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Life with Craftsmanship

Life comprises the home and those living within it. A growing number of artisans and brands are utilizing rare materials to create masterpieces that showcase the spirit of pure craftspersonship while also bringing joy to their everyday users.

The Artistic Life by Hermès

Since 1920, Hermès has created home decor characterized by limitless creativity and eye-grabbing aesthetics. It first released daily necessaries such as blankets and picnic baskets in 1923. Through these products, Hermès lends a certain artisan air to the spaces in which they’re used.

Hermès was initially a manufacturer of high-quality harnesses. These earned a stellar reputation for the brand and became the inspiration of many Hermès’ creations to come. By combining precious materials, excellent techniques, and boundless creativity, Hermès has created countless pieces of elegant and timeless décor over the years, arousing a joie de vivre through leather, wood, metal, bamboo fibers, cashmere and lacres.

These home décor collections are also representative of Hermès’ aesthetics overall. Its bespoke jewelry cabinet, the Curiosities, is a fine example of this. The cabinet is able to store over 100 pieces of jewelry and features a delicate and unexpected mechanism for every drawer, making the piece truly an artisan work—and one that many people would dream for. It’s an exquisite partner for women’s high jewelries and accessories, and in addition to its delicate interior design it is equipped with travel bags and boxes.

The Équipages d’Hermès collection, meanwhile, is inspired by the brand’s legendary harnesses. The idea is simple but contains amazing creativity. Through the mixing and matching of various materials, including leather, wood, wicker and copper, Hermès creates astonishing pieces. The Diligence, a serving trolley inspired by old carriages, is an indispensible item in a luxury house. It allows the owner to put wines, collections, flowers or potted plants. This exhibits the unique tastes of the owner and upgrades the aesthetics of life.

Louis Vuitton’s Nomadic Spirit

In 1854, Louis Vuitton was founded in Paris, starting to sell its bespoke leather goods and suitcases in Paris. It then became famous for its pragmatic products that met all needs of traveler. The development of Louis Vuitton’s suitcases records the changes of the society, fashion, and tastes of art. Now, these classic creations for travelers become the inspiration of its Objets Nomades collection.

With the sense of beauty and various modeling taken from suitcases, with complex craftsmanship and well-balanced designs, the Objets Nomades collection shows that Louis Vuitton pays much attention to every detail. The designers carefully consider not only the modeling but also the practicality while creating the house décor in this collection; plus the mastery craftsmanship of Louis Vuitton, the Objets Nomades collection becomes brilliant and attractive, showing the core spirits of the brand.

The Lounge Chair of this collection is inspired by Louis Vuitton’s folding bed suitcase in 1878. This suitcase could contain a chair—and realized the nomadic spirits of Louis Vuitton. The Lounge Chair has cylindrical parts made with carbon fibers, which strengthen and lighten this product. The designer further paves soft cowhide and mink outside and inside the cylindrical parts. This Lounge Chair is easy for folding, assembling and carrying. The leather straps to tie up different parts will become old and plain with time—reminding us the classical travel collections by Louis Vuitton.

The structure of Concertina Chair is inspired by the mechanical design of concertinas. The designer puts a flower-shaped covered by Nomade leather seat on the chair legs made by elms and metals. This Concertina Chair can be folded to carry easily; it is also comfortable to sit and has beautiful look.

Through the wonderful craftsmanship of Louis Vuitton, the Objets Nomades collection successfully redefines the nomadic spirits.

The Perfect Ideas of Carl Hansen & Søn

When discussing the spirits of craftsman, we must not miss Carl Hansen & Søn. As one of the oldest furniture manufacturers in Denmark, it tries to show the original appearances of the materials. The craftsmen arouse the life of woods, making all products more natural and simple.

The key turning point of Carl Hansen & Søn was the cooperation with the architects, Hans J. Wegner, in 1950. They announced the brand’s first design of chair—CH24, nicknamed Y Chair. The back of this chair was inspired by the lines of chair rings of chairs in the Ming Dynasty. The brand used steam to heat up and bend metals, and combined the back and armrest together, giving the Y Chair smooth and elegant lines. The seat made of paper fiber was weaved by hands. These designs were a breakthrough and a milestone in the 1950s.

Even now, we can still easily recognize the Y Chair by its unforgettable design of the back. It’s stable, comfortable and durable. The seat of paper fiber is still made by hands, with over 100 processes. After 68 years since its birth, the Y Chair is still the idealistic design and perfect furniture.

Life with Craftsmanship

Life is composed with the house and people living in the house. The craftsman and mastery designers from different brands carefully apply the rare materials to create legendary and wonderful masterpieces, showing the spirits of various craftsmanships, and making happy daily life for families.

