Chinese studio Neri&Hu has come up with a new lighting collection for Artemide. Featuring a bird and branches motif, meet the Yanzi collection.

The Yanzi line was revealed at the Euroluce lighting fair at Milan Design Week. The Yanzi range includes pendant lighting, along with floor and table lamps.

Yanzi’s pendant lights feature slim, sleek steel rods that mimic overhead electrical wires; the rods are paired with brushed brass ‘birds’ with globe-shaped light bulb ‘heads’. There are several versions available with different configurations of birds lined up together, hooped shape perches, and glass dome birdcages. But all feature the same abstract approach, suggesting through only brushstrokes.

The Neri&Hu table lamps offer an even more minimalistic aesthetic. Small metal rods hold a bird seemingly about to take flight. The floor lamps are similar to the pendant models.

Neri&Hu was founded by Lyndon Neri and Roassana Hu in 2004; the Chinese-born, Harvard-educated couple have been making waves in the design world ever since, as they toy with the boundary between functional and artistic relevance.