Growing Form: Round-back Chair（圈椅）
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Growing Form: Round-back Chair（圈椅）

Category: Furniture, Sculpture, Crafts
Measures: 12 × 12 × 12 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.

The Round-back Chair is approached as a growing form rather than a finished Ming classic. Through traditional joinery and continuous curvature, the chair emphasizes unity over articulation, allowing structure to read as a single, living body. Working at a reduced scale makes the act of making more intimate and exploratory, turning limitation into method. As one of the most iconic forms in Ming-style furniture, the round-back chair becomes a prototype within the Growing Form series—an early stage through which questions of youth, vitality, and life in furniture are explored.