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An innovative sound lab and sound design brand, DBA is home to the award-winning, patented Resonance Disc. The revolutionary appliance extends the decay of a sound signal and improves stereo imaging as compared with traditional boxed speakers.

Based in Hong Kong, DBA strives for innovation in every product and guarantees an immersive sound experience for any space – from the comfort of your home to an amphitheater full of people and music.

The DBA appliances have received several awards, including the Grand Prize at GBA Cultural Creativity Award (2020), Silver Award at the 4th China Ceramic Art Design Exhibition (2021), Bronze for Product Design at HKDA GDA, and Merit at DFA Design for Asia Awards 2022.

Melvin Ong, the founder of DESINERE, graduated with First-Class Honors from Central St. Martin’s College of Art & Design in 2010. While in the UK, Melvin had the opportunity to work under the tutelage of established designers such as Chris Lefteri and Reiko Kaneko. Melvin has also exhibited his personal work at Tent London in 2010 and at the Milan Salone Satellite in 2011.

In 2012, he moved back to Singapore to establish his own studio, DESINERE, which approaches design through a quiet reflection of relationships between items, people, and experiences to create authentic, honest objects that are refreshingly unexpected. The brand launched its first collection at Design Tide Tokyo 2012, and later at Tortona Design Week in Milan in 2013.

DESINERE has also been an active participant of the annual “Singaplural” Design Week organized by SFIC (Singapore Furniture Industries Council). DESINERE was also part of the team that worked on the first collection of Singapore Icons porcelainware, produced by Supermama and Kihara, which was awarded the Presidents Design Award in 2013. In 2014, Melvin was named ‘Rising Asian Talent’ by Maison et Objet Asia.

DORMU prides itself on delivering science-supported sleep solutions to help you sleep better and reduce stress.

When Jake Glibbery and Matt Coulthard, two British expatriates moved to Hong Kong, the definitive 24-hour city, they quickly learned how easy it can be to burn the candle at both ends whilst neglecting essential sleep and recharging. With experiences of sleep deprivation and acute insomnia, they sought a variety of sleep aids and quick fixes to improve the quality of their sleep rest, but to little avail. Inspired by their research into the therapeutic benefits of weighted blankets, they decided to design their own range of products with the goal of marrying luxury feel with sustainable materials.

After launching their first weighted blanket, Jake and Matt have since expanded the DORMU range to include blankets, bedding, and pillows. Jake and Matt are passionate about helping others not only to get more sleep but to get higher quality sleep every night.

The word “dropenling” translates to “giving back for the betterment of all sentient beings” in Tibetan.

Dropenling artisans, Tibetan residents of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and Yunnan province, produce a range of authentic Tibetan crafts: woven textiles and carpets, painted wood furnishings and objects, stone carvings, leather bags, jewelry, dolls, and toys. The purchase of a Dropenling products directly supports Tibetan artisans and their families and helps to preserve and perpetuate their culture.

Nourished by deep and spiritual Tibetan culture, social enterprise, and yak wool heritage, Dropenling is a retail partner of the luxury Lodges and Linka Hotels of Songtsam - nestled within natural, mysterious, and untouched sanctuaries amongst the four sacred Kunlun, Karakoram Range-Tanggula, Nyenchen Tanglha, and Himalayan mountain ranges, from glacier lakes to infinite plateaus.

Shuchang Liu, founder of DUYIYAO, is a ceramist based in Jingdezhen, China. Since the beginning of his practice, he has devoted himself to the study of the history and culture of Jingdezhen’s traditional high-temperature colored glaze ceramics and to the research on the city’s original glazed clay. He combines the ancient techniques of ceramic making with innovation, paying attention to the details of the outlines and the supple texture of the glaze on every object. The result is an iconic and unique interpretation of the Chinese ‘Lang’ red ceramic teaware which is bright, delicate, and translucent.

Shuchang Liu has received a number of awards for his designs, including the Gold and Bronze Awards at the Shenzhen Global Tea Fair in 2021 and 2020 respectively.

ease studio is a Bangkok-based multidisciplinary design studio founded in 2014 by Nichepak Torsutkanok and Wanus Choketaweesak.

