The House of Living Craft

Between an old craft and a new generation.

Shanghai Curios began with a simple observation: the most beautiful objects in China were increasingly being made for nobody. Master embroiderers in their seventies had no apprentices; Jingdezhen kilns survived on export orders that erased the maker's name.

We built the opposite of a trading company. We work with 42 workshops under long-term partnership, pay above-market rates, and put the artisan's name on every object. In return, they make only their best work — the pieces they would once have presented to the imperial court.