MAKING HISTORY WEARABLE
As a cultural historian, jewellery designer and art consultant Kai-Yin Lo brings an exacting, original eye to Chinese antiquities, reinventing significant traditional motifs and materials as contemporary accessories that redefine China and Asia’s heritage to the modern day aesthete. Intrigued by the antique jade carvings and the small metalware that had found their way to Hong Kong from China by 1979, she began making them into jewellery, initiating an influential trend — “making history wearable” according to the Financial Times.

Lo has consistently used the symbol of the knot which she defines as having “no beginning and no end and transcends nations and languages.” And she believes that for design to be eternal or timeless, it must be both global and local, broad and focused, and reinvigorate the traditional into the contemporary for future generations.

Zone

always a way

Project name

Kai-Yin Lo Jewellery Design

Designer

Kai-Yin Lo

Year

2015

Origin of company

Hong Kong