The Artistic Life by Hermès

Since 1920, Hermès has positively created house decors with its limitless creativity and fascinating aesthetics. It released daily necessaries such as blankets and picnic baskets in 1923. Through these products, Hermès hopes to create an artisan atmosphere in houses.

In the beginning, Hermès was a manufacture of high-quality harnesses. The harnesses had earned high reputation for this brand, and become inspirations of many Hermès’ creation. Through the combination of precious materials, excellent techniques, and limitless imagination, Hermès has created many elegant house décor collections. It successfully arouses the power of life in leathers, woods without painted, metals, bamboo fibers, Cashmere wools or colorful lacres, creating an immortal and classic atmosphere.

The house décor collections completely show the aesthetics of Hermès, such as its bespoke jewelry cabinet, The CURIOSITÉS. This cabinet is able to store over 100 pieces of jewelry. The designer further adds delicate and unexpected mechanism for every drawer, which make this cabinet an artisan work—and a piece that women dream for. This exquisite partner for women’s high jewelries and accessories also has delicate interior design; and is equipped with some travel bags and boxes for the owner.

The Équipages d’Hermès collection is inspired by the harness made by the brand. The idea is simple but contains amazing creativity. Through the mix-match of various materials, including leather, wood, wicker, and copper, Hermès creates astonishing pieces. The DILIGENCE, a serving trolley inspired by old carriages, is an indispensible item in a luxury house. It allows the owner to put wines, collections, flowers or potted plants. This exhibits the unique tastes of the owner and upgrades the aesthetics of life.

Louis Vuitton’s Nomadic Spirit

In 1854, Louis Vuitton was founded in Paris, starting to sell its bespoke leather goods and suitcases in Paris. It then became famous for its pragmatic products that met all needs of traveler. The development of Louis Vuitton’s suitcases records the changes of the society, fashion, and tastes of art. Now, these classic creations for travelers become the inspiration of its Objets Nomades collection.

With the sense of beauty and various modeling taken from suitcases, with complex craftsmanship and well-balanced designs, the Objets Nomades collection shows that Louis Vuitton pays much attention to every detail. The designers carefully consider not only the modeling but also the practicality while creating the house décor in this collection; plus the mastery craftsmanship of Louis Vuitton, the Objets Nomades collection becomes brilliant and attractive, showing the core spirits of the brand.

The Lounge Chair of this collection is inspired by Louis Vuitton’s folding bed suitcase in 1878. This suitcase could contain a chair—and realized the nomadic spirits of Louis Vuitton. The Lounge Chair has cylindrical parts made with carbon fibers, which strengthen and lighten this product. The designer further paves soft cowhide and mink outside and inside the cylindrical parts. This Lounge Chair is easy for folding, assembling and carrying. The leather straps to tie up different parts will become old and plain with time—reminding us the classical travel collections by Louis Vuitton.

The structure of Concertina Chair is inspired by the mechanical design of concertinas. The designer puts a flower-shaped covered by Nomade leather seat on the chair legs made by elms and metals. This Concertina Chair can be folded to carry easily; it is also comfortable to sit and has beautiful look.

Through the wonderful craftsmanship of Louis Vuitton, the Objets Nomades collection successfully redefines the nomadic spirits.

The Perfect Ideas of Carl Hansen & Søn

When discussing the spirits of craftsman, we must not miss Carl Hansen & Søn. As one of the oldest furniture manufacturers in Denmark, it tries to show the original appearances of the materials. The craftsmen arouse the life of woods, making all products more natural and simple.

The key turning point of Carl Hansen & Søn was the cooperation with the architects, Hans J. Wegner, in 1950. They announced the brand’s first design of chair—CH24, nicknamed Y Chair. The back of this chair was inspired by the lines of chair rings of chairs in the Ming Dynasty. The brand used steam to heat up and bend metals, and combined the back and armrest together, giving the Y Chair smooth and elegant lines. The seat made of paper fiber was weaved by hands. These designs were a breakthrough and a milestone in the 1950s.

Even now, we can still easily recognize the Y Chair by its unforgettable design of the back. It’s stable, comfortable and durable. The seat of paper fiber is still made by hands, with over 100 processes. After 68 years since its birth, the Y Chair is still the idealistic design and perfect furniture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 39.9.106.206 (talk) 23:38, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Chasing the Lights in Finland

