The W* House / Garden

Matroyshka furniture

Danny Fang / Fang Studio

€999

Former senior designer at Marcel Wanders studio dutchman Danny Fang recently upped sticks and moved to Hong Kong to set up his own design studio. Whether he stopped off in Russia on his travels east we don't know but it's to this culture that he owes the genius of his first creation, the Matryoshka nesting furniture. Taking their cue from stacking Russian dolls of the same name, Fang's design comprises two large, square outdoor chairs and two footrests or stools that perfectly fit one inside another for ease of storage and transportation. Manufactured by Malaysian furniture company Kian, the woven polyethylene fibre and aluminium frames of the pieces combine to an astounding total weight of just 22 kilograms, yet retain enough sturdiness not to blow away in the wind.

www.fangstudio.com