The studio is an offshoot of a 30-year-old family-owned embroidery business that blends craft, technology, and design together. Through experimenting with machines down to its coding system and exploring traditional hand embroidery and crafts technique, ease studio creates an array of interior decoration products from furniture to site-specific art installations. ease studio is known for their obsession with colors, textures, and materials to create new experiences for their tactile art and home products.

ease studio has installations at the Rosewood Bangkok and Shangri-La Kunming. The studio has won multiple design awards internationally including the Design Excellence Award (DEmark Award 2015) for “Tex-Tile” in the lifestyle category and for “Shading” in the graphics category; Elle Decor Thailand Design Award 2015/2016 in wall covering category; Design Plant Award 2016 for Best Product in Thailand Intenational Furniture Fair. ease studio was also selected as one of 6 Rising Asian Talents in Maison & Objet Asia 2016. ease studio currently has installations at the Rosewood Bangkok and Shangri-La Kunming.

Emotive Soil is a design and craft studio with presence in Jingdezhen, Shanghai and London. The studio is established by Chinese designers Yefeng Lyu and Kai Li, who graduated from the Royal College of Art in London. Their collaborative partnership began when they first started their field research at Jingdezhen.

The aim of their design practice is to understand ‘how people create’ in different contexts – by observing how design is entangled with material, culture, geography, and history. Yefeng and Kai do research around local handicraft in different areas of China and make related objects as a method to document what they see, feel, and think. During the design process, the focus of the studio shifts fluidly between the designer, maker, narrator, etc, allowing them to create from diverse perspectives. The studio covers the areas of product design, furniture design, spatial design and installations.

One of the most widely grown crops across Thailand, cassava farming always ends with an excessive supply of the crop, often contributing to waste and pollution. Eqologist offers a strong vision in bringing a new material that is both environmentally friendly and creates value to the Thai agriculture industry. Anon’s passion is the upgrade of cassava as a design material with aesthetic value.

After cassava is processed in a high-pressure vacuum, Eqologist leverages its solid fiber structure, which becomes rigid yet lightweight with an interesting translucence, to create unique light fixtures. The pentagon form of the lamps not only represents a strengthened structure but also reflects the shape of the cassava leaf, its inspiration.

Cassava is a natural material that does not secrete toxins and can be 100% recycled. Under suitable conditions, cassava will naturally decompose within 2-3 weeks.

Everyday Humans was originally started by Charlotte Pienaar in 2018 under the name “Everyday For Every Body”. Pienaar participated in the Target Takeoff accelerator program in early 2019 and re-launched the brand as Everyday Humans in June 2020.

Everyday Humans is an award-winning inclusive beauty brand that makes comfortable, conscious sunscreens with skincare benefits, for all #HumansOutside. Proudly Asia-based with a global mindset, their range is now available at Target, CVS, Sephora APAC, JCPenney, Shopbop, Urban Outfitters Group, Revolve, Beauty Bay, and at select North American, European, and Asian retailers.

Faux was established by Louis Papachristou and architect Hugh Zimmern in 2006 in Hong Kong in a tiny 300 square foot showroom. Today, Faux is a thriving boutique design house and interior design firm with a growing design and production team who work out of a 3,000 square foot showroom in Ap Lei Chau. 

Faux designs original art-based products and homeware by taking the finest materials nature has to offer, combining them with original designs by well-known artists and exceptional craftsmanship. Passionate supporters of the arts, Louis and Hugh set up Artists’ Editions at Faux to marry their expertise in the world of architecture and interiors - textiles, ceramics and rugs – with works by contemporary artists, such as Tsang Kin Wah, Simon Birch, and Firenze Lai.

Faux develops branded gifts for its corporate clients including HSBC, Swire, and Jardines.

Forbidden Hill is a lifestyle brand creating contemporary homeware and jewelry with a multicultural signature that draws from the rich visual tapestry of Southeast Asia. The brand is based in Singapore and was co-founded by David Aumonier and Ruth Pestana. Originally from France and Malaysia respectively with backgrounds in design and business, the husband-and-wife team was inspired by Ruth’s multicultural Straits heritage and launched the brand in 2018 to celebrate the cultures and craftsmanship of Southeast Asia.

