One of the highlights of the Milan Design Week was a lighting collection named Yanzi which shape resembles birds poised on wires and branches.
For one week each April, Italy becomes the design capital of the world as Milan Design Week brings more than 300,000 people to the city for five days of aesthetically inspiring activation's, showcases and parties. The sprawling event spans the city across spaces that range from gritty warehouses and historic monuments to high-end showrooms and sees brands compete for attention amid an explosion of creativity that bridges the worlds of art, architecture, fashion, design and technology.
The Yanzi range features pendants as well as floor and table lamps was created by Neri&Hu – a design studio founded by Chinese-born, Harvard-educated couple Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu in 2004.
Paying homage to both the urban and the natural, the rigid and the organic, and made using slender rods of steel, the pendant lights resemble overhead electrical wires, with abstract versions of birds created using bodies of brushed brass, and a globe-shaped light bulb for a head.
Available in several versions, the pendants feature either solitary lights or multiple ‘birds’ lined up together. Hoop-shaped details recall perches, while a glass dome references the shape of a classic bird cage.
Neri&Hu's table lamps are even more stripped-back, resting only on small metal rods and resembling a bird about to take flight. The floor lamps feature similar graphic lines to the pendants.
For more information please head on over to the official website here.
