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Westlake Music Hall 1929

Funny Thought of the Week…

By Jenn | August 5, 2013

We just received a book from China! It’s a large, 400 page hardcover illustrated book with captions in Chinese and English about the Westlake Expo of 1929 recently published. (Thank you to our friend Tongrun!)

Westlake Music Hall 1929

Exciting News!

By Jenn | July 1, 2013

We have exciting news! This past week, our friend Jeff Cody returned from Paris where he picked up our first purchase of Liu’s work.  We find it fitting because about a year and a half ago we met Jeff at the Getty Institute, Los Angeles.

Educational Pavilion designed by Liu Jipiao for the Westlake Expo 1929

Westlake 1929 to Shanghai Expo 2010

By Jenn | February 7, 2013

One of the first indications to us that my grandfather played a part in Chinese Modern Architecture was when we first met Kenneth Klein, Head of the USC East Asian Library and Lillian Yang a bibliographer that works closely with him.

Liu learned the art of designing porcelain at a factory in jingdezhen.

Jingdezhen: Study of Porcelain Design

By Jenn | February 5, 2013

When Liu Jipiao was a young boy his family lived in Jingdezhen, Kangxi Province- the “Porcelain Capitol” of China.  According to my grandfather, he was fascinated by the process in which the famous porcelain pottery was produced.

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