15 . 02 . 2017 | News
Kohler partners with Design Shanghai 2017 to create a Top Professional Design Forum in Asia
Kohler, the world's leading Kitchen & Bathroom brand, will partner with Asia’s leading international design event - Design Shanghai, and home furnishing authority, AD China, to create a world-class professional design forum. The forum will be held from 8th to 11th of March, running throughout the exhibition which will bring together over 30 renowned designers, architects, curators and creators from the US, the UK, the Netherlands, Italy and China for nearly 30 wonderful speeches and interactions.
The theme of the Design Shanghai Forum in association with AD China and Kohler will be “Global Design, Global Craft, Global Manufacturing”. It will discuss the future of global design – where is design, craft and manufacturing heading to in the context of globalization? Will Chinese aesthetics impact the direction of global design? Is digital revolution overturning craftsmanship and making? All these and many more issues will be tackled in the forum.
More than 30 of the world's most influential designers will convene at the forum, including one of the “most creative contemporary designers” - Karim Rashid; American furniture design leader, avant-garde designer, Dakota Jackson; the famous British designer Benjamin Hubert; Founder of DESIGN and well-known Chinese designer, Jamy Yang.
Karim Rashid will be present at the design forum
It is particularly worth mentioning that Kohler has specially invited three hotel design masters: Founder of AFSO Design Studio - André Fu, Hong Kong talent designer and Founder of Joyce Wang Studio - Joyce Wang, and Former Vice President of Wanda Hotel Design Institute - D.B. Kim. They will jointly present a special forum themed “Exquisite Experience: Hotel Design for True Wellbeing”, to explore what the pathways are in hotel design that can bring true wellbeing to guests amid today’s pursuit of luxury.
Founder of AFSO Design Studio, André Fu
Hong Kong talent designer and Founder of Joyce Wang Studio, Joyce Wang
Former Vice President of Wanda Hotel Design Institute, D.B. Kim
Mr. Larry Yuen, Group President-Kitchen & Bath Kohler Co., said, “Our full support of this design forum shows our commitment to Kohler’s legacy of focusing on product design and our pioneer role in blazing the trail of kitchen & bathroom design.” In fact, Kohler has a long tradition of supporting communication platforms for high-end design. Since 2014, Kohler has successfully held nine “Bold Design Best Design” Asia Pacific Design Forums in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Dubai, inviting nearly 30 celebrated designers from the US, the UK, the Middle East, Singapore, Hong Kong, Mainland China and other Asia-Pacific regions to speak. The topics covered “Luxury Hotel”, “Design City”, “Green and Sustainability”, “Intelligent Buildings & Interior Design” and many other propositions in areas of design.
Now, this top design forum in Asia created by Kohler, Design Shanghai and AD China will provide the audience with a sparkling design banquet, and will also be a dazzling collision of ideas in the Asian design community.