In 2016, China’s premier ceramic designer Chunmao Huang created banquet ware for Peng Liyuan, the First Lady of China. He designed her banquet ware for the G20 summit, which was held at a historically distinguished restaurant on the shore of Hangzhou, China’s famous West Lake. Turning her favorite color turquoise into a glaze, Chunmao Huang uses this color to inspire his invention of a spectacular ensemble of porcelain recalling the past glories of Chinese ceramic history. He introduces to the world a provocative and beautiful new assessment of the art of ceramic design.

Chunmao Huang writes: “For the First Lady’s banquet ware, I strove to develop the model in a soft, delicate, rich, and variable way. For the weight, hardness, motion, and priority of design, I work like a pianist composes music, making sure there is tone, melody, climax, and subtlety.”