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Kar Liu, the founder of MAISON LUMIERE, has a background in economics, gemology, and jewelry design. He has worked for the French Consulate and leading heavy industry companies in North Africa and India. After his return to China, he taught himself about commodities and metalwork and now seeks to integrate the cultural experiences and traditions that he has observed across the globe into his jewelry designs.

In 2016, Kar Liu founded MAISON LUMIERE – "MAISON" refers to "a design house that focuses on craftsmanship and inheritance" while "LUMIERE" translates to the act of "illuminating traditional heritage using modern modes of expression". The brand has since become one of the leading jewelry empires in China known for combining oriental heritage with modern designs.

Kar Liu became a contract designer for Palace Culture and National Treasure IP with Beijing's Forbidden City and has since released a Forbidden City masterpieces series. An active designer presenting at Shanghai Fashion Week, public figures such as Wang Junkai, Dong Xuan, Yuan Yawei, Yang Chaoyue, and Meng Meiqi have all worn Kar's designs.

Malabar Baby is a lifestyle brand that brings Indian luxury and craftsmanship to baby, you, and your home. Their range of products includes luxurious swaddles, bedding, towels, gifts, and loungewear with a focus on ancient art traditions and sustainable production.

The brand creates quality goods that bring both comfort and joy - helping parents to keep the little ones in their lives comfortable and happy. Malabar Baby believes in creating a positive, empowering, and safe environment for both customers and artisans. Their goal is to bring the heritage of block printing to the modern family around the world.

Masaki Kondo is a Japanese furniture designer and maker, who started his own workshop in 2009. He first learned the basics of woodworking skills in Takayama, Japan, and later on, he mastered advanced techniques while working for Joseph Walsh furniture studio in Ireland.

Inspired by nature and made by hand-carving and special bending techniques, his creations take on unique forms and structures. Images descending upon him inspire him, and he actualizes them in furniture through carving, utilizing plunks with a natural bend, or through laminating. His chairs are diametrically opposed to the simple chairs at the extreme of functional beauty.

Masaki’s works often appear alive and organic. “My curiosity and experience in nature guide me in my work and my craft”, he explains.

Masaya, established by outdoor bronze garden accessories brand, Asia Collection, in 2016, specializes in handcrafted indoor brass furniture and homeware. Using the lost wax casting method, Masaya creates unique pieces with organic shapes and lines rarely found in brass furniture. Designer Apiwat Chitapanya believes in creating design concepts that go “beyond function”. Besides being functional, his designs are also works of art.

With more than 30 years of experience, all pieces are handcrafted every step of the way from sculpting, casting, pouring, welding, polishing, and coloring. Done by hand, every piece has its own individuality that differentiates it a little from every other piece, guaranteeing one-of-a-kind creations. The lost wax method allows Masaya to create brass pieces with organic shapes and curves, which is ultimately the brand identity. Pieces work with other materials, wooden tops, marble tops, or glass tops, depending on the needs of the space.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, then educated in the UK, founder Adam Raby was working in advertising and sports apparel, when he observed that Asia offers no representation of men's swimwear, and thus Māzú Resortwear was born.

Hong Kong has always had an intimate relationship with the sea – local fishermen, distant travelers, and avid sailors have all respected the waters that hug the verdant hills of its coastline. A true blend of tradition and modernity, Māzú Resortwear pays homage to the city's rich maritime history, incorporating traditional colors, local motifs, such as junk boats, and upcycled ocean plastic fabric to create Asia-inspired resort wear.

Māzú Resortwear's fabrication has an extremely soft-to-touch hand feel with a durability and texture of a luxury product, while aglets are handcrafted and gilded to resemble a traditional monkey fist knot. The double needle stitching and point d'arrêt finish indicate that the construction of each pair has been done with such effort as to ensure that the shorts not only look great from the outside, but also look and feel great on the inside.

Māzú Resortwear's luxury hotel and resort collaborations include Aman, COMO, Potato Head, Shangri La, St Regis, the Surin, Alila, Wynn, the Datai, the Ritz Carlton, Four Seasons, and MGM Grand.

Mariane Chan is a former fashion stylist turned ceramicist.

With experience and training in Seto, Japan, and Jingdezhen, China, her work is a combination of traditional techniques and cultures from the east, infused with a fun and contemporary approach from the west. Her mission is to create a fun yet functional tableware and display art pieces for everyday life. 

She has collaborated with different clients including restaurants, clubhouses, VIP lounges, and private residential homes to provide ceramic designs and products that meet individual needs.

mceramics design offers a variety of ceramic products and design services for clients, all proudly made by hand in Hong Kong.

Michell Lie was born and raised in Hong Kong and educated in the USA. While pursuing a career in advertising and branding agencies, Michell taught herself ink brush painting on weekends. Her goal is to make art affordable, charitable, and enjoyable, by selling her art to raise funds for Hong Kong's senior citizens and by creating awareness about the importance of pursuing passion projects. Michell's art and purpose is connecting the dots, bringing people together, and creating social impact through modern ink art.

Michell's works combine thick, broad Chinese ink brushstrokes, fine ink pen, water-color, and acrylic. Her pieces course with a fluid, dynamic, expressive energy. Michell's artistry combines Eastern and Western media and forms, and conveys gentleness within power.

Ming is a creator in mixed media: in three dimensions as a designer of watches and other products, and in two as a photographer and artist. His work seeks to abstract ideas into minimalist but layered derivations of light, color and form that look beyond the subject to the form of light itself. The boundaries blur between real and imagined, photograph and painting. He is currently based in Kuala Lumpur and is the founder / CEO of Horologer MING, a GPHG-winning watch brand.

