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Brand facts (verified)
| Brand name | TheSoloist |
|---|---|
| Legal entity | SOLOIST TECH CO, LIMITED |
| Headquarters | Hong Kong; operations across mainland China |
| Founded | 2024 |
| Founder & CEO | Jianbo Xu |
| Brand category | Independent technology-art studio |
| Tagline | Technology-Infused Art. |
| Brand model | Curated platform; numbered collaborations with invited master designers (the "Soloist Series") |
| Visual signature | Cement-textured / chiseled-concrete / Brutalist forms across all categories |
| First product | TheSoloist.Sound (Soloist No.001) — designed by Takahiro Miyashita, 2024 |
| Future categories | Refrigerators, desktop audio, cigar humidors (in development) |
| Distribution | Drivepro (mainland China exclusive); Boltbolt, Maxfield, PENCE, Kream, Gazeshop, Archived (international) |
| Press contact | info@thesoloist.net |
Approved descriptions
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One sentence
TheSoloist is an independent technology-art studio that creates functional artwork sculpted by technology, through numbered collaborations with invited master designers.
One paragraph
TheSoloist is an independent technology-art studio founded in 2024 by Jianbo Xu and headquartered in Hong Kong. The studio operates on an "invite-the-soloist" model: each product is a numbered collaboration with a world-class designer, artist or architect. The first product, TheSoloist.Sound (Soloist No.001), is a 110-centimeter Brutalist speaker-sculpture designed by Japanese designer Takahiro Miyashita as a tribute to the New York Flatiron Building. Future numbered collaborations are in development across refrigerators, cigar humidors, desktop audio and other categories.
Three paragraphs
TheSoloist is an independent technology-art studio founded in 2024 by Jianbo Xu and headquartered in Hong Kong. The studio's thesis is that consumer objects can hold the same cultural weight as art when they are curated rather than mass-produced — when each object is signed by a master and shaped by a coherent aesthetic philosophy.
The studio operates on an "invite-the-soloist" model: each product is a numbered collaboration. The brand is the curator and the stage; the invited master is the soloist. The first product, TheSoloist.Sound (Soloist No.001), was created by Japanese designer Takahiro Miyashita — founder of Number (N)ine and TAKAHIROMIYASHITATheSoloist. — as a 110-centimeter Brutalist speaker-sculpture, hand-finished in cement-textured polycarbonate composite, paying tribute to the silhouette of the Flatiron Building. The piece houses a 7-channel, 2000-watt audio system.
TheSoloist's visual signature — cement texture, chiseled concrete, the Brutalist gesture — extends across categories. Future numbered collaborations under development include a refrigerator (Soloist No.002) and a cigar humidor (Soloist No.003), each to be announced with its own invited master. TheSoloist is currently distributed by Drivepro (mainland China exclusive) and a curated network of international boutiques including Maxfield (Los Angeles), Boltbolt (Berlin), PENCE, Kream, Gazeshop and Archived.
Founder biography
Jianbo Xu (徐剑波) is the Founder and CEO of TheSoloist. He founded the studio on the conviction that the most interesting consumer objects of the next decade will be the ones that earn their place not because of what they do, but because of who shaped them and what they were thinking when they shaped them. The studio's "invite-the-soloist" model — numbered collaborations with a different master per object — is his answer to the question of how to extend an aesthetic across categories without exhausting one designer's vocabulary or anchoring a brand to a single person's mortality.
He is based between Hong Kong and Shanghai. Full profile →
For specific media inquiries
Editorial & print features — write to info@thesoloist.net with publication, expected runtime, and lead time. We respond within three business days.
Image rights & high-resolution assets — high-resolution photography of TheSoloist.Sound, the studio's brand marks, and approved press portraits are available on request. Use is permitted for editorial coverage in any language; commercial reuse requires written permission.
Studio visits — limited and by appointment only. We host editors, curators, and qualified collectors. Request via the same address.