In the lobby, textile artist Lin Fanglu plays with traditional tie-dying techniques of the Bai craftswomen of China’s southwestern Yunan province with the installation She’s Bestowed Love. In this piece, which is curated by Dr Xiaoxin Li, the V&A’s Asia department curator, as part of The Peninsula’s new partnership with the London museum, a maze-like form is created with blocks of knotted textile in hues of deep red. “Red is used to symbolise energy and emotion, the circle of life, and love, and the rising forms of the installation resemble the Greek goddess Gaia, the mother who nurtures all existence,” says Fanglu.