Boundless Harmony by Chuan Jia & Artoria
Prestige Edition made of Limoges Porcelain
Somexing Artistic invited Chinese contemporary artist Chuan Jia to reinterpret Larsen Cognac’s iconic Drakkar bottle for its 70th anniversary. The project explores how a historical form can become a contemporary art canvas, bridging heritage, craftsmanship, and artistic expression.
In “Boundless Harmony”, Chuan Jia reimagines the Drakkar as a poetic landscape of clouds, sea life, and delicate gold details. Working between abstraction and figuration, he creates a visual harmony reflecting the bottle’s Nordic inspiration and his own artistic language.
This collaboration embodies Somexing Artistic’s curatorial vision: brand icons become artworks, and artistic gestures reveal new forms of cultural resonance.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Boundless Harmony
This prestige edition of 300 bottles was inspired by the subtle fusion of French Limoges porcelain craftsmanship and Chuan Jia’s expressive language. To bring this vision to life, the artist traveled to Limoges to explore the savoir-faire of Artoria Limoges. His composition unites sea and sky in a perpetual dialogue — abstract clouds plunging into waves, swimmers and sea creatures drifting through luminous gradients. Meanwhile delicate 24-carat gold traces glint like sunlight on water, each applied with meticulous precision on the porcelain surface. With the mediation and guidance of the Somexing Artistic team, this dialogue between artist and artisans transformed porcelain into a medium of artistic expression, where tradition meets imagination.
Through this shared process, “Boundless Harmony” became more than a design: it emerged as a work of contemporary porcelain art, shaped by collaboration, trust, and cultural exchange. This commission exemplifies Somexing Artistic’s dedication to curating encounters that unite artistic vision and material expertise, turning craftsmanship into a form of creative storytelling.
Technique
French Limoges porcelain, 24-carat gold, Limoges Enamel
Format
30 x 20 x 6 cm - 300 editions
Project
Creative process
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Chuan Jia
Chuan Jia, also known as Trajan Jia, is a Chinese digital illustrator. He has developed a highly personal multicultural art style. It is infused with Chinese traditional painting as well as Western and Eastern literature and culture. Growing up in a Chinese factory compound environment, the contrast between vast architectural structures and small, exquisite personal living spaces became a key inspiration for his art. Chuan’s work combines techniques such as silkscreen printing and hand drawing, thoughtfully recording the details of changing times and urban communities. It is aligned with cultural and creative brand collaborations.
He graduated from China Academy of Art BA course in 2011 and soon going to UAL’s Chelsea college of art and design to continue his MA course. His art creating start from his MA proposal subject about the collective memory of the Chinese urban community, and he did a series of illustration and picture book design based on this study.
To be separate from usually single and real-life narrative way, his work shows randomly and magic traces of people’s fates under the breaking down by the architecture framework. The whole society just like a quantum, it has a functional and stable structure for macroeconomics; while it also has an unpredictable people’s relationship by the microscopic view.
