Pushing boundaries with bamboo

After spending years in the West with reputable jewelry houses, a designer returns to his roots in more ways than one. Sun Yuanqing reports.

Sitting in a studio filled with teapots and bamboo furniture, Dayu Shi hasn't stepped out of the building, where he works and lives, for four days while on his new project.

As he sips tea and plays with a geometric wood carving, the award-winning designer who has just won another award, the German Design Award 2016, is not in a hurry to explain his work, either.