[Jang-i] Mother-of-Pearl Seoul City Series – Large Vacuum Insulated Mug (700ml)

A city that holds a thousand years in its skyline, carried now in hand.

Seoul moves like no other city — Joseon palace gates stand beside glass towers, and the Han River threads between them without apology. Jang-i's Seoul City Series captures that particular compression of history: Gwanghwamun (광화문), Namsan Tower, and the fireworks that light the night above both — all rendered in hand-inlaid Najeonchilgi (나전칠기) lacquerwork across the surface of a double-wall vacuum-insulated mug. New Zealand Abalone shell provides the deep Pacific blue of the city's night sky; Golden Pearl shell gives the lit windows their warm glow. The fireworks are the artisan's signature — bright, precise, and unrepeatable.

At 700ml, this holds a full morning without compromise, or an afternoon without interruption. It is equally composed on a Melbourne kitchen bench or in a Gangnam office, carrying the same quiet authority in either context. As a gift for someone who has lived between cultures — who carries Seoul with them wherever they go — it arrives as an object that already knows something about that distance. Seoul contains multitudes: Joseon craftsmanship and modern thermal engineering, abalone from the Pacific, a city built from centuries of accumulation. So does this mug.

Handcrafted in South Korea by Jang-i — inlaid by artisan hands who have made this work their life's practice.