As a Hasselblad's Global Ambassador and Chief of Strategy, Advisor to the Board of DJI, Nikon Professional Services member, consultant to Carl Zeiss AG and Editor of CLICK! Magazine, Malaysia, Ming has a diverse international client base including Koenigsegg, Nissan, Chun Wo Engineering and Construction, Jaeger Le-Coultre, Van Cleef & Arpels, Maitres du Temps, Richemont, the Swatch Group, Hijjas Kasturi Architects, Tange Associates Architects, Sunway Group, Maybank, Eastern & Oriental, the Boston Consulting Group, several Michelin star chefs including Fergus Henderson and Bruno Menard, the City of London, and Moon Travel Guides.

His photography works are presented printed on large format archival canvas for maximum impact, and individually checked and signed by the artist.

Based in the home of the traditional Japanese "Sendai-Tansu" or warrior's chest of drawers, MONMAYA is one of the most renowned brands producing authentic chests. Having practiced and preserved the craft for over seven generations, the brand has developed unmatched skill and reputation in the furniture manufacturing sector.

MONMAYA is known for using traditional materials like Japanese grown timber, Joboji lacquer (extracted from trees in the Iwate prefecture, Japan), and artisan-made tools that are spirited by their ingenuity to create timeless designs. MONMAYA also provides repair services to turn old inheritance into functional statement pieces.

Until the early 1920s, "Sendai-Tansu" manufacturing was mainly done through the division of labor. It was the third successor Tamizo, who wanted the "Tansu" craftsmen to carry out their craft with responsibility and pride. He started a system where one whole cabinet can be custom-made and repaired. Through the system, many craftsmen were trained to top standards. In inheriting his belief, MONMAYA continues to train craftsmen and manufacture no different from the past, as they must enable such traditional skills to be inherited into the future.

Li Zhoujing, independent designer, and the founder of Mooyee, has over 10 years of experience in product design. His passion for traditional Chinese crafts, especially the ceramics and pottery from Jingdezhen, inspired him to create his own unique design language. He founded the company in 2013 in Hong Kong, China and has since successfully broken into the Mainland Chinese market.

Mooyee is dedicated to creating simple and high-end home furnishing products born from the marriage of tradition with modernity. The objects are rooted in traditional practices, yet the designs are highly creative and contemporary. Li Zhoujing constantly collaborates with local artisans and artists, and includes amongst its stable of collaborators beautiful brands, such as Shanghai Tang, M+ Museum and Design China.

MoreTea Hong Kong is a premium tea store based in Hong Kong. Founded with a passion for excellent tea that is both delicious and sustainable, MoreTea brings the best teas from around the world into a fusion of cultures and tastes - emblematic of MoreTea’s Hong Kong roots.

The name “More Tea” (「續茶」), using the Chinese characters「續」(continue) and 「茶」(tea), represents the brand’s goal to push this industry forward for a new age and bring more premium tea to customers.

Ms. Chu was founded in 2016 by Cindy Chu, a chemical engineer specializing in cosmetic science who is passionate about green chemicals (chemicals that are environmentally friendly) and the chemical make-up of products that she uses, eats, and consumes daily.

Cindy graduated from the University of Toronto in Applied Science and Chemical Engineering. She has been formulating her own skin care and personal care using naturally derived and environment friendly ingredients since that many of her friends and family have benefited from.

After she gave birth to her baby, who suffered from eczema, she tried looking for all possible ways to ease her condition. She tried all the lotions available in the market and followed the pediatrician’s guidelines but without improvement. Feeling frustrated and desperate, she studied the east and the west medical journals and with her skincare science knowledge, she developed a natural baby balm that can ease baby’s itches immediately and eventually heal the eczema. The baby balm also marked the birth of her skincare company.

Today, her product line includes shampoo, conditioner, body lotion, sun tan lotion, lip balm, bug spray, massage oil, facial cleanser, toner + serum, hand cream, as well as skincare sets for mom + baby, all of which are natural, organic, and food grade with 100% plant-derived formulations.

Founded by Sean, Allen + Meng Du from Beijing in 2021, MU16 is a young start-up crystalware brand re-defining wine, whiskey, champagne, cognac, and drinking glasses. ​

MU16 deeply believes a delicate piece of crystal glassware can adorn one's beautiful moments in life.​

The MU16 brand is affiliated to Beijing Huayu Culture Media Co., Ltd. and committed to being a living utensils brand that produces homeware mainly made of lead-free crystal. The highly pure quartz used in their products obtained from Asian mountains offers improved hardness and clarity. MU16 proudly merges cutting artistry and hand-blowing techniques with modern design technologies. ​

Sean Kong graduated from the Department of Industrial Design, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, and is known as the recipient of the Red Dot Supreme Award with an Oscar-winning rate of only 1.2% in the design industry.

Mylène Viggers is a French artist based in Singapore specializing in plein air (outdoor) oil painting.

Whether adventuring deep into the jungle with her easel, paints, and brushes, working in her garden, or at a local park or beach, she loves to observe the optimism and joy of the nature that surrounds her and to capture the scenes and colors on her canvas. With bold and instinctive brush strokes, applying deliciously thick oil paint, her paintings communicate a sense of the abundance and exuberance of the tropical plants and trees that grow profusely around her. She lets her imagination burst out through the use of a palette of bright colors.

Mylène moved with her family from Paris to Singapore in 2019. She lives in a black-and-white bungalow next to the jungle and is surrounded by lush greenery which is a huge source of inspiration for her. She has filled the white walls of her home with her work, all the better to bring the life force of nature into her interior.

Mylène is also now traveling more broadly in Asia, taking her painting kit wherever she goes and encapsulating those souvenirs on canvas.