Kevin

Kevin spent seven years around the art world — first at a Shanghai gallery, then producing private views for collectors — before turning his rolodex into journeys. His address book is the journey: ceramicists in Jingdezhen who will let you throw a cup, a Suzhou silk atelier that weaves for the museums, architects who open their models and their studios.

He plans China the way its new museums are built — old material, contemporary hand. A morning at the Longmen grottoes, an afternoon with a young ink painter; imperial kilns before lunch, a design hotel tour after. Guests leave understanding not two Chinas, but one continuous craft.

"Every museum piece in this country was once someone's commission. My journeys put you back at the moment of commissioning — you meet the living hands, and the past stops being a glass case."