Yanzi, the new lighting system by Artemide: where design meets nature

06/06/2017

Artemide has developed a perfect lighting system creating lightweight compositions and light-filled landscapes that animate any space with an extraordinary elegant and poetic attitude.

This is Yanzi, the latest project by accomplished designers Neri&Hu.

In a perfect blend of tradition and innovation, Yanzi 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.

They are 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 a truly amazing flight of fancy, as well as unique creativity and sensibility, in portraying nature as a perfect blend of warm and cold, essential yet refined materials.

Ultimately, Yanzi expresses best that which is the essence of the activity of Neri&Hu, founded as it is on constant research and the desire to work on the dynamic interaction of experience, detail, material, shape, and light, rather than adapt to tired, cliche-ridden formulae.