that sold its products to hundreds of retail galleries around the world. Now a regular presenter/exhibitor at international design conferences and exhibitions on ideas that surround sustainable-desire, chaos theory, and the emergence of the Creative Economy, Antoniuk continues to pursue new methods for creating sustainable and economically viable products and services that are inspired by remote/indigenous cultures and embodied knowledge.