Zi Studio
Zi Studio
Zi Studio is an archive of multi-disciplinary exploration and experimentation by Zijun Zhao(赵梓俊).
Zi Studio explores the shifting relationships between space, objects, and people, tracing how they are formed, disrupted, and reimagined through everyday practices.
Zi Studio understands making as thinking, and design as questioning. Working across furniture, zines, photography, and installations, projects unfold through making, placing, using, and revisiting objects within everyday spaces.
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Growing Form: Eight Immortals Table (八仙桌)
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Growing Form: Eight Immortals Table (八仙桌)
Category: Furniture, Sculpture, Crafts
Measures: 20 × 20 × 20 in
Mediums: Golden nanmu
Year: 2024Growing Form is a series that reconsiders Ming-style furniture as forms in growth rather than finished traditions. Through small-scale making and traditional joinery, the series reflects on youth, becoming, and the possibility of new design emerging from historical forms.
This work reimagines the Eight Immortals Table, one of the most representative forms in Ming-style furniture, as a form in its early stage of growth. Limited by tools and the absence of a fixed studio, the project embraces small-scale making as both a practical choice and a source of inspiration. Traditional panel construction and concealed joinery allow the table to appear as a unified body, minimizing visible cross-sections. Rather than a completed object, the table is treated as a young form—suggesting furniture not as something assembled, but as something that grows from wood through making.
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