Description
This book focuses on tea-ware design exchanges between China and the UK since the middle of 17th Century, and explores how design encouraged trade and how the market demand influenced the development of design. The spirit of Chinese tea came to Britain alone with tea itself, and enriched the design of tea-ware, as well as British tea culture. During this process, tea-related oriental aesthetics evolved into an aesthetic image mechanism and developed as aesthetic concept, which infiltrated from private space to social space.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter: 2 the Westward Transmission of Chinese Tea Culture Driven by Business Interest.- Chapter 3" Extravagance and Flaunt:the Consumption and Localization of English Tea.- Chapter 4: Moving Towards Mass Consumption.- Chapter 5: Challenge and Integration: China' s Response to Western Market.- Chapter 6: Imitation and Innovation:The Rise of Tea-Related Industries in Britain.- Chapter 7: Hybridization and Blending:Transition from Scene Construction to Spatial Aesthetics.- Conclusion.
