Sharon Leece - China Modern
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Featuring over 200 stunning photographs, this Chinese design book captures the modern, yet nostalgic style of the Chinese home.
Twenty-first century China is a country on the move. As it hurtles into the future, a new revolution- that of a fast growing creative movement - is taking place. As the countrys enterprising designers draw on classical Chinese accents and blend these with modern dynamic ideas, the term Made in China becomes dramatically redefined to mean chic, refreshing, inspiring - and even astounding in the architectural arena, in particular inspiring new responses to modern living in China are emerging.
Author Sharon Leece together with photographer Chester Ong, explore thirty-six of the most innovative homes and interiors in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
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Acknowledgements
Thank you to Meg Maggio and Shaway Yeh in Beijing and to Choon in Shanghai for your help, enthusiasm and introductions. Thank you to all the architects, designers and homeowners who feature in this book: your imagination and originality are inspiring.
AB Concept Limited
G/F 32-33 Sau Wa Fong
Wanchai, Hong Kong
Tel: 852 2525 2428
Fax: 852 2854 1038
info@abconcept.corn.hk
www.abconcept.com.hk
Jason Caroline Design
6/F 31 Wyndham Street
Hong Kong
Tel: 852 9027 2332
Fax: 852 2893 4061
jas_car@hotmail.com
Alexander Stuart Designs
5/F 15B Wellington Street
Hong Kong
Tel: 852 2526 6155
Fax: 852 2548 9410
astuart@paclfic.net.hk
Douglas Young
GOD Ltd, 48 Hollywood Road,
Hong Kong
Tel: 852 2544 5615
Fax: 852 2543 9377
www.gcd.com.hk
The CourtYard Gallery
95 Donghuamen Dajie
Dongcheng District
Beijing 100006
Tel: 610 6526 8882
Fax: 86 10 6526 8880
info@CourtYard-Gallery.com
www.courtyard-gallery.com
China Art Archives & Warehouse,
PO Box 43
Beijing 100102
Tel: 86 10 8456 6152
Fax: 86 10 8456 5154
caaw@public.gb.com.cn
www.archivesandware-house.com
Redstone Industrie Co Ltd
18-20/F Tower B
SOHO New Town
88 Jianguo Road
Chaoyang District
Beijing 100022
Tel: 86 10 6567 3333
Fax: 86 10 6568 6268
www.commune.com.cn
The Pink Loft
6 Sanlitun South Street
Chaoyang District
Beijing 100028
Tel: 8610 6506 8811
Simply Life
1d 5 Xintiandi
123 Xing Ye Road
Shanghai 200021
Tel: 86 21 6387 5100
enquiry@simplylife-sh.ccm
www.simplylife-sh.com
The Glamour Room
7/F, 5 The Bund
Shanghai 200002
Tel: 86 21 6350 9988
Fax: 86 21 6322 0099
info@m-onthebund.com
www.m-onthebund.com
TMSK
2 Xintiandi North
181 Tai Cang Road
Shanghai 200021
Tel: 86 21 6326 2227
Fax: 86 21 6326 2237
www.tmsk.corn.cn
Fuchun Resort
Fuyang Section
Hangfu Yanjiang Road
Hangzhou, Zhejiang
China 311401
Tel: 86 571 6346 2999
Fax: 86 571 6346 1761
T8 Restaurant, Bar and Club
8 Xintiandi North
181 Tai Cang Road
Shanghai 200021
Tel: 86 21 6355 8999
Fax: 86 21 6311 4999
Xavier
Xintiandi North
181 Tai Cang Road
Shanghai 200021
Tel: 86 21 6328 7111
Fax: 86 21 6328 7333
Shanghai Trio
Unit 5, Bldg 1 Xintiandi
181 Tai Cang Road
Shanghai 200021
Tel/Fax: 86 21 6466 6884
Shanghai_trio@hotmail.com
Wood Zapata
Unit 302, Building 28
Xintiandi, 181 Tai Cang Road,
Shanghai 200021
Tel: 86 21 6336 5183
Fax: 86 21 6336 5182
info@wood-zapata.com
www.wood-zapata.com
Kenneth Grant Jenkins JK arQ,
14/F Times Square Office Tower
93 Huai Hai Central Road
Shanghai 200021
Tel: 86 21 6391 0281
Fax: 86 21 5351 1589
ken-mego@online.sh.cn
The Hong Merchant
3, Lane 372
Xing Guo Road
Shanghai 200052
Tel: 86 21 6283 2696
Fax: 86 21 6283 9721
jpweber@uninet.com.cn
Simon Lee
Persimmon Home Store Ltd
Flat 3F, Ho Lee
Commercial Building
38-44 D'Aguilar Street Central
Hong Kong
Tel: 852 2573 5626
Fax: 852 2573 6382
homedesigri@persimmon-home.com
www.persimmonhome.com
Jooi Design
Room 201-203
International Artists Factory
