Design & Culture
ZAOZUO Lili Chair
Constance Guisset’s open armchair for ZAOZUO, combining bent-plywood seat and back shells with a slender round-steel-tube frame.
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ZAOZUO
A Chinese furniture and home brand working with international designers to translate distinct design ideas into accessible contemporary objects.
Identity record
- Entity
- ZAOZUO (public-facing brand; legal entity not established by the checked first-party catalogue)
- Origin
- China · founding year and current corporate registration not stated in the checked first-party catalogue
- Access
- ZAOZUO operates an official Chinese website. Lili Chair and Mon Chair are documented in the official catalogue used for this profile; current listing, finish, stock, price and delivery were not confirmed.
Representative products
Objects that define the range.
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ZAOZUO Mon Chair
Moritz Schlatter’s compact Grade A white-ash chair for ZAOZUO, with a low curved back and grain-matched solid-wood seat.
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View product →Brand at a glance
ZAOZUO is a Chinese furniture and home brand whose catalogue brings together in-house development and work by designers from different countries. Rather than forcing every object into one house style, the brand gives individual designers room to pursue a clear material or structural idea, then presents the results inside a shared retail and manufacturing system.
Why ZAOZUO matters
ZAOZUO is most interesting where a chair can be understood in one glance. The frame, seat and back explain how the object is made and how it is meant to feel. This directness makes the brand a useful entry point into contemporary Chinese furniture production without reducing the products to decoration or trend.
Two representative products
The Lili Chair, designed by Constance Guisset, uses thin round metal tubes and bent plywood to produce an open, stem-like silhouette. The Mon Chair, designed by Moritz Schlatter, moves in the opposite direction: Grade A white ash, visible grain and a compact low back define a quiet wooden dining chair.
Two approaches to lightness
- Lili: visual lightness comes from open space, narrow tube diameters and separate seat and back shells.
- Mon: visual lightness comes from reduced mass, a low back rail and carefully controlled ash components.
- Colour: the catalogue shows Lili in navy, white and pale pink, and Mon in natural, black and red; current finish availability must be checked.
- Designer authorship: the official catalogue identifies the designer for each chair rather than treating the object as anonymous merchandise.
Why these two
The two chairs share a domestic scale but demonstrate different construction logics. Lili is a metal-and-plywood drawing in space; Mon is a solid-ash object organised around grain, joinery and a compact footprint. They are representative editorial selections, not a claim that the rest of ZAOZUO’s catalogue is less important.
What is verified
Product names, designers, published dimensions, listed materials and catalogue colour references were checked against ZAOZUO’s official product catalogue on 8 August 2026. The catalogue was published in 2020, so it verifies the products and their specification record but not current retail availability. ChinoMuse has not sat in, assembled or durability-tested either chair.
Editorial scope
This independent profile is based on cited public brand information. Inclusion does not imply a partnership, sponsorship or endorsement. Current price, finish, warranty, stock and delivery must be confirmed through ZAOZUO’s active sales channel.