A pair of apple-sized fruit bowls were built into Helsinki designer Didi Ng Wing Yin 's latest coffee table, which was on display at Spazio Rosanna Orlandi during Milan design week .

The coffee table forms part of Ng' s latest furniture and lighting collection, In Between Wood and Fire.

Didi Ng Wing Yin showed furniture at Spazio Rosanna Orlandi during Milan design week

Known for his experiments with timber, the designer crafted the five bespoke pieces in the collection by splitting, carving and charring 10-by-10-centimetre hunks of solid-sawn construction lumber.

"Normally, this type of wood isn't used to make furniture because of its tendency to crack and deform," Ng told Dezeen.…