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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: 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.
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