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"A modern metropolitan like Shanghai is also a concrete jungle, where people live and work under high stress. The idea of a forest is to allow them to relax and release that pressure," says Wang.

Born in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu province, Wang learned art and design in the Unites States and Switzerland. He founded Benwu Studio in New York along with his childhood friend You Peng in 2011. You, also 26, graduated from Royal College of Art in London.

"We stayed at a Hermes workshop to pick the materials and work with designers and craftsmen," You says. "We are impressed by Mussard's passion for creating things from what we usually consider useless stuff."