Khing vase: Forest
Khing vase: Forest
Sumphat
A few pikul blossoms appear among the branches - the same small white flower found along temple paths - but here they are outnumbered by leaves. Slender brass stems push through the composition like plants emerging from a grass field, reaching at irregular angles, more thicket than bouquet. Where the other arrangements in the Khing series centre the blossom, the Forest version lets it appear where it will and gives the rest of the space to the branch.
Rush Pleansuk draws again on the Bunga Mas, the golden tribute tree that once passed between Southeast Asian kingdoms as a symbol of prosperity and diplomatic respect. That object was formal, symmetrical, designed to impress. This one is neither. A vessel, built to hold whatever you bring from outside.
The brass will age with handling. What you place here will not last. The branches will remain.
Cast in brass. Exclusive to Australia at The Leopard.
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Height approximately 40cm
Diameter approximately 50cm
About Sumphat
Rush Pleansuk trained as an architect in Thailand and France before turning to a different kind of construction. What he builds now is not buildings but continuity - the chain of knowledge between a tradition and its next practitioner, between a forgotten technique and a contemporary object that gives it reason to survive.
Through Sumphat, Pleansuk works with more than thirteen artisan communities across Thailand, translating endangered craft practices into objects for modern life. The method begins with research — into local narratives, material intelligence, ways of making that have not yet found their contemporary form. Then, collaboration. The result is not replication but renewal: something that carries history without being trapped by it.
Alongside him, French photographer Philippe Moisan - trained in ancient arts at the École du Louvre - brings a historian's eye to the work. His images translate the same sensibility: heritage as a living thing, not a relic.
Sumphat's work has been presented through Dior, Audemars Piguet, and Aman. It is exclusive to Australia at The Leopard.
