Zhao Xinqi, A Jewelry Designer, Makes Jewelry In Museum Collections.

Cindy was born in Taiwan, and the works of architect's grandfather and sculptor father influenced her deeply and led her to the road of artistic creation.

Cindy likes butterflies, and likes its short but brilliant life, just like her outlook on life: "the human body will disappear by time, but art can be handed down from ancient times."

She is the first Chinese jewelry designer to go to Christie's in New York, and is the first jewellery designer to keep her jewelry works by the Smithson Nepal National History Museum.

In the 2004 year of the year, she founded CINDY CHAO The Art Jewel in her own name. She said that making jewelry is like building a house. She built the foundation in ten years.

Ten years of patient preparation, waiting for a real start.

In October 7th, at the Sotheby's jewellery and emerald auction in Hongkong, the "ballet butterfly" brooch, which was first designed by the independent jewellery designer Zhao Xinqi (Cindy Chao) and the American Jessica Chao (Sarah Jessica Parker), finally appeared. The auction price rose rapidly from 4 million Hong Kong dollars to the estimated amount in a matter of minutes, and finally dropped to HK 9 million 400 thousand (about RMB 7 million 360 thousand), becoming the most expensive butterfly in the CINDY CHAO The Art Jewel butterfly.

The proceeds from the auction will be donated to the New York ballet Education Fund.

The story of Miss Butterfly

Cindy was born.

The works of architect grandfather and sculptor father influenced her deeply and led her to the road of artistic creation.

Cindy likes butterflies, and likes its short but brilliant life, just like her outlook on life: "the human body will disappear by time, but art can be handed down from ancient times."

So we prove that we have existed with works.

From 2008, Zhao Xinqi will make an annual Butterfly Brooch every year to witness her growth and pformation this year.

This year, she worked with Sarah Jessica Parker, who started ballet at the age of 11, to design a ballet butterfly brooch. The front face of a brooch looks like a butterfly with wings spreading. On the back it is like a dancing ballet dancer, with a waist like waist hollowing design, three pink conch pearls, representing three children of Sara, and a gradually formed layer of color, a 26.27 carat pillow colored brown drill and three 47.71 brown coloured brows.

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The design of these subtle colors created a warm feeling, and even two Paris collectors, tears of excitement after seeing the butterfly, called it "a work full of love".

Such comments make Cindy feel gratified: "I hope my work is emotional."

In order to make the butterfly lighter in the real sense, she chose titanium as the overall framework material to lighten the weight of the brooch.

The first barrel of Christie's in New York

After graduating from University, Cindy came to New York alone, studying FIT (New York Institute of art and Design) and GIA (American gemstone Institute) course, becoming an early group of students learning jewelry design.

After graduation, she successfully entered an internship at the top jewelry company in the industry. However, the two month internship made her realize that this job was not what she wanted.

In 2007, Cindy returned to Taiwan and founded CINDY CHAO The Art Jewel under her mother's support.

The first three years of entrepreneurship were not smooth. From 2004 to 2007, what she had done was to design her own work and wait for opportunities.

In 2007, with her first art jewellery series Four Seasons four seasons series, Cindy walked into New York's Christie's every day when she studied.

The building shook the owner's office door of the auction house.

Looking at the 6 works brought by Cindy, the other side turned around and began to be silent.

A few minutes later, he decided to collaborate with the unknown new Chinese designer to name it at the auction.

Such bold adventure, its chip is the confidence of Cindy, he told Cindy: "I watch you."

Such cooperation (You will be somebody.) is the first time in the history of Christie's auction in New York.

Finally, the series of branches, necklaces, branches and bracelets were sold at a price of three times the auction price.

So far, Cindy has become the first Chinese jewelry designer to enter New York Christie's.

Collecting future monuments

In the Smithson Nye National History Museum in Washington, D.C., about one trillion and forty million art antiques and specimens are kept. In the eyes of Americans, it is next to the White House.

Such a place which makes people feel unattainable is another turning point of Cindy career.

In March 2009, the "Royal Butterfly Brooch" in Cindy Chao Black Label master series was forever treasured by this museum and became one of the largest collections of its gemstones and mineral collections.

The museum visits 7 million 500 thousand annually, which means that 7 million 500 thousand people from all over the world can see Cindy every year.

For this sudden good news, Cindy was surprised and pleased: "why would I collect such a living artist's work?" the curator said, "we now collect this work so that later people will know that human beings already have such works and works in twenty-first Century, and we are collecting future monuments."

The collection of the Smithson Nei National History Museum in the United States means that it has been recognized by the academic circles. Cindy's works are beginning to show itself at the major auctions and become the new favorites of the collectors.

In 2012, her rebirth butterfly was sold at the auction of Christie's in Geneva at a price of 5 times higher than the valuation.

At that time, the auctioneer was the auctioneer owner of Cindy's works in the 2007 year. The butterfly brooch finally dropped $1 million. He immediately emails Cindy: "I'm so proud of you. I knew you would have this day when I found you in 2007."

Recalling the experience, Cindy sighed, "there are many stories in life. In just a few years, through your work, let others experience your life and let others see your achievements."

Revolution in technology

Cindy's grandfather is a famous temple architect in Taiwan, and his father is a famous sculptor.

Cindy's interest in architecture was aroused by her artistic influence. She thought that every piece of jewelry should be like a miniature building.

The development of the 360 degree encircling technology is based on the concept of sculpture, so as to create the vitality and the three-dimensional sense of the work.

The difficulty is that it needs to be embedded on the metal surface with a thickness of only 0.5mm. It requires the accuracy of stacking mode to achieve multi-level mosaic, and does not affect each other.

This requires that the craftsman accurately calculate the depth of the gemstone and the symmetry of the cutting symmetry of the gem.

These have gone beyond traditional gem inserts and involve engineering structures, which is also the advantage and pride of Cindy.

"We did not compromise and change the design because of technical obstacles. We are like doing technological revolution. They believe what I saw. Maybe this process has not been seen before, but we have led to the new trend of mosaic technology. In the past three centuries, zhubao has been a white world. Now, on the international stage, Cindy seems to represent the brand of technology and technology."

In her creation, she still retained the carving and wax making technology of the traditional jewelry artisans in the Napoleon period. Each work has been processed through complex processes such as design, wax carving, structural organization, color matching, and drilling. The last drilling process is going to take thousands of hours.

In 2007, the Cindy Chao brand officially entered the Seven Star Shopping Mall Bergdorf Goodman in the United States, and the store executives said: "Cindy Chao's vitality in design creation, collocation of precious rare precious stones, and 360 dimensional stereoscopic engraver and mosaic are all world-class standards."

Cindy's works never amount to mass production. Her master series does not exceed 20 pieces a year, and White label label series does not produce more than one year.

Each of her works needs two to three years of customization.

"If I can score a perfect score, I will never ask for 60 points."

This is her principle of doing things.

When each work was finished, she began to examine and find a better place. Even in her hands, the works that were perfect and perfect were repeated several times in her hand.

"The highest record is 20 times. The work took six years and has not yet been completed."

The huge cost has upset the chief financial officer of the brand, and blamed her for being too strict.

"I think this is not strict but persistent.

Insist on doing the best you can imagine.

This is a persistent handcraftsman and a "bad" businessman.