A Temple on the Move
A Taiwanese Palanquin in the Bai Win CollectionAt first glance, this extraordinary object might appear to be elaborately carved furniture. It was something very different: a palanquin, built to carry…
Roots and Foundations of Taiwanese Furniture-1
Taiwan in Retrospect ~ Article 1How an Island Created Its Own Furniture TraditionTaiwanese furniture was not a mere echo of southern China’s artisanal legacy. It is a story of arrival,…
The Artistic Ambition of Shanghai Advertising
When Commercial Art Became Fine Art ~ Article 6Beyond Selling the ProductHaving explored origins, fashion, modern life and artists, we arrive at works that push the genre even further. These…
Every Artist Leaves a Fingerprint
Learning to Recognize the Hands That Painted Shanghai ~ Article 5Behind Every Beautiful Woman Was an Artist Shanghai calendar posters can easily be mistaken for anonymous commercial images produced primarily…
Shanghai Advertising Art: Posters that Sold a Dream
Posters Sold more than Products — They Sold the Dream of Modern Living ~ Article 4 SKU: MI-2121 – Hu Boxiang From the Woman to Her World In the previous…
How Advertising Created the Face of a New China
Painting the Modern Woman ~ Article 3More Than Beautiful Faces In our previous article we explored how Shanghai became China's great center of commercial advertising art. Yet among its most…
Shanghai Transformed Advertising
"How one city transformed advertising into art." ~ Article 2From Experiment to IdentityThe first article explored the early artistic language that emerged in northern China before Shanghai became the center…
Before Shanghai: Early Chinese Advertising Posters
Ask most collectors where Chinese advertising posters began, and the answer is almost always Shanghai. It is an understandable assumption. By the late 1920s and 1930s, Shanghai had become China's…
The Gilded Mystery of Liao Dynasty Funerary Masks
The Funerary Masks of the Liao DynastyAmong the Khitan people of the Liao dynasty, the dead could be prepared for burial with extraordinary care. In some elite tombs, elaborate clothing,…
Stewardship Rather Than Ownership
This is the sixth and final article in our series Rooms Remember from the Bai Win collection. As we conclude the series, we invite you to explore what these enduring…
The Furniture That Watched Generations Pass
This article is part 5 of a 6-part series featuring Rooms Remember from the Bai Win collection. In the week ahead, we will continue exploring the stories carried by these…
The Rooms These Objects Once Knew
This article is part 4 of a 6-part series featuring Rooms Remember from the Bai Win collection.In the weeks ahead, we will continue exploring the stories carried by these pieces—from…