Design Anthology

Material Experiments

orean designer Jeongseob Kim gained wide recognition in 2016 with his Time for Universe collection, for which he worked with lacquer artisan Namgwon Lyu to experiment with applying a traditional lacquer over basalt. Combining this material with simple geometric shapes, the resulting stools and benches reveal the possibilities of this new technique, which

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