National Gallery of China | Ruimao Copper Art Inheritance of Intangible Cultural Heritage Traditional art and traditional craftsmanship symbiosis

The National Museum of Chinese Literature is a national repository of edition resources and a gene pool of Chinese cultural seeds with the orientation of ‘continuing the Chinese cultural lineage, firming up cultural self-confidence, displaying the image of a great nation, and promoting the dialogue of civilisations’. The project combines traditional culture with modern aesthetics, and achieves not only the high level of art, but also the deep touch of technological precision.

Craftsman catty ink, the line must be intentional, from 11,000 square metres of copper panels, 18 Copper Doors to gable panels, canopies and window panels.

In three springs and autumns, a thousand times day and night, Ruimao copper art from hand to heart, to set up the road with skills; with the shape of the object, with feelings into the heart, to achieve the binding of technology and memory.

Ancient copper door with elegant colour and lustre
As the saying goes: ‘A door is auspicious, ten thousand miles and wind’, the portal ‘to copper as the beginning’, with its simple and elegant system of colour and lustre, highlighting the cultural texture of the accumulation of time and space penetration of the pale ancient momentum.

The whole copper door design is based on the Chinese National Archives to record history and witness civilisation, highlighting the far-reaching meaning of ‘hiding books and treasures’, carrying an ancient style and charm, light and elegant, simple and refined, with an elegant and calm, dignified and solemn Chinese style, to achieve the perfect combination of the local design and the overall architectural symbolic imagery.

Forged metal burin

The copper veneer relief shapes are hand forged and burined, with a concave-convex pattern, matching the aesthetic design and reflecting the traditional cultural aesthetics.

The overall layout is full of atmosphere, the line must be intentional, the meaning must be auspicious, give full play to the unique charm of traditional metal forging and burin technology, the sense of volume, the sense of hierarchy, the sense of rhythm of the three senses of fusion; the design level, craftsmanship level, the perfect unity of the level of art, the shape of writing, the shape of God, the God is both.

Chinese Traditional Imagery Door Fan Symmetry
The design of the door fan pattern is inspired by the ancient Chinese bookshelf, Bo Gu Shelf, Duo Bao Ge, which implies hiding books and treasures, fully reflecting the purpose of the building!

The design of the damask is neat, well-proportioned and full, the overall orderly workmanship presents a simple symmetry, and the openwork embodies the wisdom of traditional Chinese imagery of ‘leaving white space’.

Brass Handle
The handle uses the imagery of a ‘giant brush’ and ‘a wonderful brush’ to describe a large handwriting that records important events.

Copper handles wide shape and open layout, gentle and thick to show just not fold, flowing and flowing pattern interpretation of the traditional auspicious patterns, fine lines show the blessing of the long, the overall calm and elegant and show the elegance of the times.

Bronze window panes with poetic patterns and paintings.
The classic shape of horizontal and vertical, the temperament is thick and introverted, and the colour is calm and dignified. When the sunlight is reflected, the light and shadow changes, and presents a poetic delicacy, a flow of light like intoxication.
Unique sense of atmosphere of Chinese window panes, oriental charm, simple but not ugly, following the qualities of the ancient meaning, note the new style of the times, is nostalgic but also innovative, every piece of pattern on the window is like the traces left by the years!。

Thick and steady, bearing the elegance of traditional architecture.

Thick and steady without losing the elegance, the Chinese solid benefits in the new meaning.

China's national version of the bronze door copper decorative atmosphere, in the modelling design and style shaping, and the overall architecture of the solid and heavy echo.

Ruimao Copper Art has always focused on architectural Copper Decoration, inheriting the traditional metal forging and burring techniques of non-legacy, sticking to the roots of traditional culture, developing contemporary copper art and cultural products through the combination of modern innovative design and traditional craftsmanship, so that the traditional craftsmanship can be re-entered into modern life.