Ruiqi Dai

The first collection looks into people's everyday dining and drinking activities. Fountainia is a wine divider – when pouring wine from the top of the wine divider, the wine flows equally into six wine glasses. By creating this object, Ruiqi hopes to explore the dynamic experience of drinking through sharing and pouring. 

Through the manipulation of the texture and optic quality of glass, Light Escaper transfers the playfulness of a daily object through the interaction with the users. Mirage is a centrepiece on the table, which can serve fruits and desserts. Through the interplay of glass, wood, and metal, her research focusses on how different materials coexist, how each material serves a particular function within an object, how one material leads to, or supports another.

The Lighting collection, on the other hand, is the beginning of an investigation looking into the optic quality of glass and its application in lighting design. Ruiqi intends to achieve an elegant and simple aesthetic, while creating an intimate and unique experience through using the object.