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1 VISION 4 EXHIBITIONS

MILAN HONG KONGSEOULCHICAGOAPR-OCT 2017

Alan Chan

With more than 600 local and international awards in the fields of advertising and design under his belt, the prolific designer, brand consultant and artist ventured into fine arts in 2000. The ‘Oriental Passion Western Harmony’ design philosophy coined and propagated by Alan Chan has inspired numerous designers at home and abroad alike.

From his earliest days as a designer, Samuel Chan’s emphasis has been on creating furniture that combines contemporary design with exquisite wood craftsmanship. Born in Hong Kong and educated in Britain, he draws on his heritage to produce work that is imbued with a unique synthesis of Eastern aesthetics and Western design ideals.

The SILKROAD, Alan Chan’s first furniture range, is inspired by the S-shaped conversation chair widely popular in the mid-17th century Victorian England and France. All handmade with dark walnut wood and solidly engineered with precise joinery work, milling, sanding and impeccable finish, the collection includes two seaters with four different backrest heights and a four seated bench ideal for public space.

Samuel Chan

The Channels series is a set of well-conceived wood furniture with minimal yet versatile form - ranging from console table, bookcase, tallboy, to baton drum. Made of walnut and oak, Channels is about unthinking the limits of wood. With adroit execution, Samuel Chan has breathed these exquisite wood furniture items and traditional woodworking techniques contemporaneity and relevance. The Joined + Jointed series is made of walnut with a glassy touch.

CONFLUENCE: 20+LA TRIENNALE DI MILANO, MILAN, ITALYAPRIL 4-16, 2017

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS (AS OF FEB 22, 2017)

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Adele ChiuProject Manager, PR & LiaisonHong Kong Design Centre

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Born and raised in Hong Kong, Gary Chang’s crowded childhood home has inspired him to pursue broader architectural discipline in relation to dynamic spatial flexibility and re- definition of traditional boundaries. His studio Edge Design Ltd approaches innovative multidisciplinary designs with the core focus on space. His devotion to micro-apartment projects has granted him a significant positionin the architectural scene and put him in the vanguard of the growing global phenomenon of compact living.

Lulu Cheung

As one of the most celebrated designers in the Hong Kong fashion world, Lulu Cheung is best known for her sophisticated and classic designs with feminine chic. Lulu launched her personal label in 1996 and has attracted clients from all over the world with her signature muted tones and textured apparel all made from natural cotton, wool, silk, and linen.

Lulu Cheung’s designs have always been conjuring a carefree and buoyant feminine beauty with down-to-earth practicality. She will unveil her latest designs at this exhibition to express the soft yet strong femininity.

Gary's installation will allow visitors to experience the notion of compact living from a fresh perspective, encouraging imagination and awareness on how we may manipulate limited spaces for urban living and apartment design in a contemporary city.



Gary Chang



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C.L. Lam

Industrial designer C.L. Lam has been experi-menting with solutions to breathe new life and technology into daily waste. His innovative and eco-friendly design brand OOObject features everyday objects created from sustainably sourced, recycled and biodegradable materials while helping to empower the communities of artisans involved in the production.



Chiu Kwong-chiu

After returning to Hong Kong from his studies in France, Chiu Kwong-chiu has been actively involved in the field of art, design and education. With a passion in traditional Chinese art and architecture, the art consultant is also keen on using computer graphics to explore the boundaries of Chinese traditional visual art as well as to adopt ground-breaking ways to interpret and promote Chinese art and culture.

Turning food waste into useful items is one green solution C.L. brings to the table. The exhibition will feature his furniture and tableware product series made of recycled coffee grounds and food waste.

Through the use of colour, three-dimensional design and animation, Chiu Kwong-chiu will offer a contemporary approach in the interpretation of heritage by engaging visitors on a journey titled "From Hollywood Road to Forbidden City".

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Engineered to be the next generation of home living, ALPOD is a prefabricated unit that realises the emerging concept of mobile home. The fully portable living unit ALPOD is designed by James Law Cybertecture for Aluhouse, with structural engineering support from Arup. With immaculate interior finishings from power outlet, air conditioning to a chic kitchen, the open and airy unit fitted in a lightweight yet sturdy aluminium shell is a contemporary rendition of the ideal designer’s home.

At “Confluence: 20+”, Freeman Lau is presenting multiple collaborative works co-created with Taiwanese calligrapher Tong Yang-tse. ‘Via Negativa’ calligraphy screen and plates are meditative pieces that capture the essence of calligraphic brushstroke. ‘Ingenuity Follows Nature’ paperweights are made of corian, with which highlights the presence and heftiness of Tong’s calligraphy. ‘The Calligraphy of Tea’ and ‘Five Elements’ tea caddies are exquisite pewter collectibles.

