ART ATTACK

Online contemporary Asian art resource The Artling has partnered with Pun + Projects for the first time to curate and showcase a number of exclusive collections under the heading Collectible Design. They ran as an exhibition in October, and items from them are still on sale on The Artling’s site. Among the distinctive objects are “dysfunctional ceramics” by Delhi-based Claymen, woven works by Thai firm Patapian and deceptively simple designs from Japan’s Kazunaga Sakashita.

Hong Kong design duo Lim + Lu are known for their colourful geometric furniture, which won them recognition last year as a Rising Asian Talent at the Paris edition of trade fair Maison + Objet. For The Artling’s exhibition, founders Vincent Lim and Elaine Lu contributed their signature Mondrian- style Frame table, a modular piece that features a structured scaffold with coloured wood panels and shelves that are inserted to create surfaces and racks to suit the user. Also available are their Split vases, representing a more organic side to the practice, which fuse the forms of two vastly different Ming vases into a single vessel, glazed in a mix of three different hues.

Seoul-based furniture artist Ok Kim applies traditional Korean lacquer technique ottchil to natureinspired home pieces such as side tables and stools, each of which is completely unique and represents a beautiful modernisation of an age-old process. Vibrant but muted, simple but intricate, the Merge series available on The Artling was shown at the Salone Satellite emerging talent section of the Milan Furniture Fair this year; it is inspired by Kim’s visit to a Buddhist temple, where villagers and pilgrims stack stones to represent their wishes, taking care to preserve the balance and structural integrity of the leaning towers.