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Every time you lift the cup, a practice in letting go of weight

Dancing with the Wind describes the movement of wind through a gently tilted cup body and flowing lines. When the fingers close around the handle and the cup is lifted along its angle, it is as though the weight of the day lifts with it — a moment of release, ease, and lightness. From the pace of the city to the stillness of an afternoon cup of tea: Dancing with the Wind is an invitation to return to ease.

Coffee/Tea set pieces included 單杯盤單壺一壺兩杯盤

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Contemporary White Porcelain Craft · Fired at 1300°C

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Designed by Taiwanese artist Heinrich Wang

Designed by contemporary white porcelain artist Heinrich Wang, each piece embodies Eastern philosophy and contemporary form.

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Transforming life philosophy into functional art, conveying a Zen-inspired modern aesthetic.

Transparent-glazed pure white porcelain | Hand crafted

Crafted with a transparent glaze technique, revealing the pure beauty of porcelain’s natural white after firing.

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Only human hands can convey their warmth — every NewChi Porcelain piece is handmade, embracing the challenges of fine porcelain craftsmanship.

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Why Dancing with the Wind | Why This Set

The form of freedom · the wind given visible shape

Dancing with the Wind does not depict the shape of the wind — it expresses, through the tilted cup body and flowing lines, the quality of freedom and release that wind brings.

Lift the cup, and enter the wind

A cup that sets down weight. When the cup tilts forward at its angle, the visual and physical sensation is one of weightlessness — drinking tea becomes a moment of letting the body and mind release.

A design response to the pace of contemporary life

Heinrich Wang translated the tension and busyness of urban life into a design proposal about release and ease — so that drinking tea is not only drinking tea.

White porcelain and the play of light

The clean white porcelain vocabulary lets the vessel form itself become the subject. No superfluous decoration: the wind's rhythm emerges naturally. The pure white porcelain makes the color of the tea more vivid, and lets the flowing lines express the rhythm of the wind in shifting light.

Usage Scenarios

A moment of stillness in a busy life
Heinrich Wang writes: "Dancing with the Wind — through the time and space of tea, slipping naturally into the ease of open sky." When the city's pace quickens the heartbeat, lifting the tilted cup, the hand adjusts naturally along the angle, the body steps slightly away from its habits, and the mind is carried toward the place where kites fly — the feeling of clear sky in every direction, happening in the time it takes to drink one cup of tea.
Tea with someone worth the time
"Let every sip release the spirit like the wind — sweet, free, boundless, unstoppable." Dancing with the Wind on the table gives the whole occasion a sense of motion and poetry. Two people seated across from each other, within the imagery of the wind, find the conversation lightens too.
In the study or tea room — a sculpture in motion
At rest on the table, the tilted silhouette of the pot and cup is a white porcelain sculpture full of dynamic energy — the posture of the wind, held still in that single tilted moment, forever.

Design Detail · Making the Invisible Visible

The design logic of Dancing with the Wind is giving the formless wind a visible posture — the whole set tilts in the same direction, as though a gust of wind has come from the side and carried the pot and cup with it: "the pot and cup feel as though they are about to be blown away by the wind."

The flowing lines of the pot body trace the path of wind moving through space; the relief texture moves like cloud in motion; light and shadow pass across the convex and concave surfaces, giving the pure white porcelain the energy of the wind in movement. The cloud cutout handle speaks the same design language — cloud is the visual trace of wind's passing. To hold the handle is to hold the moment the wind passed through cloud.

The cutout lid is the most technically demanding element: the lid must maintain consistency with the tilting angle and overall form of the pot body, while still fitting the pot mouth with precision after 1300°C firing and 15% shrinkage. Two tilted arcs, both contracting, still meeting cleanly — every finished piece is the result of precise calculation at every stage between the craftsman and the kiln.

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Design Concept

Dancing with the Wind is Heinrich Wang's most complete statement about wind as a vessel form — a white porcelain piece in which the tilted form describes the rhythm of the wind, and the visual tension of weightlessness and flowing lines allows the person who lifts the cup to feel ease and release.

Wind symbolizes freedom, openness, and boundless travel — and the desire to step briefly away from the constraints of reality.

