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Lacquer Before Lacquer

Dates: 4–6 September 2026
Venue: Koppel Collective, 157 Regent's Park Rd, Chalk Farm, London NW1 8BB

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umum+ is a London and Hangzhou-based studio founded by curator Dan Huang and architect Shutong Fan in 2025 at their home in Kensal Green, London. We work across curation, spatial design, publication, object design, and situated research under one theme: Craft.

Craft is understood not as the preservation of tradition, but as a mindset for approaching the world. We attempt to reintroduce, recontextualise, regenerate, and readapt craft for a contemporary life context, bringing it to a wider audience who might not have been interested in craft before.

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We collaborate with a cross-disciplinary group of creatives: makers, artists, writers, graphic designers, architects, archaeologists, and filmmakers. Together, we translate overlooked materials, objects, and designs into curated encounters framed by displacement and recontextualisation. We approach design as a connective framework. Each project develops from attentive research into its cultural context, constructing a ground where stories surface and unfold through sustained dialogue.

umum+ grew from umum objects. The original idea was to adapt a private living space into a communal space for contemporary craft. Now, the practice has grown into an object gallery, umum objects, and a studio, umum+. The studio has been invited to host exhibitions and events in London, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Hunan.

Our collaborators include: Saltriver Studio, Arisu Ange, Slowdance, Gegend Gallery, Common Divisor, Zephyrus Art, and Storyage.

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Project

Exhibition

- Lacquer Before Lacquer
- Used to Use #2: Garden, Kitchen, Game
- 7-day Wonder II: Isobel Napier
- 7-day Wonder I: Marian Bijlenga
- Drifting Home
- Ready-to-Pot
- British Household Curios
- Used to Use #1: British Silverware Curios

Event

- Kitchen·Table·Dinning·
Ware
- Crafted Escapes
- The Art of Repetition
- umum x common divisor
- Reading Room #2
- Reading Room #1

Book

- “Ready-to-Pot” Book

Other

- How to see a vessel
- Zhàngwù: Youyou Wang

Library

Chen Bao: A Conversation with Clay and the Past

Contact

General Enquries
info@umumplus.com

While we're not currently hiring, we're always open to freelance collaborations.

We welcome portfolios from graphic designers, architects, product designers, sound artists, construction consultants, stage designers, filmmakers, and craft researchers, please share your work with us at hr@umumobjects.com

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