在這之前,琳並不去特別注意瓷器,只知道家裡用的康寧餐具很耐,以及百貨公司的瓷器專櫃很高『貴』。
演講中,王先生分析創立『八方心氣』所遭遇到的困難,包括品牌、通路、產品、團隊,相較於外國百年品牌,每一項都像是銅牆鐵壁,擋在前方。
本著『與其最好,不如唯一』的精神,王先生突破重重障礙,創作出一件件富有中華文化、生活情趣的日常用品。看著投影片上令人賞心悅目的瓷器,才發現,原來瓷器可以與人互動,生活可以這麼豐富,它就藏在每日微不足道的細節當中,這就是大師之所以為大師的心思啊!
可能是談論到仿品的問題吧!王先生提到一句『只有外象,沒有內涵』,這八個字,讓琳很認真的把它寫下來,並細細琢磨、省思。
最後,王先生採用Robert Frost的詩句,為演講作個總論:
『I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.』
今年四月,『八方新氣』會進駐新竹SOGO,到時候,就算買不起,也一定要去參觀。
Road Not Taken
一條未走的路
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
黃葉林中有路雙岔,
可惜我不能兩條都走,
我這位旅者,佇立良久,
極目遠望,
有條彎路沒入草叢。
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
而我選擇他路,同樣秀麗,
或許它更加值得,
因為路上雜草叢生,正待君來踩踏;
即便此地往來行旅,
已把雙徑蹂躪得難分上下。
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
而當日早晨,同樣落葉覆蓋的兩條路,
未遭足跡污染踐踏。
啊,我留下第一條改天再走!
卻覺路走過一條接一條,
遲疑是否該走回頭。
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
他日他地,歲歲年年之後,
這段往事我將邊嘆息邊說:
林中有路雙岔;而我——
選了乏人行走的一條,
從此一切都大不相同。