Organic hexagonal fusion round "Instrument" tea walnut coaster set

There is a long tradition, in both Japanese craft and Chinese decorative art, of the functional object that earns its right to exist through the quality of its making and the depth of its cultural reference. This coaster set belongs to that tradition and extends it into entirely new formal territory. The resonator body of a traditional erhu the two-stringed fiddle at the heart of Chinese classical music, whose form has been essentially unchanged for over a thousand years, becomes here the structural logic for a set of stacked walnut coasters, each disc shaped to form the body of the instrument when assembled, each tuning peg and curved scroll neck rendered in the same warm solid walnut that gives the whole object its quiet material authority. The result is a desktop object of such formal completeness that it functions simultaneously as a sculptural ornament, a cultural reference, and a set of four practical coasters,none of the three roles diminishing the others. Available in two resonator forms that reflect the instrument's own regional variation: the hexagonal body, whose geometric facets catch the light and give the assembled piece a more architectural, graphic presence, and the round body, whose circular stacking reads as softer and more immediately musical. Both are crafted from solid walnut, the grain visible across each disc face and through the neck, the material's natural warmth deepening the cultural associations of the form it has been asked to inhabit. An object to display always and to use whenever a cup needs somewhere to rest.