James Law

Freeman Lau

With a focus in the architecture of the future, James Law has established himself as a world- renowned architect, designer and innovator. He founded James Law Cybertecture International in 2001 to design the world of the future for the betterment of mankind. Recogised as a pioneer in the new design of Cybertecture, James is a nominated Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum as well as a World Agenda Council member at the World Economic Forum.

Born in 1958, designer-artist Freeman Lau has been one of the key figures in the Hong Kong design scene for decades. Freeman devotes himself to chair design and his Chairplay series have been exhibited extensively. He has been collaborating with prominent calligraphic Taiwan-ese artist Tong Yang-tse on many cross-over projects such as the Search ‘Mo’ Chair in 2009. Freeman’s work always opens up a dialogue for cross-cultural exchange, which he has dedicated himself to through inter-city projects and seminars.





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Lee Chi Wing

Industrial designer Lee Chi Wing founded Milk Design, a unique design force on simple and daily lifestyle products, in 1998. For Lee Chi Wing, design is a continuous exploration of new ideas and solutions to daily life - which are also culturally, socially and environmentally relevant. His works are found in a wide range of areas, from products to services, and from installations to exhibitions.

Lo Chi Wing

The Hong Kong-born architect and designer has spent the past 30 years living in the United States, Greece, and Italy, where he was the art director of the luxury Italian brand Giorgetti for 20 years. Encompassing the fields of architec-ture, sculpture, interior and furniture design, Lo Chi Wing’s designs always embrace timeless-ness and effortless synthesis of ideas and new possibilities, and rigorous reinterpretation of life and place.

Lo Chi Wing’s creations reflect his sensibility and resourcefulness, refinement in ideas and attention to every detail from re-examination of traditional productions and rejuvenation of crafts to innovative use of materials. His designs always embrace timelessness and effortless synthesis of ideas and new possibilities, and rigorous reinterpretation of life and place.

When one thinks of Hong Kong, Cha-Chaan-Teng may be one of the few icons that pop up instantly. The ever-bustling metropolis has something else to offer besides a café. While a cosy coffee shop is ideal for a laid-back afternoon, a tea stall is a perfect stop for a quick recharge. Come to Lee Chi Wing’s tea stall, serve yourself a cup of fragrant milk tea and get fuelled up!





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Lo Kai Yin modernises the age-old East and Central Asian religious and cultural symbols into her contemporary and highly wearable necklace in sterling 18K gold plated motifs embel-lished with freshwater pearl. As a tribute to the world’s oldest trading routes that linked ancient China to Europe, the Silk Road Necklace brings alive a long-standing connection and synergy between the East and West that transcends religion, time, space and ultimately even form itself.

Hong Kong designer Lo Sing Chin’s Guangcai camping series consists of multifunctional pieces that can be transformed into camping gears and fashion items made with Guangcai ceramics and garment.

Lo Kai Yin

With a solid background and profound apprecia-tion of art, cultures and history, Lo Kai Yin’s imaginative designs meld and reinterpret the cultural heritages of East and West in strikingly original, contemporary and usable ways. The prominent jewellery designer, cultural historian, curator and collector is widely recognised for her innovative efforts in bringing a contemporary style to traditional Chinese jewellery, and elevat- ing semi-precious stones into a mainstay of jewellery design.

Lo Sing Chin

In a bid to demonstrate a natural balance and harmony, Hong Kong designer Lo Sing Chin creates highly constructed silhouettes where every detail, fold, dip, wave and knot is impor- tant and contributes to the balance of the whole. Concerning both functionality and liveliness, his designs convey an understanding in fabrics that translates the uniqueness of human body. He has devoted much of his efforts to applying traditional Guangcai patterns to fashion design and household items in recent years.





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Graduated at Central Saint Martins with an MA Design in Textile Futures, Elaine Yan Ling Ng founded The Fabrick Lab to explore the full potential of smart textiles. Recognised by Wired UK as ‘the Chinese designer [who] creates materials that move and grow like trees – but faster,’ she creates high-technology interactive materials and fabrics that can simulate biologi- cal responses or respond to stimuli. Her smart textiles have offered innovative solutions to commercial projects and earned her the honour of ‘techno fairy’ by Elle Deco.

Elaine Ng

Sharon de Lyster

Fashion designer Sharon de Lyster is known for her sophisticated and stylistic approach to bring artisanship and craftsmanship to the internation-al stage with her experience and knowledge in Asian heritage textiles, sustainable fashion production and journalism. Her womenswear label Narrative Made is eager to explore heritage textiles and connect the makers with the buyers.

The Narrative Made womenswear collection takes inspiration from traditional crafts in China and Bangladesh and harnesses the skills of traditional artisans. Sharon de Lyster will pay tribute to Asian craftsmanship in this exhibition by showcasing her collection along with the traditional tools that create the pieces.





