Yanzi @ Artemide
For , Neri&Hu created a clever mixture of tradition and innovation: YANZI. It is a lightweight composition of graphic signs: balanced structures, such as branches or perches, support multiple stylized figures to provide a variety of versions and qualities of light. Key feature of YANZI are stylized and iconic swallows with a brushed brass body, with their head like a white glass sphere enclosing light, either flying free or contained in glass cages, There is unique sensibility in matching warm and cold, essential yet refined materials. The YANZI collection, introduced in 2017, comes both in standard versions – table, floor, and two different suspensions – and as a perfect range of elements to create small and large customized suspensions. YANZI is an open system, ideal for creating lightweight compositions and light landscapes that animate any space with a sophisticated character. The base elements – the two stylized swallows, a glass dome, and black rods available in a number of lengths – give life to multi-level frames that run across space in all directions, animated with figures that peek out in different positions.