Wang describes the origin of Dancing with the Wind in I Drink, Therefore I Am: "Dancing with the Wind is a tilted cup. It is the shadow of the wind. Wind carries the imagery of free, open, boundless travel — this relaxed and easy posture displays the pleasure of wind blowing and dancing. In choosing this theme, I wanted to drink with the wind and taste the vast, light ease of open space — to release the weight of the city's density and compression, to let the tea move in and refresh, to let the whole body fully release. The lightness of having nothing to carry — in this moment, the feeling of ten thousand miles of clear sky."

The design's core is a bodily invitation: "With the fitting angle, dance with the wind into the elegance of weightlessness" — lifting the cup, following the tilt of the body naturally into the wind, releasing the grip of gravity, floating free, dancing gracefully with the tea.

Heinrich Wang designed Dancing with the Wind during the same period as Wind Trace — a cup and saucer that captures the silent trace the wind leaves behind through three-point support and a cloud cutout handle. Dancing with the Wind is the wind in motion; Wind Trace is the memory the wind leaves in form. Two pieces, one question: what does the wind look like?

"Ranging widely with the wind, freely moving through the rich complexity of the human world… casting off the fate of gravity, rising to begin the soaring freedom of open sky. Let every sip release the spirit like the wind — sweet, free, boundless, unstoppable."

Excerpted from Heinrich Wang, I Drink, Therefore I Am.

Occasions or Usage

Personal use: Those who want the daily act of drinking tea or coffee to carry the quality of release — stepping briefly away from the urban pace

Gifting: A close friend who appreciates contemporary Eastern design and philosophy; promotion, birthday, any occasion that carries the wish of moving forward with the wind

Collecting: The tilted form and cutout craft of Dancing with the Wind are unique in white porcelain vessel design — paired with Wind Trace, the two form the complete Wind series in the NewChi Porcelain range

Ideal For

Admirers of contemporary Eastern design
Tea lovers who appreciate culture, craftsmanship, and everyday beauty
Those seeking a distinctive coffee cup and saucer set with artistic character
Individuals who value rituals and moments of pause in daily life
Gift seekers celebrating a new home, career milestone, or birthday

Dimension

Cup: L15.2 × W9.2 × H6.6 cm
Saucer: L17.4 × W10.1 × H1.2 cm
Teapot: L28.2 × W10.7 × H16.1 cm

Softly moving, leisurely drifting —

carrying the boundless feeling of spring

and the urgent, ardent soliloquy of the wind.
— Heinrich Wang

About the Artist | Heinrich Wang

Heinrich Wang, founder of NewChi Porcelain and Tittot, is one of Taiwan’s most representative contemporary artists in white porcelain and liuli glass. Renowned for infusing philosophy and poetry into object design, his works have been exhibited at the National Museum of History in Taiwan, the Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute, and the Triennale di Milano, earning recognition from collectors worldwide. Every porcelain piece is personally overseen by Wang, offering an aesthetic choice that unites artistry, cultural depth, and practical function.

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FAQs

Why is the cup tilted?

The tilt is the design's central statement. Heinrich Wang writes: "Dancing with the Wind is a tilted cup. It is the shadow of the wind." Wind has no visible form — only the movement of cloud tells you it is there. The tilted pot and cup give the wind a posture: "the pot and cup feel as though they are about to be blown away by the wind." The angle is also a bodily invitation: when the cup is lifted, the hand adjusts naturally along the tilt, the body steps slightly away from its habitual posture, and "with the fitting angle, one dances with the wind into the elegance of weightlessness."

What is the difference between Dancing with the Wind and Wind Trace?

Dancing with the Wind and Wind Trace are sister pieces created by Heinrich Wang in the same period, both with wind as their theme — but their design languages are entirely different. Dancing with the Wind captures the wind in motion: the whole set tilts as though caught mid-gust. Wind Trace captures what the wind leaves behind: three-point support that barely touches the saucer, a cloud cutout handle that holds the form of the wind's passage. Placed together on a tea table, one dynamic and one still, they form the most complete white porcelain answer to the question: what does the wind look like?

Is Dancing with the Wind a good gift?

Dancing with the Wind carries the meaning of ease, release, and moving forward into open space — making it a natural gift for a new home, a promotion, a graduation, or any new chapter in life. It ships in a gift box.

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