I name this home KeepallBox
Shoes, toys, paintings, furniture and bags
I put all the good things in the box
Totally there’re around over a thousand items, big or small
I’m a post-80
I’m a collector of art toys
For nearly 20 years
The house is not far from the West Lake
And it’s next to China Academy of Art which is full of artistic atmosphere
4 years ago, I redecorated the house
According to my own ideas
With the purpose to house those new collectibles
There’s a ‘door god’ by KAWS at the entrance
Its name is Four ft. Companion
I put it there to exorcise evil spirits
The furniture I chose
Are generally classical pieces in the history of design
I hope that all the items in the house
Will never be out of fashion
The dining table and chairs are Jean Prouve replicas by Vitra
The most classic series
The FLOS Taraxacum pendent light is designed in 1988
The painting looks like a photo
It’s the original work
Of American female artist Marilyn Minter
I moved in 4 years ago
But I’ve never used the kitchen
The items which look like food are all collectibles
Like that packet of chips is actually a shopping bag
The big wine bottle is an ice bucket
Designed by Marc Newson for Dom Perignon
Those Mastermind plates
Each of them was given with a set meal
In a pop-up store
The TV backdrop wall in the living room is decorated with Campbell’s Soup Cans
The most classic work of Andy Warhol
The 1:1 Astro Boy by ATS
Is my generation’s childhood companion
I put it in the most noticeable place in the living room
I spend about 10 years collecting the art toys on the wall
KAWS and Bearbrick toys
1, 2, 3, 4...
If it’s 50 here, then there’re around 100 pieces in total
That is one of the UNDER HEAVEN series by Xu Zhen
It’s commonly known as cream flowers
There were only 50 wool carpets of the limited series
When you step on it, you feel like stepping on gold
The red sofa is the 189th
Designed by Vitra
It allows 4 people to sit in at the same time
There’re around over 200 shoes in the room
The Jeremy Scott limited edition wing sneakers
Air Jordan series
Original-generation sneakers
Are placed in the order of release time
Mainly Nike Dunk and Air Force
Which are all reminiscent of the old times
On the bed I put several Takashi Murakami sunflower toys
And around the bathtub I place a lot of Ron English SpongeBob toys
I had girlfriend while I was studying in Australia
She told me that lots of boys were collecting a small bear
In various colors and with different patterns
I was still a student back to then
So I could only afford the inexpensive ones
Bearbrick blind boxes
My first expensive art toy
Is a KAWS wooden bear in 2005
Which costed me nearly a month’s salary
Now its value has increased tenfold
50-70 thousand yuan
Eventually I find that items that are more expensive tend to achieve higher appreciation
Just like houses
The most valuable one
Should be the ‘Born to Bend’ bronze sculpture
It has been taken by an auction house
I used to work in a bank
Then I started my own business in foreign trade
And I made a fortune
But I didn’t like the work
So gradually I turned to interior design
And I set up my own clothing brand
Many collectibles
Are comparatively big
And not so childish
I move them to my company
I spend about 80%-90% of my earning in collection
There’re a lot of pieces
I will never sell for my whole life
You can’t find a second one in the world
Through collecting in the past years
I’ve made so many like-minded friends
People of my father’s generation
Mainly collect stamps, coins
Stones and porcelain items
As they grow old
And the post-80, post-90 and post-00 rise
Art toys will gradually become the mainstream