“Wide-spread they stand, the Northland’s dusky forests. Ancient, mysterious, brooding savage dreams; within them dwells the Forest’s mighty god. And wood-sprites in the gloom weave magic secrets,” writes renowned Finnish composer Jean Sibelius in his last work, Tapiola. Although the hotel wasn’t worthy of its name Aurora, it reflected the music master’s symphonic poem, playing a solitary yet charming tune in the nearby coniferous forest. Located 100 kilometers north from the Arctic Circle, Luosto isn’t a town that is frequented by visitors except during the solar maximum period, which comes around about every 10 years. At peak season, business-minded people, Northern Lights photography enthusiasts and tourists who don’t know better visit Luosto, where the Aurora Borealis is said to be visible over 200 evenings every year. The hotel was called the Aurora Chalet and it was the most authentic Northern Lights hotel when I visited. Next to the bed was a Nokia dial pad phone – a total stranger to those born in the ’90s or after. The purpose of the phone was to remind the occupants when to move their heads towards the north so that they could experience the Northern Lights right from their warm beds. Unfortunately, it never needed to be used. I flew to Lapland, where no bird is in flight over a thousand hills and not one foot-print is in sight on myriads paths, just as a famous Chinese poem depicts. Although getting there was expensive, I reminded myself that the luxury in this part of Scandinavia wouldn’t be like that of the Alps. There would be no champagne, strawberries, Persian silk carpet or Czech chandelier. I was instead hoping for a warm bedroom, a comfortable king-size bed, a good meal and a personal hot spring. That couldn’t be too much to ask for, right? Looking around, there was only one hotel staff member and a bell at the reception desk. I wondered whether it was normal that no one else was present. The lobby featured a souvenir area, and there was no elevator in sight. The receptionist reminded me to have my room key on me at all times, since no one was working between 10pm and 7am. I started to get suspicious, especially seeing what’s outside – a massive coniferous forest. It wasn’t clear how we could appreciate the Northern Lights when the woods were blocking much of the sky to the north. I could accept that the king-sized bed was composed of two singles, that the TV was an old cathode-ray tube one and the fireplace with help-your-self firewood. But to claim that visitors could see the Northern Lights right from their beds was a little too much. After hauling my luggage to my room on the top floor, I settled down with a cup of tea while figuring out how to watch the Finnish MOD and get the fireplace working. It was then that the street lights toward the north of the hotel were turned on. Would they be on the whole night? Yes. Were they in the way no matter what room in the hotel you’re in? Yes. As such, would I be able to see the Northern Lights? Hmm. As it turned out, I wasn’t the first person to have protested the arrangement. A hotel staffer who’d just finished their shift took out a map and told me that, if I were to walk eastward for 10 minutes, I would reach a lake, and after another 5 minutes I would reach a mountain. I wondered if I got myself all dressed up against the cold, ran out with a flashlight in one hand and a camera tripod in another, and then connected the shutter release cable… would Aurora Borealis be there for me? To look on the bright side, the dinner was truly delicious: reindeer meat on mashed potatoes with berries and pickles on the side. This might have been the third plate of reindeer meat I had eaten that week, but it was better than that at the Karasjok Rica hotel and the Igloo in Lapland. The steak tartare I had as an appetizer was fresh, and the berry pudding dessert was just sweet enough. The young chef was flirting with the receptionist, spreading some young vibes in silent Lapland. The scenery in the Arctic Circle reflected not just breath-taking views, but also challenges of local life, even for high-income North European countries. The Nokia didn’t ring all night. To be honest, I hadn’t believed it would, anyway. Who would be staring at the sky if no one was working throughout the night? It reminded me of the unpunctuality of the buses and trains in Finland. Later, I saw many visitors complaining online about the Nokia not doing its job. During the day when I wasn’t chasing the lights, I went to the nearby Pyha-Luosto National Park. In winter, it’s home to a well-known skiing trail. When I visited the ruska hiking trail, it was as mesmerizing as the Urho Kekkonen National Park, where I went just prior to Luosto. After the coniferous forest, I reached a dense and magnificent forest of European spruce, white birch, aspen, and beech. The season was changing, the variety of colors of the leaves made my walk in the forest a marvelous experience. The ski and weather stations are at the peak. The higher I got, the less stable the weather was. On the way back, the wooden path became more difficult, but the red leaves were even more impressive. For me, the autumn scenery in the Pyha-Luosto National Park was no less magical than the Northern Lights. I walked for six hours in total, and three of them was in rain. But I didn’t feel like ending the journey. If this is autumn in Lapland, I don’t see why it is not more famous for visitors. In the end, I didn’t see any Northern Lights in Luosto. The next few days were gloomy and rainy. My two-week journey chasing the lights began in Trmoso, of Norway, took me to Saariselkä, of Finland, and then to the touristy Rovaniemi Santa village, which wasn’t located in the Arctic Circle and had severe light pollution. In the end, I was able to see the lights on only two evenings. I visited Pyha-Luosto again the morning of my departure. The day was sunny, and the bewildering light in the forest made me think I was in heaven. If I had stayed in Luosto that night, I probably would have seen the Northern lights. This reminded me of the day at Trmos when I had booked my trip, and the old Norwegian lady next to me said: “Oh, the Northern Lights are like men: you can’t get a hold of them.” There I thought the description was apt for women! I guess there are a lot of things we can’t get a hold of in the Arctic Circle.

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