Chen Yingze, manager of NANZUOKI brand, was born in August 1990 in Zhangzhou, Fujian, and graduated from Nanjing University of the Arts in 2013, majoring in jewelry design and metal crafts. He now lives in Jingdezhen and is engaged in design and artistic creation.

NANZUOKI Metal Art Studio was co-founded by Chen Yingze and Cao Hao in Nanjing on November 1, 2013, and has been in Jingdezhen since 2015. "NAN" is the aesthetic appreciation and fate of Chinese characters; "ZUO" is the instinct and creativity of craftsmen; "KI" is the perfect presentation of products. Drawing artistic and cultural accomplishments from tradition, it observes the people, events, objects and scenery around it, combining with personal aesthetics, and then is made after thinking. With several hammers to do some experiments on texture innovation and techniques, we summed up the techniques of "The Method of Hammering the Texture like Painting Brushwork", "The Method of Hammering the Texture with Large and Small Hammers Alternately", "The Method of Hammering Through and Welding the Hole from Inside" and so on. Repeated percussion echoes, exchanges the advancement of craftsmanship with time, and the confluence of ideas and craftsmanship gradually forms the current style. NANZUOKI, persistently pursues art language for handcrafts creation, regardless of any established principles of anywhere or anytime, with the ultimate aim of creating something meaningful out of metals.

year：2018

material：Sterling Silver

size：L 15cm * W 13cm * H 18.3cm

After visiting the special exhibition of Mucha's works in Nanjing Museum in 2018, he, a representative painter of the "Art Nouveau", has absorbed the line drawing characteristics of Japanese Ukiyo-e and Byzantine elements and the decorative techniques of planarization style, and his dreamy and soft curves have great visual effects. Influenced by his use of lines, it combines the traditional aesthetics of "leakage and transparency" of oriental exotic stones with it, thus presenting a layered and tortuous three-dimensional decorative texture. The method of hammering through and welding the hole from inside was inspired by this work.