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Being situated outside K11 Musea’s MoMA Store, Vermillion decided to craft a love letter to the energy, power and dynamism behind young Asian designers, with something to share with the world.
With an ode to Maximalism in mind, two zones – Bright vs Dark – were curated.
As prize winner of GBA Cultural Creativity Award (2020), China Ceramic Art Design Exhibition (2021), Hong Kong Design Association’s Global Design Awards and Design for Asia Awards (2022), DBA brought in 3 limited edition speakers from his Master Artist Series featuring exquisite artwork.
“Symbiosis”, Freeman Lau: Winner of DFA World Outstanding Chinese Designer Award (2021), Chairman of Hong Kong Federation of Design and Creative Industries, Freeman’s “Chairplay” series is collected by museums and collectors worldwide, with celebrated bamboo art installations at San Francisco’s Civic Centre Plaza (2017), “Bamboo Fortune Cookies” at Hong Kong Heritage Museum (2015), Eslite Spectrum Suzhou, China (2016).
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“Metaverse Love”, Frog King: A pioneering conceptual and performance artist classically trained in ink painting and calligraphy with master Lui Shou Kwan in 1960s, Frog’s East-West philosophy of "Art is Life. Life is Art" takes conversations, restaurant menus, photographs, events, Hong Kong districts, comedic idioms as source material. In Frogtopia, words "Love, Harmony, Happiness" and "Love, Sense, Prosperity" juxtapose with smiling frog motifs. Featured at Hong Kong Pavilion in 54th Venice Biennale, Hong Kong's M+ Museum for Live Art invited Frog King to recreate his 1979 "Plastic Bag Project" from the Great Wall, the historical first work of performance art in China.
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“Reborn”, Michael Miller Yu: Former Chairman of the Hong Kong Outstanding Designers Association, recipient of 10 Outstanding Designer Award from Hong Kong Art & Design Festival, 3-time winner of Outstanding Greater China Design Awards, 2-time winner of the Governor's Industrial Design Award, appointed designer of Hong Kong Post for 2000 Olympic Games (Sydney) special stamps, and by HKSAR Government for 6th WTO Ministerial Conference held in Hong Kong.
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Kitt.Ka.Khon: Founded by designer Teerapoj Teeropas, winner of DITP Design Excellence Award and Designer of the Year Award, Kitt.Ta.Khon explores craft techniques from across the globe through its handwoven furniture pieces and interior finishing, expressing his philosophy that craftsmanship is beyond boundaries and there is a universal language between each craft community.
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Through pattern research and historical reference studies, Teeropas pays tribute to different cultures such as Thai, African, Chinese, Moroccan and many more. Color play is another signature of the brand, blending ethnic aesthetics with refined modern sensibilities. Crafted in Thailand by Thai artisans from beginning to end, Kitt.Ka.Khon showcases the positioning of Thailand as a cultural melting pot.
OneMoreThing: Thailand Bangkok’s edgiest textiles design collective, co-founded by Narongsak Thongvatanavanich and Saran Yen Panya, as a collaboration platform for talented artists, makers, and designers who are passionate about woven surfaces and believe in “breaking the pattern”.
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Debuted across the Old Quarter of Bangkok, provoking discussions around social media - the era of surreal projections of the self, influencers, flaunting exterior surfaces through an endless kaleidoscope of image consumption, sarcastic illustrations and artisanal Thai silks.
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Vintage kimonos were reconstructed into a new patchworks alongside patterns from period tilework common across Bangkok’s historic Charoenkrung artistic district.
K11 Musea x Vermillion pan-Asian designer homeware pop-up also highlights:
- ANADA (Indonesia): deck chair fabricated from reclaimed teak wood with banana bark weave.
- Chi Choi Mao (Hong Kong): vinyl records storage cabinet featuring traditional Chinese no-nails wood joinery and vintage bevelled glass, as showcased at London Design Week 2023.
- Hacienda Craft (Philippines): woven buri palm and leather tray.
- Sharmaine Kwan (Hong Kong): calls attention to wisdom of Chinese idioms and seals inspired by Hong Kong’s distinctive neon shop signs.
- SUGO (Hong Kong): tubular steel is bent into symbolic movements of human body, where an opaque glass sphere emitting LED light represents the human head and mind.
- Swoon Space (Thailand): Pomme Chan’s textile designs are locally sourced and handcrafted by Thai artisans.
- The Eighteen Studio: vintage skateboards embellished with distinctive ceramic tableware designs and symbols from Hong Kong.
Vermillion believes that K11 Musea is a world leader in patronage of design and the arts across Asia, thus we feel proud to be invited to showcase our brand partners at such a prestigious venue.