The brand’s striking lacquerware collections are designed in Singapore before being brought to life by carefully selected lacquer artisans in Vietnam. The illustrations on the two-tone pieces include symbolic creatures such as the Garuda and the mythical lion seen at the founding of Singapore, as well as elements from local culture, such as the lanterns of Vietnam and Cirebon batik from Indonesia.

Known as Bukit Larangan when Singapore was a bustling port on the Silk Road of the Sea, the original Forbidden Hill was the royal residence at the centre of a thriving maritime kingdom. Today, Forbidden Hill blends the rich cultures and craft traditions of Southeast Asia with contemporary style and materials, in the same spirit of cultural diversity and invention of that adventurous era.

futchi is a scent-inspired name borrowed from the phrase ‘Fugace Litchi’ (the experience of peeling lychee) and re-assembled into a new word, which coincidentally also translates to ‘fortune’ in Chinese. futchi creates scents that bring luck and best wishes.

The brand was founded by four artists from Central Saint Martin’s College of Arts and Design in London. Their philosophy is to design and create "not just good but unheard of scents” combining art with consumer lifestyle. futchi works with ceramic crafters and internationally renowned perfumers to create their unique fragrances and candles.

G.O.D. (Goods Of Desire) is the quintessential Hong Kong lifestyle brand providing unique home accessories, fashion and Hong Kong inspired gifts. 住好啲 literally means "to live better" and it phonetically resembles the characters, “G.O.D.” in Hong Kong's local Cantonese dialect. G.O.D. designs are inspired by the vibrant culture of this energetic city where east meets west, and age-old traditions meet cutting-edge technology. With humor and creativity, they turn everyday subjects into truly extraordinary objects.

A leading voice in design, arts, creativity and entrepreneurship in Hong Kong, Douglas Young is the CEO and creative force behind G.O.D. He is often called upon by media outlets like CNN, Time magazine, and The Wall Street Journal to share his views on Hong Kong culture and identity. He hopes, through his work, to inspire future generations of designers to seek inspiration from Hong Kong and foster pride in the community.

GATO MIKIO-SHOUTEN was founded by Komakichi Gato in 1908 in the Yamanaka Kaga Onsen area in the Ishikawa Prefecture. The Ishikawa prefecture has a 450-year-long history of lacquerware products and has an ideal environment for its production. 

GATO MIKIO-SHOUTEN was originally a woodworking plant with its founder being a highly-skilled woodturner. The second generation of the Gato family started to develop lacquer skills and added them to their portfolio. By the time the third generation took over, the brand was designing high-quality lacquerware in addition to the fine-grain wood products.

Inheriting the policy of the "kijiya" (Japanese woodturners), GATO MIKIO-SHOUTEN's craftsmanship is particular about the perfection of wood grain, which is the basis of lacquerware. In the age of mass production, GATO MIKIO-SHOUTEN still works according to the traditional ways in order to preserve the artwork, craftsmanship, and local culture. The designs, however, have evolved over the generations to keep up with the times and demands. The brand ensures that its crafts are not only authentic but also suitable for contemporary use. Each skillfully crafted wood or lacquer product is an ode to the region it comes from and the traditions that birthed it.

GATO MIKIO-SHOUTEN's Karmi Tea Canisters received the Good Design Award and Prize of Smaller Enterprise Agency's Director, Germany's Design Plus Award, and won a silver medal of the world's most authoritative design award, the Designpreis Deutschland in Germany, among more than 1,500 other candidates. The name "Karmi" refers to one of the most renowned haiku poets, Matsuo Basho's haikai philosophy, "karumi (軽み)." The products express an open-hearted state of mind that we could feel in our everyday lives, without overly elaborating on knowledge and techniques. The products also represent the philosophy of beautiful design that exudes from the inside of the product.

Genevieve Ang, better known as gellyvieve, is a maker, who primarily expresses through clay and spatial installations. Stumbling upon clay at the age of 10 and eventually graduating with a Masters of Architecture degree, she sees her practice as playing and building infinite worlds.