Elaine’s latest work Myster of Polychaetes is a responsive installation comprising multiple chandeliers implanted with sensor-controlled robotic arms. Just like a remarkable creature, it reacts to changing footfall and proximity, with its brightness and form varying accordingly. Exhibition visitors can walk up close and feel the harmonic albeit contrastive composition.

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Twenty Five Minutes Older invites the audience to board a tram, a moving time capsule that can hold out against transience in the fast-paced city. Passengers on board see scenery passing by not through the windows, but in an enclosed compartment being turned into a camera obscura with two apertures on its sides. Running in parallel to the moving images is a textual narrative extracted from renowned Hong Kong writer Liu Yichang’s novella Tête-bêche.

Kingsley Ng

With a focus on site-specific, community-engag-ing, participatory and process-based projects, Kingsley Ng explores the various relationships within a context through interdisciplinary media. He often works with the ephemeral and the intangible, including light, sound, space and time, in interactive installations, public work- shops, and sound and spatial design.

As one of the pioneering font designers who have modernised Chinese characters with a perfect balance of utility and artistry, Sammy Or is a true maestro that has laid the foundation of contem-porary Chinese font design. With 30 years of experience working closely with corporations like MTR, Apple and font design company Monotype, Sammy Or’s imprint is all over the city life of Hong Kong and other Sinophone communities.

Sammy Or





‘XinGothic’ Interactive Installation is a tribute to Sammy Or’s masterful creation in Chinese font design. Programmed by an interactive designer, the installation detects visitors’ motion and generates different weather conditions composed of XinGothic Chinese characters. The work captures the power of nature in some ink-painting-like imagery using Chinese charac-ters as a subdued iconography. The work is a witty “word play” representing a modernised Chinese culture in the digital age.

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Stanley Wong, alias anothermountainman, is a visual communicator. Stanley was born in Hong Kong in 1960. He gained international acclaim with his “redwhiteblue” series, which was presented at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. Iconic and relatable, the "redwhiteblue" series has turned a common three-colored tarp in Hong Kong into a symbol for the city - for its vibrancy, versatility, toughness, grassroots quality and many more. Through his design, Stanley has reinvented Hong Kong identity and sparked dialogues, which makes him a unique and irreplaceable designer in Hong Kong.

Stanley Wong





The back to the future / redwhiteblue vase series are objects of paradoxy, playing on the polar opposites of classicism and contemporaneity, toughness and fragility, luxury and economy, and decorativeness and functionality. The work illuminates the artist’s recurrent approach of restaging popular iconology of classical Chinese art in a contemporary rendition. This redemptive gesture evokes a positive, hopeful and “going forward” attitude. Coupling with the redwhiteblue piece, the back to the future / salute to alessi / Alessandro Mendini vase is a tribute to Italian design perfection.

Michael Young will showcase new presentations of his work that continues to push the boundaries of experimental modern design, propelled by the momentum created through collaboration with Chinese industrialists and partners.

Born in Britain, Hong Kong based designer Michael Young is a cross-disciplinary creative mind who has an astounding portfolio covering from interior, furniture, to consumer electronics and accessories. The uniqueness of Michael’s work lies in his constant questioning of typolo-gies and habits, combined with the pioneering passion for technology that brought him to Asia. In recent years, Michael has been partnering with Hong Kong-based brand EOQ to create minimal and downright classic furniture for the consumer market.

Michael Young


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Julie Progin and Jesse McLin

Hong Kong-based designer and artist duo Julie Progin and Jesse McLin established Latitude 22N, which offers a range of contemporary and creative porcelain dinnerware, home décor, accessories and lighting. The duo is keen on drawing upon their different cultures and experiences to find a new, fresh perspective on their own traditions.

Designers Nicol Boyd and Tomas Rosén formed Office for Product Design in 2007. They originally began their collaboration while studying at the Royal College of Art in London. In recent years, the office has also been working with technology start-ups and expanded their traditional design remit to offer holistic ‘design for start-up’ services, covering the wider aspects of product branding, communication and photography, in addition to their typical industrial design focus.

Nicol Boyd and Tomas Rosén

Fragment(s) is a limited edition of porcelain vases that captures the history, break and decayof a mould to reveal the beauty in deterioration and create a memory of what would otherwisebe discarded. The particular process to make each vase revolves around the poetics of decayand results in a totally unique and unrepeatable shape for each piece. No two vases look thesame as the moulds decay and colour combinations change.

Nicol and Tomas will present their recent collections resulted from collaborations with anextensive network of partners and specialists. Their designs are characterised by a searchfor simplicity, with a preference for clear forms and contextual relevance.





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