A set of four hand tools for gardeners from Bejing/Hangzhou-based Fnji Furniture embodies industrial designer Gu Qi Gao’s lofty goal: to “discover meaningful things invented by Chinese people and to use them to serve modern Chinese people.”
![A set of four Gardening Tools includes a fork, a weeder, a digger, and a trowel; ¥ \290 (approximately \$4\2.93 US) from Fnji Furniture.](https://media.gardenista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/hand-tools-garden-fnji-furniture-china-733x489.jpg)
![Made of a zinc-aluminum alloy, each tool comes with a leather loop and can hang from a hook.](https://media.gardenista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/garden-hand-tools-fnji-furniture-1-733x489.jpg)
![\2\20;after a period of use, and air, soil and hand skin contact,\2\2\1; the tools will achieve a polished patina, notes Fnji Furniture.](https://media.gardenista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/hand-tools-gardeners-733x489.jpg)
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![Each tool is about 9 inches long.](https://media.gardenista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/garden-tools-trowel-fork-fnji-china-733x489.jpg)
N.B.: From more from Fnji Furniture in Bauhaus in Beijing: Craft Furniture from an Emerging Designer. And in case you’re wondering… How Many Hand Shovels Do You Need? Find the Best Trowel or Weeder.
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