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Comming Oct 18, 2007 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Guggenheim/SOA Lecturer:
 Ms. Kai-Yin Lo
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"Kai-Yin Lo’s creative design has earned her international acclaim. She is recognized as a pioneer for bringing a contemporary and easy-to-wear style to traditional Chinese jewelry and for elevating semi-precious stones into a mainstay in jewelry design. According to Suzy Menkes, the influential fashion editor of the International Herald Tribune, Lo bridged the divide between precious and fashion jewelry.

In the mid 1980’s, Lo’s innovative designs spurred the creation of a bridge jewelry department to sell her semi-precious jewelry at Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue, leading department stores in the USA, and later at Harrods in London. She was the first Asian jeweler to operate a stand alone corner for ten years at New York’s leading store, Bergdorf Goodman, Kai-Yin Lo designs have been sold.

Now, Lo’s semi-precious and precious jewelry is marketed via niche exhibitions and at prestigious outlets such as Wako in Japan.

Lo was honoured alongside Cartier as one of three jewelers lauded for their” influence, style and excellence” by the Kennedy Center, Washington DC, in a groundbreaking exhibition, “ The New China Chic”(Oct. 1-16, 2005) showcasing the world’s best fashion and jewelry labels interpreting China style.

Lo studied history at Cambridge and London Universities and attended Harvard Business School. A well-regarded expert on several fields of Chinese art and culture, she has edited four books ranging from Chinese furniture to the vernacular house and living environment.
An advocate and consultant on issues relating to the interaction between culture, heritage, design and business, Lo lectures frequently on the subject at international forums. Since 1992, she has also organized and curated numerous important international art, cultural, and lifestyle exhibitions and symposia at the British Museum, China Institute, New York; Singapore National Museum, the Shanghai Grand Theatre and in Hong Kong."
Text from: JVK Las Vegas Show Invitation (p.11) Accessed October 14, 2007

Resources about Kay-Yin Lo
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Asia Store: Kai-Yin Lo

Books edited by Kai-Yin Lo

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NA 7448 .L58 1999

Journal Citations:

Law-Yone, Wendy. “A living heritage: an exhibition and book celebrate the vernacular houses of China.” Architectural  Digest vol. 58, no. 11(2001) : 134, 138, 140, 142, 144.

Ho, Mui. "Living heritage: vernacular environment in China [by] Kai-Yin Lo ... [et al.]." Traditional dwellings and settlements review: Journal of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments vol. 11, no. 2(2001) : pp. 61-62.

The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum’s Young Collectors Council, in conjunction with the UNLV School of Architecture Presents a Lecture by Kai-Yin Lo.

(LAS VEGAS, NV – September 10, 2007) On Thursday, October 18, 2007, the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum’s Young Collectors Council, in association with the UNLV School of Architecture, will co-sponsor a lecture by Ms. Kai-Yin Lo entitled,
“House, Home, Family—the Chinese Way of Living and Being, Then and Now.”

As a collector of Chinese furniture and a socio-cultural historian, Kai-Yin Lo began to question why the principal rooms in a Chinese house were arranged in a prescribed pattern. Research led to an understanding of the philosophy, ethical norm, cultural background, and social and economic organization of the Chinese house, which were bound by Confucian tenets and a belief in an ancient cosmic order. How much of this way of living that has contributed to the formation of Chinese culture and identity remains in the China of today? What are some of the changes evident in lifestyle in present day rural and urban China? 

Kai-Yin Lo is internationally acclaimed as a jewelry designer of originality and style. She is acknowledged to be a pioneer for bringing a contemporary and easy-to-wear touch to traditional Chinese jewelry and for elevating semi-precious stones into a mainstay in jewelry design. According to Suzy Menkes, the influential fashion editor of the International Herald Tribune, Kai-Yin bridged the divide between precious and fashion jewelry, and introduced the range to a wider audience.
 
Described by The Wall Street Journal as a “Renaissance Woman,” Kai-Yin is a recognized expert and consultant on aspects of Asian arts and culture and a sought-after speaker on Chinese history, heritage, and broad issues of design and the creative industries. She has edited four books ranging from Chinese white ceramics to furniture to architecture and vernacular living environment. Her latest, “House, Home, Family: Living and Being Chinese,” has been adopted by over 20 universities in the USA in their Asian Studies course text.
 
Kai-Yin was honored alongside Cartier as one of three jewelers lauded for their “influence, style, and excellence” by the Kennedy Center, Washington DC, in a groundbreaking exhibition, “The New China Chic” (Oct. 2005) showcasing the best fashion and jewelry labels in the world.

A student of history at Cambridge and London Universities, Kai-Yin also attended Harvard Business School. She is a Visiting Professor at the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing. The annual Kai-Yin Lo Lecture at Asia Society, New York,” Asian Arts and Culture—a New Vision” enlists the participation of distinguished speakers. Since 1992, she has organized and curated numerous important international art, cultural, and lifestyle exhibitions and symposia at the British Museum, China Institute, New York, Singapore National Museum, the Shanghai Grand Theatre, and in Hong Kong. She is the curator of the Hong Kong Heritage Museum’s exhibition on jewelry design to open in May 2008.

The lecture will take place at the UNLV School of Architecture in the Architectural Studies Library in the Paul Sogg School of Architecture Building on Thursday, October 18th beginning at 7 p.m. The lecture is open to the public and is free. Space is limited, however.

The UNLV School of Architecture is located on the southeast corner of the campus at the intersection of Maryland Parkway and Tropicana Avenue. The building is accessed by making the turn onto Brussels Road from Tropicana Avenue. Parking is available on the north and south side of the building.

The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum’s Young Collectors Council is a donor group of young professionals 25-45 whose monthly programming includes tours of local private and corporate collections, visits to a variety of local cultural institutions, private artist studio tours and panel discussions about art and culture.

A partnership between the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, and The State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg, Russia, the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum has presented a variety of exhibitions since its opening at The Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino in October of 2001. From Impressionism to Modernism, the Renaissance to Pop Art, this Rem Koolhaas–designed facility has been host to numerous masterworks in an extraordinary gallery space constructed of Cor-Ten steel.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT:

Elizabeth Herridge
Managing Director
Guggenheim Hermitage Museum
Telephone: (702) 414-2212
Telefax: (702) 414-2442
E-mail: eherridge@guggenheim.org