Collectibles

 3D-printed and hand finished plaster vase with a wax matte finish. Designed by Joey Yu and produced by Unique Board. Part of the Tender Vessels collection, a series of five vases that blends traditional Chinese ceramic design with vignettes of modern life. Limited edition 200.

PRODUCT DETAILS:

• 10" H x 8.3" W x 2.5" D inches
• 25.4 x 21.1 x 6.4 cm
• 5 lb (2.3kg)

From the Artist: Joey Yu is an illustrator, animator, and curator living in London. "The designs I kept pretty traditional, with subtle modern nods in each such as a car, a girl on her phone for example. They all capture a slow, tender moment, stretching it out forever in time. I like to think of it as sculpture poetry." 

3D-printed and hand finished plaster vase with a wax matte finish. Designed by Joey Yu and produced by Unique Board. Part of the Tender Vessels collection, a series of five vases that blends traditional Chinese ceramic design with vignettes of modern life. Production limited to 200 editions.

PRODUCT DETAILS:

• 7” H x 3.9” W x 1.9” D inches
• 17.8 x 10 x 4.8 cm
• 3lb (1.4kg)

DESIGNER: Joey Yu is an illustrator, animator, and curator living in London. "The designs I kept pretty traditional, with subtle modern nods in each such as a car, a girl on her phone for example. They all capture a slow, tender moment, stretching it out forever in time. I like to think of it as sculpture poetry."

3D-printed and hand finished plaster vase with a wax matte finish. Designed by Joey Yu and produced by Unique Board. Part of the Tender Vessels collection, a series of five vases that blends traditional Chinese ceramic design with vignettes of modern life. Production limited to 200 editions.

PRODUCT DETAILS:

• 6” H x 4.9” W x 1.7” D inches
• 15.2 x 12.4 x 4.3 cm
• 3lb (1.4kg)

DESIGNER: Joey Yu is an illustrator, animator, and curator living in London. "The designs I kept pretty traditional, with subtle modern nods in each such as a car, a girl on her phone for example. They all capture a slow, tender moment, stretching it out forever in time. I like to think of it as sculpture poetry."

3D-printed and hand finished plaster vase with a wax matte finish. Designed by Joey Yu and produced by Unique Board. Part of the Tender Vessels collection, a series of five vases that blends traditional Chinese ceramic design with vignettes of modern life. Production limited to 200 editions.

PRODUCT DETAILS:

• 8.5” H x 5.5” W x 2.3” D inches
• 21.6 x 14 x 5.8 cm
• 3lb (1.4kg)

DESIGNER: Joey Yu is an illustrator, animator, and curator living in London. "The designs I kept pretty traditional, with subtle modern nods in each such as a car, a girl on her phone for example. They all capture a slow, tender moment, stretching it out forever in time. I like to think of it as sculpture poetry."

PRODUCT DETAILS:

Materials: 3D Printing Resin, Plated Silver, Mirror

Size: Height 25.8cm, Width 20cm

Weight: 766.73gz

Handmade & pained in the "porcelain capital" - Jing De Zhen, these ceramic plates are one-of-a-kind collectibles.

About the Designer: Li Xu draws inspiration from the famous Dun Huang murals located in the Mogao caves, as well as from the Classics of Mountains and Seas 山海经. Li Xu runs his ceramics studio Kong Liao in Jing De Zhen. 

Handmade & painted in the "porcelain capital" - Jing De Zhen, each of these cups is a one-of-a-kind collectible. 

About the Designer: Li Xu draws inspiration from the famous Dun Huang murals located in the Mogao caves, as well as from the Classics of Mountains and Seas 山海经. Li Xu runs his ceramics studio Kong Liao in Jing De Zhen. 

Measurements: 
Tall teacup: approx. 2.3 in diameter, 2.5 in tall
Short teacup: approx. 2.5 in diameter, 2 in tall

Until Death Do Us Part [双喜] focuses on the unexpected role cigarettes play in Chinese weddings.

As a token of appreciation, it is customary for the bride to light a cigarette for each and every man invited. The bride and the groom are then invited to play some cigarette-smoking games of an unprecedented ingenuousness. This publication pays homage to a tradition in which love and death walk hand in hand.

These photos come from Thomas Sauvin's Beijing Silvermine project - an archive of half a million negatives salvaged over the years from a recycling plant on the outskirts of Beijing.

More on Beijing Silvermine and Thomas Sauvin

3rd Edition

Product Dimensions: 53 x 83 x 21mm

Material: Paperback, in original cigarette box, 108 pages

Publisher: Jiazazhi Press

Foraging for mushrooms with John Cage: writing, art, photography and ephemera from an idiosyncratic chapter in the composer's life

Imagined as an extended mushroom-foraging expedition, John Cage: A Mycological Foray gathers together Cage’s mushroom-themed compositions, photographs, illustrations and ephemera. Indeterminacy Stories and other writings by Cage are interwoven throughout the first volume within a central essay examining Cage’s enduring relationship with mycology. Also included is a transcript of Cage’s 1983 performance, MUSHROOMS et Variationes. The second volume is the inaugural reproduction of Cage’s 1972 portfolio, Mushroom Book, authored in collaboration with illustrator Lois Long and botanist Alexander H. Smith. Readers are thus drawn through the landscape of Cage’s mycologically centred oeuvre and interests, discovering assorted works, images, compositions, philosophies and ephemera, as one might encounter assorted fungi and flora while foraging.

