About the studio

Matter, made to speak.

PengZeng portrait
Studio principal — PengZeng

piiiz is the studio of PengZeng.

Peng Zeng is a China-based artist and designer from a background in Product Design. Peng explores the elastic boundaries of the conventional product design and studies the art of design in visual and spatial fields. Peng places an emphasis on encountering new materials and discovering ever-evolving bodies of work through experimentation and organic research.

While intertwining the functionalities of the medium and the ultimate visual quality in design, Peng produces a contemporary body of work that sublimes into a curious amalgam of her artistic disciplines of provocative objects of balance.

Fragments

Objects as language — in matter, or in form.

A natural pull toward the heavy, the coarse.

Even light materials are drawn as thick lines — surfaces stacked into volume.

Sequence and repetition amplify a material's voice.

A symbol to carry through the work — a thread, a line.

European motifs, estranged on Chinese ground — distorted, then re-cut.

A practice, in years.

2012 — 2026
2012 — 2017BENTUdesign Joined BENTUdesign, Guangzhou, and built out its product and material line — among China's earliest original-design work in stone, concrete and cement.
2017 — 2020Studio Buzao Lead designer of Studio Buzao, an experimental art studio. Launched HOT, NULL, HALO and Dyeing Marble across electroplated steel, laminated glass and stone.
2020 —Gallery All Signed with Gallery All for Twisted Memory — functional-art pieces in marble that translate baroque silhouettes into stratified stone.
2023 — 24Commissions Trophy and object commissions, including the DIOR Shanghai International Film Festival 'Women in Motion' award.
2026 —piiiz Now an independent studio under the piiiz name — first used in 2021 on Twisted Memory — making its own objects in coordination with 933.work.
The team behind Buzao
Studio Buzao team, Guangzhou
Studio Buzao, Guangzhou — left to right: Ma Jieying, Su Zhenhan, PengZeng, Huang Siya

Behind every object are the people who helped make it possible.

This photograph captures an important chapter of my journey. During the buzao years, I worked alongside an exceptional team of designers, engineers and makers. Together, we developed furniture and lighting collections, collaborated with manufacturers across China, and spent countless hours prototyping, refining details and learning directly from materials and craftsmanship.

Over time, our understanding of design evolved beyond creating individual products. It became a continuous exploration of materials, manufacturing and the value objects can bring to everyday life.

While piiiz is an independent practice today, its foundation was built through these early explorations — where many of the questions we continue to investigate first emerged.

Making

piiiz works are coordinated, sourced and made through 933.work.

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