Fascinated with how clay is used everywhere, she collaborated with brands from an array of different disciplines ranging from confectionary to environmental causes, such as KKI sweets, Our Second Nature, Waste Refinery by Kinetics, and more. She is always experimenting and pushing the limits of what clay can and will be.

On most days, she thinks of herself as a toymaker pursuing the middle point between art and design.

Geochang Yugi, a tableware brand based in South Korea, works with a unique technique that has been passed down from generation to generation over 100 years. Established in 1924, the brand creates tableware that reveals the original value of the materials, unlike products that are produced mechanically at a factory.

Each product by Geochang Yugi is handcrafted by an artisan. The signature engraved on every piece is a mark that represents the uniqueness of the product.

Geochang Yugi bronzeware products are made with high-quality casting. The fine machining of castings makes the surface smooth and easy to maintain. The material suppresses and sterilizes harmful germs, making for a healthy dining table.

Gerel Gilvaa was founded by Mona and Jenna, two Mongolian entrepreneurs united in their love for nature, crystals, and essential oils. The aim was to create a brand inspired by their homeland that leveraged the healing energy of nature and would inculcate a love for all things natural in people across the globe.

Gerel Gilvaa means “light” in Mongolian. Mona and Jenna wish for Gerel Gilvaa to be a ray of light that heals each body it touches upon, and helps each soul find its own inner light. The products present nature in its most native state through original design and fine craftsmanship. The brand integrates and contrasts the roughness and free form of natural elements with chic and modern textures.

Good Good Ceramics is a pottery studio based in Singapore embracing a rigorous yet playful approach to contemporary ceramic art. Each work is a unique piece within an ever-evolving family of forms handmade by the founders, Quek See Hong and Elena Hasbun-Quek.

Both functional and abstract, the collection of homewares and decorative vessels plays between drawing and sculpture, featuring textures and patterns applied in intentional dialogues with wheel-thrown pottery. The broad range of motifs, drawing from affinities for minimalist repetition and patterns found in nature, find fresh ambiguity and tactility in their ceramic forms. The studio’s work is direct and spatial, exploring relationships between perception, construction, and tradition.

grado is a modular office furniture brand headquartered in Hangzhou with 12,000 square meters of production facilities in Deqing, sourcing the highest quality materials globally -- fabric from Denmark, wool from New Zealand, Italian leather, wood from Finland, Russia, and the USA, and chemicals from Sweden.​

Founded in 2014, the brand’s clientele spans across 20 countries, including names like Philips, Adidas, WeWork, Standard Chartered Bank, LaNeige, Alibaba Group, ICBC, Geely, NIO, and Tencent + Baidu.​

​grado has exhibited at the Milan Design Week, Salone del Mobile Milano, Maison&Objet Paris, CiFF, Design Beijing + Shanghai. The brand is also a winner of 30+ global accolades, including A’ Design, Red Star, Good, Iconic, Kapok, and Red Dot Design Awards.​

Guang-Yu Zhang is currently based in Shanghai, China. He studied fine art at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. In 2012, he received his BFA from Central Saint Martin’s College of Arts and Design, London.

Saatchi Art recognized Guang-Yu as one of their notable emerging artists and featured him in their ‘One to Watch’ list. They also selected him as one of the "Best Artists of 2014". Guang-Yu was a finalist in the ArtGemini Prize exhibition in 2013 at London’s Rebecca Hossack Gallery and was selected for the international emerging artists' exhibition “Continental Shift” at the Saatchi Gallery in April 2014. His works were displayed on digital screens for the exhibition "Source Collage" at the Tate Britain in London in August 2014.

He has exhibited at the Woolff Gallery (London), Shou Gallery (Switzerland), Art Palm Beach, Red Dot Art Fair + Scope Art Fair (Miami Beach), Asia Contemporary Art Fair (Hong Kong), Asian Young Artists Art Festival (Seoul), Chi K11 Art Museum (Shanghai), Gallery Different (London), Rich Mix (London), Mile End Art Pavilion (London), and Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery (London).