MAZE Design Basel 2026

For the second edition of MAZE Design, Salon 94 presents a conversation between the works of designers Bijoy Jain and Lea Colombo with artist Celia Vásquez Yui — three practices grounded in material understanding, elemental form, and the quiet intelligence of making Featuring a focused grouping of furniture, wall works, stone tables, and ceramic sculpture that privilege touch, weight, and permanence.

Jain’s chairs, benches, and wall works are shaped through the deeply collaborative ethos of Studio Mumbai, fluidly moving between architecture, craft, and material culture, guided by an attentiveness to process and the rhythms of nature. The bamboo seating bound with muga silk and finished with gray or madder-dyed Urushi lacquer carry a sense of restraint and lived presence, revealing the grain and warmth of their materials through forms that feel both elemental and deeply human. Alongside these, a series of Fractal Drawings — bamboo frames woven with bamboo mat and finished with dung, earth, curcumin, and metal pigment — extend Jain’s material thinking into multiple dimensions.

In dialogue with Jain’s works are tables by Lea Colombo, carved from semi-precious stones sourced from Southern Africa. A dining table composed of Red Jasper, African Jade, Sodalite, and Serpentine, and two coffee tables in Tigers Eye. One table accented with Sodalite and Red Jasper, the other paired with African Jade, approach stone with sensitivity to both material and energy, balancing polished surfaces with geometric compositions that emphasize the density and luminosity of stone.

Completing the presentation is a selection of ceramic animals by Celia Vásquez Yui, whose inventive sculptural language expands upon the artistic traditions of the Shipibo-Conibo people of Peru. Coil-built from clay and finished with pre-fire slip painting and vegetal resins, the works include a jaguar, parrot, monkey, deer, fish, and river dolphin — endangered creatures of the Amazonian ecosystem rendered with the kené geometric patterning of Vásquez Yui’s ancestry. Like Jain and Colombo, Vásquez Yui works with materials that carry cultural and ecological memory. Her inclusion coincides with the artist’s participation in the 2026 Venice Biennale.