Seoul Biennale Cup

This ceramic cup captures the spirit of the Heatherwick-directed Seoul Biennale 2025, featuring the festival’s distinctive ‘eye’ logo. Available in a set of two from the celebrated Korean ceramic brand Kwangjuyo.

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Design story

In 2025, Thomas Heatherwick was General Director of the 5th Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, the biggest public architecture festival in Asia. 
The Biennale explored how cities can be made radically more human. The centrepiece was the twisting 90m-long Humanise Wall filled with ideas from citizens, scientists and designers. 
The visual identity of the Biennale was a distinctive, inquisitive eye, urging people to look more closely at the places around them.
The Biennale’s eye logo has been playfully incorporated into the cup, which has been crafted by the ceramics company Kwangjuyo.
The right size for a soju or espresso shot, the vessel is available in a sociable set of two. In the words of Thomas Heatherwick, it reminds us “to keep looking at buildings and talking to each other about how they make us feel.”