Lane 210 #3, Taikang Road
Shanghai 200025
Tel: 86 21 6473 6193
Fax: 86 21 3406 0010
trine@jooi.com
www.jooi.com
Tiramisu
Room 418
International Artists Factory
Lane 210 #3, Taikang Road
Shanghai 200025
Tel: 86 21 6472 6963
kim@tiramisush.ar.ghai.com
www.tiramisushanghai.com
Postkard
Room 210
International Artists Factory
Lane 210 # 3, Taikang Road
Shanghai 200025
Tel: 86 21 6473 8092
Fax: 86 21 6445 9909
askus@nailmanchina.com
www.postkard.com
Handcrafted glass tiles on the bar in TMSK restaurant, Shanghai.
Beijing Avant Garde As China races into the future, the capital city of Beijing is fast becoming a hotbed of creativity. In everything from architecture to art, fashion to film, a revolution in style is producing a modern aesthetic that is both and creative.
More Ming minimalist than Oriental opulent, designers are proving that "Made in China" is no longer synonymous with cheap, mass production. Simplicity and experimentalism are the order of the day, especially In the fields of architecture and design, where quality work is defined by balance, clarity, and restraint.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in the fields of architecture and design. And whilst Innovative residential structuresfrom Bauhaus-inspired homes in the countryside to modernist villas by the Great Wall of Chinamay be based on the most international of ideas, the roots have not been forgotten. The age-old Chinese desire to commune with the natural environmentwhether in terms of bringing the outdoors inside, creating harmony with nature, or in the local materials used for constructionremains a major source of inspiration, no matter how revolutionary the design.
The Furniture House
An experimental house
made of bamboo
The Commune by the Great Wall is a development of 11 modern villas, designed by top Asian architects, located next to the Great Wall of China near Beijing. Among these is The Furniture House, by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, a serene, one-storey villa that comprises a main central courtyard and rooms arranged around it in a simple square format.
Ban has a reputation for using technology and materials in innovative ways. For The Furniture House, he devised a bamboo veneer lumber to create prefabricated furniture to be used as the main structural component as well as the exterior and interior walls. "This is the first time bamboo has been used as a structural element," says Antonio Ochoa-Piccardo, Chief Architect at the site.
During his research, Ban discovered that bamboo plywood, with its woven patterns on the outer layer, felt as strong as the structural veneer plywood used in Japan. He explained, "I thought, if it was possible to laminate strips of bamboo into plywood, then it would of course be possible to construct LVL (laminated veneer lumber) out of bamboo. Moreover, all exterior and interior finishes on the walls as well as the flooring could be done in bamboo to ensure consistency of materials throughout the project."
The extensive use of bamboo, coupled with the villa's glass-walled central courtyard and white marble floors, yields an elegant spatial organization that is both technologically innovative and aesthetically pleasing. It is a design with an aura of quiet confidence.
An airy terrace open to the elements leads off from the main reception area. It is furnished with a simple daybed with a woven rattan seat. Traditionally daybeds had various uses: as a sitting platform during the day and as a bed at night.
Shigeru Ban's courtyard house works to dissolve the boundaries between inside and out. The materials used-bamboo, glass, white marble-look elegantly understated when viewed from the entranceway looking into the minimal square courtyard.
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