The new product launch event of Muli Lacquer Art

October 23rd

Explore the aesthetics of traditional Chinese lacquer together with artist Long

 When Chinese haute couture meets intangible cultural heritage, a grand feast of life that combines ancient wisdom with modern aesthetics is unveiled. On October 23, 2025, the new product launch event of Muli Lacquer Art was held at Muli · Forbidden City · Yuan Di in Beijing. Under the witness of designers, artists and media friends, the lacquer art works jointly created by Muli and artist Teacher Long Yi were astonishingly released.

A grand feast of intangible cultural heritage lacquerware for mutual appreciation

A dialogue on luxurious lifestyles spanning a thousand years

Lian Feng, the founder and chairman of Muli Muwai

Lian Feng, the founder and chairman of Muli, delivered the opening speech, sharing with the close friends present the original intention of Muli in paying tribute to intangible cultural heritage and cooperating with Teacher Long Yi. Let's witness together the opening speech of Lian Feng, the founder and chairman of Muli

Artist No matter WULEN ART, Art Director Long Yi

As a visiting scholar at the China National Academy of Painting and a specially invited artist of the Paris Design Week China Week, Teacher Long Yi has combined the intangible cultural heritage of lacquer craftsmanship with national trends, fashion and art. Together with Muli, he has created works such as lacquer tea tables, lacquer dining tables and lacquer tea sets, giving new life to lacquer and endowing modern home furnishings with profound cultural connotations and artistic charm.

Zhu Tong, a contemporary art curator and director of the Beijing Art Center

At the press conference, Mr. Zhu Tong, an international contemporary art curator, was also present and shared with everyone the artistic exploration significance brought by the combination of wood inside and outside and lacquer. As an art curator, Teacher Zhu Tong presented a solo exhibition of Teacher Long Yi's lacquer art work "Folded Landscape" at the Muli · Forbidden City · Yuandi Art Gallery Space, inviting the friends present to experience the artistic charm of lacquer together.

A large lacquered tea table with wood inside and out

The new lacquer products interpret a new artistic conception of traditional luxury

"A hundred miles, a thousand knives, a jin of lacquer." Lacquer is a treasure of traditional culture and also a gift from nature. In terms of craftsmanship, the process of making lacquerware is extremely complicated. From making the base, applying lacquer to sanding and air-drying, it often takes over a hundred days to complete. This collaboration with artist Long Yi is a testament to Muli's inheritance and promotion of traditional craftsmanship. Through patience in communicating with time, the new products carry the weight and spirituality of Eastern civilization and possess quality that can stand the test of time.

Artistic aesthetics, exquisite details

The aesthetic trend of art and the refined aesthetics of life

Through delicate texture patterns

Let the lacquer be like a flowing cultural melody

Shuttling between the ancient and the modern

It endows the tea room life scene with more phenomenal power

It also endows tradition with new life

Dialogue on Cultural Roots and Ritual Systems

Ritual vessels show respect to heaven, and ritual systems show respect to the monarch

Etiquette shows respect to teachers and to others

Lacquerware serves as a carrier of "preserving rituals through vessels";

The changes in its form, patterns and functions

It echoes the evolution of the core of ritual systems in different eras

Luxurious and stylish lacquer tea table

Lacquer can be wise, profound and inheriting

It can also be everyday, fashionable or artistic

The spirit of Eastern culture represented by lacquer

It can be perfectly integrated with modern aesthetics

Warm each table and each utensil with lacquer

Build a wonderful relationship through gathering

A dialogue of civilizations spanning eight thousand years, lacquer craftsmanship, as a traditional art form, has its own development and evolution process. Every innovation in lacquer art is a dance between artisans and The Times. With integrity towards users, sincerity towards works, patience towards quality and reverence for traditional culture, this collaboration between Muli and artist Teacher Long Yi represents an innovation in the modernization and artistry of lacquer craftsmanship. From the portrayal of the noble life symbolizing luxury and charm in ancient times to the integration of the soul of lacquer into modern home life, the wood inside and out awakens traditional intangible cultural heritage and leads into the high-quality luxurious life of the contemporary era.