SEASON’S GREETINGS!

décembre 25th, 2010 Posted in Non classé

déc, 25 2010

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: Lisa Minder-Wu the furniture maker.

: Liu Yang the cheese maker.

: A yak wool shawl by Norlha.

: Ceramist Hai Chen.

: Xiamen-based Red Dragon Yachts.

: Suren Handmade husband and wife team.

: Marianne Friese, Malilian designer/owner.

: Adam Healy runs Ark Surfboards in Hong Kong.

: Nicolas Favard, Beijing-based goldsmith.

: Pierre-Arnaud Le Magnan, Chiru bikes owner.

: A printing machine at Time Machine Image Centre in Beijing.

: Virginie Fournier, Shanghai Trio owner.

: Plastered 8 Dominic Johnson-Hill in his Nan Luo Gu Xiang store.

: Gao Zhenmin the Hebei-based double bass maker.

: Papertiger owner Lucy Young.

It’s Christmas time, and Nicely Made in China (NMiC) would like to thank our readers -the 329 Facebook fans, the 280+ Rss subscribers as well as the 122 who have subscribed to our newsletter- for the wonderful gift they have provided. They have helped turn 2010 into a success for our budding website, giving further opportunities to the site’s small companies to have a louder voice in a very crowded marketplace.

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DAYE-INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

décembre 18th, 2010 Posted in DESIGN, GUANGZHOU

déc, 18 2010

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: Li Zetian founder and main designer of the Chinese product design company Daye Design based in Foshan in Guangdong province.

: Daye Design international team with Li Zetian at the end of the table.

: Li Zetian likes to design sport products: another example with this foldable bike.

: Safety electrical outlet by Daye Design, Li Zetian’s company based in Foshan.

Once again, design takes centre stage for Nicely Made in China’s weekly feature. Mr Li Zetian was born in 1977 in Hebei, the province which surrounds Beijing. He began his professional life as a graphic designer and went on to build one of the major product design companies in Foshan, Guangdong province, in Southern China. Read the rest of this entry »

DESIGN, GUANGZHOU

DANNY FANG – PRODUCT DESIGN

décembre 11th, 2010 Posted in CITIES, DESIGN, FURNITURE, HONG KONG

déc, 11 2010

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: Dutch designer Danny Fang has been working in Hong Kong since 2006.

: White and brown gradient low seater from the Gradient collection made of polyethylene.

: The Geppetto chair made of polycarbonate evokes the Ming chair in its simplicity.

: Danny Fang installing his own version of the iconic Hong Kong butcher’s lamp for the Butchers Deluxe charity.

This week Nicely Made in China’s (NMiC) delivery brings us back to Hong Kong, a city which could well be dubbed ‘the city of design’ as it is literally teeming with interesting designers.Danny Fang, as his name does not suggest, is Dutch. Danny’s great grandfather was Chinese, although Danny grew up in Amsterdam and graduated from the Eindhoven Design Academy in The Netherlands in 1998. He decided to move to Hong Kong in 2006 after spending 6 years at the studio of the renowned Marcel Wanders. In answering NMiC questions, he talked about good design, employee shortage in the Pearl river delta and Western misconceptions about China. Read the rest of this entry »

DESIGN, hong kong

ROUGE BAISER ELISE – BED LINEN

décembre 4th, 2010 Posted in BED LINEN, BEIJING, CITIES, EMBROIDERY, HANDMADE, INTERIOR DECORATION, SHANGHAI

déc, 04 2010

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: Elise de Saint Guilhem, Rouge Baiser owner and designer.

: Nicely Made in China bed linen by Rouge Baiser. The theme is called Bouquet.

: Everything is embroidered by hand by a team that Elise, Rouge Baiser’s owner, has built up over the years.

: A seamstresse at work on a prototype in the Shanghai workshop for Rouge Baiser.

If you live in Beijing or Shanghai you may have noticed a couple of small shops, one tucked away in leafy Sanlitun (Beijing), the other in the trendy Fuxing Lu (Shanghai) with an attractive and strange name: Rouge Baiser followed by the name Elise. Nicely Made in China decided to investigate and met with the French owner, Elise de Saint Guilhem, to talk embroidery, mixing colors and the differences -or the lack of- between Chinese and Western clients. Read the rest of this entry »

beijing, decoration, Shanghai