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GIFTING GUIDE FALL 2013 | VOLUME 1
GIFTING The Art of
"listen; there’s a good unive next door: l
s a hell of erse let’s go"
once upon a time in china this was gifting
and today it’s only worse
[no gift should be this dull]
BUNDSHOP
CUSTOM GIFTING SERVICE
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We are
unusually energetic & endlessly optimistic taste makers
We can
create any gift, packaging, design you can imagine.
We love
engineering beautiful objects & experiences.
We work
with brands, companies, & people we believe in.
our designers have worked with the following brands
designed in china
carl liu
An icon of design in both mainland China and Taiwan, Carl Liu lives by design that is as functional as it is aesthetically beautiful. An industrial designer by training, Carl’s products are defined by his curiosity for problem-solving. Says Carl, “Some designers aim to be famous. I just want to create truly timeless, quality products. It’s a never-ending learning process. Everyone today is in a rush. But good design cannot be rushed. It takes patience, learning.” Two decades of designing are testament to his dedication to the process of design.
shanghai breeze fan
shanghai breeze fan
Featuring 28 of Shanghai’s most iconic buildings on each hand-cut, sandalwood blade, the Shanghai Breeze Fan artfully opens to represent China’s modernization over the past two decades. The fan represents New China through an ancient aesthetic; in Liu’s words, “The fan is something solid from the past to hold on to, at the same time reflecting the progress that has taken place in the last ten years in China.”
sansa
An audacious blend of entrepreneurial zeal and Chinese artistry, David Jia is fast driving Sansa to become one of China’s foremost design brands, representing a brilliant blend of Chinese philosophy and modern design. As founder and creative director of China’s largest design firm, LKK Design, David and his talented team founded Sansa to become China’s leading design brand and an international first: Designed by China. Sansa is China’s first design company to win the Red Dot, IF, and IDEA design awards in 2008. Ever since, the brand has continued winning international and domestic acclaim for its stunning designs.
empty Mountain incense burner
empty mountain incense burner
Experience a serenity rarely found in the fast-growing cities of modern China. The Sansa team spent months experimenting with the movement of smoke along the stones to find a visual depiction of true peace and happiness as found in nature. The end design allows incense to billow downwards softly down the side of the mountain when lit. Made from black goldstone polished with titanium alloy.
sansa
climbing tiger incense burner Burning incense leaves a trail like the footsteps of a tiger climbing a mountain. The design is reminiscent of our upward walk through life, with scattered ashes representing the challenges faced along the journey. An elegant, modern interpretation of the ancient Han Dynasty bronze tigers. Available in ceramic or wood and gold.
climbing tiger incense burner
latitude 22N
The story of Latitude22N starts with artisan couple Julie and Jesse Mclin, whose fateful encounter at a ceramics kiln led to a true love story. The two debuted their first porcelain collection at their wedding. The pieces were so popular among their guests that they launched Latitude22N, now one of Hong Kong’s leading porcelain designer brands. Julie and Jesse have proven growing worldwide demand for modern Asian design, receiving commissions from many clients including the W hotel and Standard Chartered Private Banking. In 2011, Latitude22N won both the DESIGN FOR ASIA award for The Night Market collection as well as the 40 Under 40 Perspective Magazine award.
song charger
song charger
Designed in Hong Kong by artisans Julie & Jesse of Latitude22N, each celadon-glazed piece is completely unique. Rather than mass-producing the collection, Latitude22N chose to have each piece hand-carved in a family-run workshop in Jingdezhen, China. The simple flourishes and elegant celadon glaze, as well as the depictions of humans’ interaction with nature, are inspired by Song dynasty art.
latitude 22N
ripple cups
ripple cups
Latitude’s ripple cup takes its cue from the blue and white patterns of the scrolls and vases of classical Chinese painting. Each ripple cup is hand-made and hand-painted by expert craftsmen in Jingdezhen, after which only the best are picked out and given the mark of approval with a series of 14-karat gold flourishes.
latitude 22N
stackable candle holders First commissioned by the W Hotel, each set of handmade candleholders stacks and unstacks as a dynamic embellishment to any table setting or room display. This collection of playful porcelain candleholders puts you in charge of how big or small, creative or simple you want to go. Crafted by master artisans in Jingdezhen, designed and painted by Latitude22N studio in Hong Kong.
