Rooted in the legacy of the Forbidden City and brought to life by renowned international design studio Yabu Pushelberg,
MuLi·MuWai, a premium Chinese lifestyle brand, presents a masterpiece within a nearly 500-year-old siheyuan in Beijing—
a poetic living space where tradition is inherited, art is connected, and technology merges seamlessly with human connection.
This is MuLi·MuWai · The Forbidden City · Yuan Residence.

托馬斯·奧布萊恩出生於1961年，畢業於紐約庫珀聯合大學，在那裡他學習攝影、藝術和設計。在他獲得學位後，他在Details雜誌工作了一段時間，然後開始了他在Ralph Lauren的職業生涯。他曾在曼哈頓的麥迪遜大道上設計了Ralph Lauren旗艦店（包括造型和設計）。然後，他協助拉夫勞倫設計了在紐約德福德的私人鄉村住宅。

Born in 1961, Thomas O 'Brien graduated from Cooper Union University in New York, where he studied photography, art and design. After he earned his degree, he worked at Details magazine for a short time before starting his career at Ralph Lauren. He designed Ralph Lauren's flagship store (both styling and design) on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. He then helped design Ralph Lauren's private country home in Deford, New York.

在1992年，托馬斯·奧布萊恩與他的校友威廉·索菲爾德建立了他的設計公司Aero Studios和毗鄰的Aero商店。索菲爾德於1995年離開了Aero Studios後，奧布萊恩成為公司的唯一所有者。

ln 1992, Thomas O 'Brien established his design company Aviation Studio and the adjacent Aviation Shop with his alumnus William Sofield. When Sofield left the airline in 1995, O 'Brien became its sole owner.

透過Aero Studios，托馬斯·奧布萊恩設計了大量的閣樓和正式的公寓，傳統的莊園和現代的建築住宅。

Through Aero Studios, O'Brien has designed numerous lofts and formal apartments, traditional estates and modern architectural homes across the country.

「我尋找過去幾代人的經典元素，並在此基礎上進行設計。這是一種美國人的再造理念:傳統的現代生活方式。」

"I look for classic elements from past generations and edit them together for this one. It's an American idea of reinvention: traditional things for modern living.“

“對我來說現代不是簡樸；它只是更專注於形狀、線條、比例和色彩，揭示了材料本身的特性。”“What’s modern to me isn’t austerity; it’s just a sharper focus on shape and line, scale and coloration that reveals the character of the material itself.”

從私人住宅到商業房地產，從產品設計到品牌，再到美術諮詢，他的作品以其聚集的、復古的優雅而聞名，即使是對最實用的家居理念也很有共鳴。他對現代的感覺來自於將不同歷史淵源的元素組合在一起，這些元素組合起來似乎既熟悉又發人深省：20世紀和古典形式之間的共享的簡單性、純樸、雅緻、舒適和稀有的平衡。

"You experience a table lamp from so many angles, not just head-on," says designer Alexandra Champalimaud. "The best ones have character and punctuate or balance a space. They're a great way to bring color, materials, scale, and a subtle sense of architecture into a room.

「設計任何東西，從檯燈的細節到整個莊園的內部，對我來說仍然都是一樣的藝術項目。它始終是一個學習的過程:充滿樂趣，充滿希望，深思熟慮，還有一點虔誠。它是為了了解過去，為現在的時代發明新的東西。」

”Designing anything, from the details of a lamp to the interiors of a whole estate, is still an art project to me. It is always a learning process: fun, hopeful, considered, and a little bit reverent. It is to know the past in order to invent something new for the time of now.“

In the lounge, the Mito largo floor lamp defines intimate zones with light,
while the nearby Luna parete wall fixture echoes softly—
subtly dividing the tea space and dining area, while maintaining an invisible connection.