Michael Young Studio has launched The Tea Chair at Maison et Objet Paris. The product is part of a new 10 piece collection created for Chinese lifestyle brand Zens. The concept was created as part of a restaurant project by Zens that will focus on the art of drinking tea. The laminated wood has been three-dimensionally formed, a technique that is still relatively complex to achieve in Asia.
Young says “ I’ve been obsessed by creating a compound wooden shell for a long time, the reality is that these forms are achieved easily in plastics but in laminated Oak, it’s an engineering art form and very few factories have the capacity to build stable shells.
The Chair comes with matching tables but for the rest of the collection, we focused on microenvironments.