Jovana Zhang
Paper Garden
Born in Belgrade in 1983. Graduated from Belgrade University of Applied Arts. After working in Studio Urquiola in Milan in 2010, Jovana moved to China to partner with Zhang Lei and Christoph John, to start the Future Tradition project in Pinwu studio.
Silk is an amazing material. It all begins with a worm that makes a cozy home for itself, wrapping silk yarn around it in many directions to create a cocoon. The inspiration behind the Silk Cabinet is to recreate the same process by wrapping the frame with Tian Can Duan silk in different directions to create a cabinet. Stretching and pulling the soft silk layers around the frame until the surface loses its transparency and becomes opaque.