Blue-tinted glass and iridescent stainless steel feature in Chinese design studio Buzao's latest furniture collections, which were launched at Design Shanghai this week.
The Null collection features blue-toned, transparent glass, intended to evoke "stability, calmness and rationality", while the Hot collection has an iridescent and "violently psychedelic" colour palette.
The items in the Hot collection are made of electroplated stainless steel
Presented at this year's Design Shanghai, which takes place between 6 and 9 March, both furniture collections aim to draw on the "existing beauty of the materials", as well as their "natural imperfections and irregularity".
"What matters most is the artistic properties of uncertainty or abnormality within a substance," Peng Zeng, the brand's director, told Dezeen. The Hot collection has an iridescent and "violently psychedelic" colour palette
The Hot collection, which features a side table, an upright column, a tea table, a table and two benches, uses electroplated stainless steel to create an "uncontrollable" and changing rainbow-hued pattern.
"Unpredictable electroplating is the result of uneven distribution of positive and negative electrons. This uncontrollable quality is the life of the product," said Zeng.
The Null collection is meant to evoke "stability, calmness and rationality"
The Null collection is also designed to generate unpre...