THE YUNXI creates considered home objects for contemporary life. Shaped by an East Asian perspective, our work brings natural materials, specialist handwork, and everyday use into a close relationship.

Objects made not only to be seen, but to be held, returned to, and lived with over time.

Woman holding a Bamboo over Porcelain cup beside a winter window

ATTENTION

Quiet is not an aesthetic. It is a quality of attention

We believe a more considered life is shaped not only by exceptional moments, but by how we meet ordinary ones.

Modern life asks us to move quickly and notice less. The objects we use each day can offer a different rhythm—not by demanding attention, but by rewarding it.

Our role is to bring attention back to the hand—through materials that remain distinct, forms shaped with restraint, visible evidence of making, and objects designed for repeated use.

A balanced form, a tactile surface, the meeting of two materials: small details can make familiar actions easier to notice. They do not ask us to create new rituals. They give greater presence to the ones already part of the day.

WHAT GUIDES US

Three principles

  • Materials with presence

    We choose materials not only for how they look, but for what they bring to daily use: weight, texture, warmth, and the way they change over time.

    Their natural character—and the evidence of skilled hands—are allowed to remain part of the object.

  • Restraint with purpose

    Quiet form is not the absence of design. It is the removal of what does not serve the object, allowing proportion, material, function, and space to carry the experience.

  • Made to be lived with

    We design for repeated use, not a single impression. The value of an object can grow as it becomes part of a room, a ritual, and the life lived around it.
Bamboo over Porcelain Daily Cup form and woven coverage design study

OUR APPROACH

Designed for use, shaped through collaboration

Every object begins with how it should live: how it will be held, where it will be used, how its materials will meet, and what kind of presence it will bring to a space.

THE YUNXI sets the intended use, proportions, material relationship, and overall design direction. We then work with specialist makers whose knowledge of materials and techniques helps refine how each object is realized.

The finished object is considered as a whole—across form, material, making, and everyday function.

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THE YUNXI Daily Cup in Baked and Natural, featuring woven bamboo sleeves over white porcelain.

THE FIRST EXPRESSION

Bamboo over Porcelain

Porcelain provides the functional form and smooth drinking surface. Bamboo is woven around it by hand, changing how the cup is held and felt. Their relationship is not decorative contrast alone; it brings material knowledge, specialist making, and daily use into one object.

Designed for coffee and tea, the Daily Cup brings this material relationship into a familiar part of the day.

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THE YUNXI

Meaning grows through use.

Meaning does not need to arrive all at once. Some objects become important slowly—through the places they occupy, the daily moments they accompany, and the traces of use they carry.

Bamboo over Porcelain is where our story begins, not where it ends. Future objects may take shape through different materials, makers, and domestic uses, but the intention remains the same:

Considered enough to notice.
Useful enough to return to.
Quiet enough to remain.