John Cage: A Mycological Foray constitutes a new, idiosyncratic chapter in Cage’s oeuvre, a departure from the composer’s more established narrative.

American composer and music theorist John Cage (1912–92) was a pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music and a leading figure of the postwar avant-garde. His influence extended to the realms of dance, poetry, performance and visual art.

Material: Slip, pbk, 2 vols, 224 pgs, 40 color, 32 duotone, 28 bw.

Product Dimensions: 8 x 11 in

Publisher: ATELIER ÉDITIONS

ISBN: 9781733622004

For this book, there are two editions. One is paperback, and the other one is hardcover. A few images repeats in these two. 

Artist's statement:

This project is about elderly woman wearing facekini on the beach. Facekini is something like bikini but is covering the face.

Many people may think these images are funny. Sure, humor is a part of my intention, but it’s far from my ultimate purpose. In this project, I try to explore a kind of self-gazing with some surreal, dramatic, and humorous portraits of Chinese. This is very similar to the current situation in China, where society is full of surreal landscape. This project attempts to document these fleeting things.

These masks are hand-made by themselves, which are made of tattered vest, rag or swimsuits, and even cloth from useless pants, so you won't find one same mask on the beach.

Each facekini consists of different fabric materials. You may think it's very artistic. They will consider whether the mask goes well with their swimsuit.

In fact, they also know that others may find it ridiculous and strange. But they say the main function of facekini is for UV protection, as well as the offshore pollution in recent years. And more jellyfish attack human. It can avoid getting hurt when wearing a facekini. It also represents another layer of meaning: if you look around the beach, young girls don't wear facekini, men neither. Only middle-aged and elderly women wear mask. So, I think another reason is that these middle-aged and elderly women are ashamed of exposing their aging and deformed bodies. Wearing mask will make them much more comfortable and confident. I still don't know what these people I've photographed look like.

Author: Peng Yangjun

Format: 

150mm X 190mm X 25mm, 252 pages, paperback

 There are two editions of Facekini - paperback and hardcover. 

Artist's statement:

This project is about elderly woman wearing facekini on the beach. Facekini is something like bikini but is covering the face.

Many people may think these images are funny. Sure, humor is a part of my intention, but it’s far from my ultimate purpose. In this project, I try to explore a kind of self-gazing with some surreal, dramatic, and humorous portraits of Chinese. This is very similar to the current situation in China, where society is full of surreal landscape. This project attempts to document these fleeting things.

These masks are hand-made by themselves, which are made of tattered vest, rag or swimsuits, and even cloth from useless pants, so you won't find one same mask on the beach.

Each facekini consists of different fabric materials. You may think it's very artistic. They will consider whether the mask goes well with their swimsuit.

In fact, they also know that others may find it ridiculous and strange. But they say the main function of facekini is for UV protection, as well as the offshore pollution in recent years. And more jellyfish attack human. It can avoid getting hurt when wearing a facekini. It also represents another layer of meaning: if you look around the beach, young girls don't wear facekini, men neither. Only middle-aged and elderly women wear mask. So, I think another reason is that these middle-aged and elderly women are ashamed of exposing their aging and deformed bodies. Wearing mask will make them much more comfortable and confident. I still don't know what these people I've photographed look like.

Artist: Peng Yangjun 彭杨军

• 225mm X 330mm X 10mm,
• 80 pages
• Signed by artist

• Mirror reflective finish steel drum. 100% handcrafted and fine tuned.
• Designed to level musicianship - no skills required to play, just follow your intuition. You can do no wrong.

Watch the scale demo:

KONG DRUM C Zhi Mirror Reflective from Chop Suey Club on Vimeo.

Designer: The KONG drum 空鼓 is a musical sculpture developed by artist-duo Wang Xing and Yu Cen.

 PRODUCT DETAILS:

• Brass, plated with 18k platinum 
• Length 14cm, height 4.2cm, width 6.5cm, weight 100g
• Wipe clean after every use to avoid erosion.  Avoid contact with perfume (alcohol) and other detergent. Hard collision might cause it to break.
  

DESIGNER: Established by design duo Xiaoyu Zhang and Li Min, YVMIN 尤目 is an acclaimed Beijing based jewelry design studio known for its innovative take on body-decoration.

Velvet felted headband composed of butterfly bows. This is a runway showpiece from YVMIN x SHUSHU TONG Bloodthirsty Girl collection.

PRODUT DETAILS:

• Size outer height 18cm / 7.1in, outer width 7cm / 2.8in, inner diameter 13cm / 5.1in
• Nylon, weight: 134g, use a soft brush to clear the debris off. Please seek professional dry clean care if stained. Do not wash or touch water.

DESIGNER: Established by design duo Xiaoyu Zhang and Li Min, YVMIN 尤目 is an acclaimed Beijing based jewelry design studio known for its innovative take on body-decoration.