stackable candle holders
studio 22
Taiwan-based 22 Design Studio was founded by industrial designers Sean Yu and Yi-ting Cheng in 2005. With their main mission of operating a self-owned label 22™ comprised of personal accessories made of cement and metal, 22 Design Studio puts forth products that represent independence and energy through the simplest of designs and the highest quality materials. Their works have been featured in GQ, Wallpaper Magazine and DesignBoom.
concrete pen & pencil
concrete pen and pencil
With these weighted, handpoured concrete writing pieces, effortlessly record inspirations and ideas. The perfect gift for anyone who loves seeing the natural wear-andtear of objects with personal use: the ridge details become smoother with use, molding to the user’s touch over time.
zhoujie zhang
Zhoujie Zhang’s fantastical furniture brings to mind digitization and galactic travels. It’s near impossible to imagine that these futuristic designs came from a boy trained in classical arts in rural village of Ningbo, China. Growing up, Zhoujie says, “I had this feeling that there were unknown forms of artistic expression beyond my village. His graduation collection at St. Martin’s College of Art and Design was so well-received internationally that he has since become heralded in mainland China as a design prodigy. Today Zhoujie and his team in Shanghai create stunning hand-welded steel works using digital imaging.
DIGITAL vessel
digital vessel
A collection of digitally-iterated steel vessels. The number of iterations is infinite for this series, with 100 designs currently available to private collectors. The perfect gift for the modern collector of one-of-a-kind goods.
sozen
Industrial design professor turned entrepreneur, Junjie Zhang, explains the inspiration behind Sozen from the time he took students to the oldest bamboo villages in Shenzhou. “These were some of the wealthiest rural villages in the 70s and 80s, with master arts craftsmen that had been commissioned by Deng Xiaoping and other high-ranking officials. But in the 90s, times changed. When my students and I went, we found most of the craftsmen were over 60, the masters were in their 70s and 80s. They had very few orders, just woven baskets for some European clients, bamboo figures for tourist shops. I had such a feeling of loss for these valued artisan skills of the past. We founded SOZEN to find a way to integrate traditional crafts with modern design.�
basket vase
basket vases
After a visit with his students to the historical bamboo-weaving village of Zhejiang in Shanzhou, Sozen founder Junjie Zhang was inspired to create modern bamboo designs. “We like to imagine how many villages, artisans, we could support if we could revitalize this art-form. So we constantly look for creative ways to integrate bamboo into products in our daily lives.” With the Basket Vase, he continues on with this mission. The end product of these villagers’ weaving expertise and Junjie’s design is a floating bamboo cloud surrounding an internal ceramic vase, nature interwoven into art with the utmost craftsmanship.
tea one
Cutting-edge design meets centuries of tea history. Based in Shanghai, TeaOne’s youthful and creative team designs sleek gift sets, for the international discoverer of perfection in both taste and design.
tea one gift set
tea one gift set
Sleek modern design joins with centuries-old tea culture. This giftset features 9 different varieties of tea, including three types of green tea, white tea, jasmine tea, and red teas. Each type contains 12 individually packaged teabags, for a total of 108 refreshing tea experiences. A phenomenal office-opening or house-warming gift for tea-lovers.
tea one
harvest moon tea set This gift set is perfect for the upcoming Moon Festival in August, or a gift for any occasion. The gift box contains two gift containers, one with Fujian Tea from the peaks of the Wuyi Mountain, the other a densely flavorful tea cake also from Wuyi region.
harvest moon tea set
yasi
The philosophy behind Yasi centers on the idea that “the value of arts lies in creating everyday happiness and beauty.� Born and raised in the porcelain capital of China, Jindazhen, the Ke sisters work with the best local designers graduated from Jingdezhen Ceramics College to bring innovative, classically-influenced porcelain works to daily city life. They launched their brand, Yasi, in 2009 and opened their first store in Shanghai. Strong local demand and media interest has led them to open two more stores.
double happiness cup set
Made from the best white clay of the mountains of Jindazhen and stampcarved with red glaze, this set of Double Happiness cups was carefully constructed to wish newlyweds and lovers the best of luck on their journey together. The character for happiness is engraved on the bottom of each cup. The characters are traditionally doubled throughout Chinese history as a symbol for double prosperity and luck, and the characters are considered the luckiest in the Chinese language. This set makes a perfect gift, a lovely wish for good fortune hidden underneath pristine simplicity in presentation.
double happiness cup set
Double Happiness Cup by Yasi
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