The highest good is like water.
Water takes any form, yet remains itself;
yields - and prevails; moves - and stays true to itself.
Laozi · Tao Te Ching · Chapter 8
The story of one encounter
A meeting of two cultures and a partnership between Russian and Chinese talents brought new motifs and collections into the Sagarti range - uniting mastery of material with contemporary design.
Laozi wrote: "The highest good is like water. It does not argue with form - it accepts it. It does not search for a path - it finds one. Softness wears down stone. Transparency holds light."
MUSE Design Awards 2024 · Platinum × 2 · MAISON&OBJET Paris · Design Shanghai · Yao Foundation
01/02
Collection
Light in flight.
Art lighting installations where movement is embodied in crystal and light.
02/02
Collection
Light in flow.
A splash, a stream, a drop - water captured in its most honest gesture. Light is not added; it is returned.
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Wu Daize spent ten years searching for a material in which light would behave like water - thickening, refracting and glowing from within. A material able to convey the aesthetics of pure, moving water as precisely as possible.
The result is a high-tech synthetic crystal with a refraction index close to natural crystal and rare plasticity for a crystal material. Liquid while being formed, solid at rest. It can become a drop in the palm of a hand or a human-scale form.
BOKING Crystal is fully eco-friendly and safe.
Compared with other transparent materials
| BOKING Crystal | Glass | Acrylic (PMMA) |
Lead crystal |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Refraction | ≈ 1.65similar to natural crystal | ≈ 1.52 | ≈ 1.49 | ≈ 1.55 |
| Transparency | Idealno yellowing, does not cloud | High | High, yellows under UV | Ideal |
| Plasticity | Exceptionalany handmade form | Low, factory casting | Medium, milled | Low |
| Durability | Highdoes not shatter like glass | Fragile | Soft, scratches | Fragile |
| Safety | Inertfor residential spaces | Inert | Inert | Contains lead |
Process
Each figure passes through four stages. All of them are manual. There is no machine seriality here.
Crystal raw material is brought to a liquid state. It becomes transparent and fluid - like water, only hundreds of degrees hotter.
The master captures the moment between liquid and solid. This is where each figure receives its character - its curve, its movement.
Thin flakes of gold leaf are introduced into the crystal, remaining suspended inside the hardened mass like reflections of light in water.
The surface is finished by hand to a glass-like state. Light begins to live inside the form - refracting, reflecting, dispersing.
The same BOKING ART workshop creates furniture, decor and art objects from BOKING Crystal - the material from which our pendants are born. Models and formats for the room, from decor to large-scale art objects.
Furniture and sculptures made from BOKING Crystal are suitable for outdoor settings — terraces, gardens and open public spaces — while retaining their strength and refined appearance.
We work from a single pendant to sculptural forms for a specific room. Below are base ranges and terms for design studios and architects.
USD conversion: 1 USD = 75 RUB; prices rounded to the nearest $10
Five sizes - from a chamber pendant to a leading accent for a large room.
Formerly Splash. Free water forms: Flow, Cascade, Torrent, Wavelet, Spout, Eddy, Elara, Flex.
From 15% for design studios and architects working directly with us. The percentage grows with volume and repeat projects.
Visualization of the installation in your interior before ordering. We agree size, density, heights and finish color.
Site visits during installation, coordination with contractors and lighting engineers. Required for large forms.
Standard models are delivered to site from 8 weeks. A custom form for a project starts from 12 weeks.
Logistics across Russia are included in the base price. Installation and site visits are estimated separately by region and complexity.
For any lighting order from $13,330 placed by August 11, 2026, we include a signature BOKING Crystal decor piece - a separate collectible art object valued at $3,600.
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Mobula, Voda and Atelier BOKING are our collaboration with the Chinese artist Wu Daize. Sagarti also has other collections and projects - architectural light, engineering development and signature series.
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