Jewelry · Interiors · Fashion
May Huang
A doctor turned designer, May brings a doctor's eye for detail to beauty. Across twenty years in the industry she has designed jewelry, shaped interiors and advised clients as a fashion consultant.
沈丘黃氏Shenqiu, HenanToronto
Huang Studio
A century-old merchant name, reborn as a house of design.
- 珠寶Jewelry
- 室內Interiors
- 時尚Fashion
- 藝術Art
一姓氏The name
A name carried for 2,600 years.
黃 (huáng) means yellow: the colour of the loess earth of China's Central Plains, of ripe grain, and of gold.
As a surname it traces to the ancient State of Huang, in today's Huangchuan County, Henan. When the kingdom of Chu annexed it in 648 BC, its people kept the name of their lost state as their own. Henan is where the name began, and where this family's story is set.
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二家世Heritage
Shenqiu's great merchant house.
A hundred years ago, the Huang family were merchants in Shenqiu, a county on the Ying River in eastern Henan. By family account they held more than half of the county's land, and ran its department store: Shenqiu's Saks Fifth Avenue, and in its world, bigger still.
The Ying flows east into the Huai, and in those years its towns lived by river trade. A merchant house lives on its name: what it sells, it stands behind. Huang Studio carries that name forward, a century on and an ocean away, by the same rule.
- 地
- PlaceShenqiu County 沈丘縣, Henan
- 河
- RiverThe Ying 潁河, flowing to the Huai
- 時
- WhenAbout a century ago
- 業
- HoldingsMore than half of the county's land
- 店
- TradeThe town's great department store
- 今
- TodayHuang Studio, Toronto
三設計師The designers
Two designers, one house.
AI portrait
Artist · Illustrator
Xintong Zuo Kally
An OCAD University illustration graduate (BDes, 2024) and emerging Toronto artist, Xintong blends traditional painting with digital technique to explore how people, places and memory hold onto each other. She exhibits at the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, earned a Merit in the 3x3 International Illustration Show No. 22, and illustrated Parts Work: An Illustrated Guide to Your Inner Life. Her River series, made with her father, paints his memories of their hometown river.
四工藝The studio
Four crafts under one name.
Every commission starts with the person it's for: their story, their home, their family's history. We bring Chinese heritage and contemporary design to the same table.
Jewelry
Bespoke pieces, heirloom redesigns and narrative jewelry in jade, gold and pearl, designed around the person who will wear them.
May Huang · Xintong Zuo
Interiors
Homes that hold two cultures, Chinese heritage and modern Toronto living, from a single room to a whole house.
May Huang
Fashion
Wardrobe consulting and styling for every day, for occasions, and for the moments that call for silk.
May Huang
Art
Commissioned paintings, murals, illustration and installation, from children's stories to whole walls.
Xintong Zuo
問
ListenWe meet, hear your story and look at the space or the piece.
圖
DesignSketches, materials and a clear quote before anything is made.
作
MakeCrafted, sourced and fitted with care.
成
KeepA finished piece, made to be handed down.
五聯絡Contact
Begin with a conversation.
Tell us what you have in mind: a ring reset from a grandmother's jade, a room that feels like home, an outfit for a day you'll remember, or a wall that needs a story.
- Studio
- Toronto, Ontario
- @zuoxintong_kally