Gu is a brand-new independent original furniture and home brand founded by designer Yan Xin Shan Tong (Liu Yi). In 2018, it took almost a year to design a dozen furniture items in advance. It took a longer time to conceive and draft. In the future, Gu will continue to improve the product system and explore more attempts.
Gu's design is not for business and sales, but for the pursuit of an extreme, high-quality, and idealized life aesthetics. The purpose of the establishment is purely for the integration and innovative application of Eastern philosophical thoughts and visual systems, and for the exploration and research of a more optimized humanistic living space. It is also Yanxin Shantong's own understanding and continuous exploration of aesthetics for many years And pursuit.
As a Chinese, I like Eastern culture very much. In fact, if I carefully study contemporary Western furniture and household goods, many structures and lines can see the shadow of traditional Chinese modeling. When I first entered the furniture industry, my main design direction was the field of youth and children's furniture, which is a very western vision system. However, almost all the furniture for teenagers and children in China is still a very western visual system.
Later, I began to be dissatisfied with this single field, so I jumped out of this system and slowly began to embark on the road of a hundred styles. After exploring for many years, with the growth and enrichment of experience, I think more about life and philosophy, and gradually like Eastern culture more and more. Western art and visual systems pay attention to the perfection of skills and techniques, while the artistic conception of Eastern culture is another realm in my opinion. In vision, it is not simply given a meaning, but a philosophical system, the expression of cosmology and values, which often makes the work more absorbed.
It can be said that the "minimalist" East is the source!
The paintings of Song Huizong, the verses of Li Bai, the theories of Lao Zi and hundreds of scholars, and the furniture of the Ming Dynasty all express complex things in an extremely concise and simple way. Hetu Luoshu and Yin and Yang Bagua are good examples. With such simple patterns and symbols, they express the growth and changes of all things in the world.
Therefore, Gu 㵹 and Yan Xin Shan Tong chose oriental visual elements to create