London designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has teamed up with Scottish surfaces manufacturer Mirrl to develop a furniture collection informed by Japanese lacquerwork and a folkloric one-eyed boy.
The Glasgow-based company worked with Furman to examine alternative applications for its solid surface material, which is more typically used for tabletops, kitchens, bathrooms and cladding.
They settled upon a collection of furniture called HK using the material, opting initially for a chair, stool and bench.

Mirrl is made by applying multiple patterned layers of tinted resin in different tones or colours to a birch-plywood substrate. This results in a distinctive organic pattern that is currently produced in a range of eight core colourways.
The manufacturing process used to produce Mirrl is inspired by the ancient art of Tsugaru Nuri lacquerware, which the company's co-founder Simon Harlow encountered when living in Japan.
Harlow was impressed by the intricate patterns the lacquer artists were able to achieve when creating small-scale heirloom pieces and began looking for ways to replicate this effect more quickly and affordably.
"Traditional Tsugaru Nuri lacquerwork is incredibly time consuming because it uses sap from the sumac tree and each layer takes about three weeks to dry," Harlow told Dezeen.
"I thought it was too beautiful not to be used in a bigger way so more people can see it. Fortunately modern resins cure much more quickly so I was able to produce the ...