Sharon Leece - China Style
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Featuring over 300 beautiful photographs and extensive commentary, China Style blends the chic designs of modern China with the traditional sensibilities of traditional Chinese art.
Chinese interior design is a kaleidoscope of competing influences: scholarly gardens versus opium dens, imperial palaces battling concrete-and-steel high-rises, rural simplicity fighting urban chaos China Style gives an insiders look at the interiors that draw from this vivid and powerful tradition, a tradition that is constantly being reinterpreted to produce a fresh and dynamic style of contemporary design.
A gorgeous idea book, China Style illustrates a practical and achievable way to incorporate traditional and contemporary Chinese interior design ideas into your own home decor.
The exquisite houses featured in this book demonstrate that Chinese design has truly gone global. Author Sharon Leece explores how contemporary interiors anywhere in the world todaywhether in London, Paris, Shanghai, Beijing, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Singapore or Bangkokcan be given a dramatic flair with Chinese furniture and design.
Chapters include:
- China Style Goes Global
- Ming and Qing Elegance Redefined
- Chinoiserie Old and New
- The New Shanghai Style
- China Modern
- Decorating China Style
The featured interiors range from formal metropolitan apartments featuring priceless Ming antiques, to trendy Shanghai art deco homes from the 1930s and Maoist-inspired chic from the 1950s and 60s, to the unique overseas Chinese shophouses of Southeast Asia and the cutting-edge Chinese art minimalism of contemporary Beijing and Hong Kong.
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Acknowledgements
AB Concept
G/F, 31 Wing Fung Street, Hong Kong.
Tel (852) 2526 7226; fax 2526 8969
info@obconcept.com.hk
Altfield Gallery
748-9 Prince's Building, Hong Kong.
Tel (852) 2537 6370; fax 2525 8751
www.altfield.com
Altfield Gallery
Unit 2-22, Chelsea Harbour Design
Centre, London SW10 OXE, UK.
Tel (020) 7351 5893; fax 7376 5667
Baba and Nyonya Heritage Museum
48 & 50, Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock
75200 Malacca, Malaysia.
Tel and fax (60 206) 283 1273
BAM-BOU Restaurant
1 Percy Street, London W1P OET, UK.
Tel (020) 7323 9130; fax 7323 9140
www.bam-bou.co.uk
Beagle Gallery
303 Westboune Grove,
London W11, UK.
Tel (020) 7229 9524; fax 7792 0333
Grace Wu Bruce
701 Universal Trade Centre
3 Arbuthnot Road, Hong Kong.
Tel (852) 2537 1288; fax 2537 02 13
also at:
1 2A Balfour Mews,
London W1Y 5RJ, UK.
Tel (020) 7499 3750; fax 7491 3896
John Chan Design
5/F, Worldwide Commercial Building,
34 Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.
Tel (852) 2521 0050; fax 2526 7425
China Art
G/F, 15 Hollywood Roo, Hong Kong.
Tel (852) 2542 0982; fax 2854 1709
www.chinaart.com.hk
The China Club
13/F, The Old Bank of China Building,
Bank Street, Hong Kong.
Tel (852) 252 1 8888; fax 2522 66 11
Chine Gallery
42A Hollywood Road, Hong Kong.
Tel (852) 2543 0023; fax 2850 47 40
www.chinegallery.com
Contrasts Gallery
Suite 2306-2309, Jardine House,
1 Connaught Place, Hong Kong.
Tel (852) 2826 9162; fax 2801 4457
Dialogue
501 Yu Yuet Lai Building,
43-55 Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.
Tel (852) 2521 4002; fax 2521 4141
dialogue@asiaonline.net
Fort Street Studio
Harbour Industrial Centre,
4th Fl, No. 16,
10 Lee Hing Street, Hong Kong.
Tel (852) 2889 5150; fax 2508 1457
fortss@glink.net.hk
also at:
David Gill
60 Fulham Rd, London SW3 6HH, UK.
Tel (020) 7589 5946
Joyce
jardins du Palais Royal,
9 Rue de Valois, 75001 Paris, France.
Tel (331) 4015 0372
Starck Carpet
979 Thi+d Avenue,
New York, NY 10022, USA.
Tel (212) 752 9000
Face Restaurant
#4 Building, 118 Ruijin Er Lu,
Ruij in Guest House,
Shanghai 200020, China.
Tel (86 21) 6466 4328;
fax 6415 8913
lanna@uninet.com.cn
Spencer Fung Architects
3 Pine Mews, London NW 10 3JA, UK.
Tel (020) 8960 9883; fax 89609889
mail@spencerfung.co.uk
Graham 32
32 Graham Street, Hong Kong.
Tel (852) 2815 5 188; fax 2815 5318
www.graham32.com
Nicholas Grindley
13 Old Burlington Street,
London W1X1 LA, UK.
Tel (020) 437 5449; fax 494 2446
The Hong Merchant
No. 3, Lane 372, Xing Guo Lu,
Shanghai 200052, China.
Tel (86 21) 6283 269 6;
fax 6283 9721 jpweber@uninet.com.cn
Kelly Happen Interiors
2 Munden Street, London W14, UK.
Tel (020) 7471 3350; fax 7471 3351
The Imix Club
Shop 4, G/F,
Chinachem Hollywood Centre,
1-1 3 Hollywood Road, Hong Kong.
Tel (852) 2559 0945; fax 2559 0156
www.theimixclub.com
Kenneth Grant Jenkins
JKarQ (China) Limited
5th Floor, Hong jing Business Center
1001 Hong jing Lu
Chang Ning District
Shanghai 201 1 03 China
Tel: 86 21 62690787 kenneth@jkarq.com
www.jkarq.com
Jonkers Restaurant
17 Jalan Hang Jebat, MalaccaMalaysia.
Tel and fax (60 206) 383 5578
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404, USA.
Tel (612) 870 3200
www.artsmia.org
Mint
70 Wigmore Street,
London W1H 2SF, UK.
Tel (020) 7224 4406; fax 7224 4407
Caroline Ma
3C, 345 Tai Hang Road, Hong Kong.
Tel (852) 9027 2332; fax 2893 4061
carma@netvigator.com
Nail Assemblage Int'l
409, Yu Yuet Lai Bldg,
43- 55 Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.
Tel (852) 2526 8326; fax 2234 9139
nail@netvigator.com
Nube
58 Tai Cang Lu,
Shanghai 200021, China.
Tel (86 21) 5383 8788; fax 53838988
nube@nubedesign.com
www.nubedesign.com
Paxton Locher Architects
10 St Georges Mews,
London NW1 8XE, UK.
Tel (020) 75866 161; fax 7586 7271
mail@paxtonlocherarchitects.com
Plum Blossoms
Shop 6, G/F Chinachem Hollywood
Center, 1 Hollywood Road,
Central, Hong Kong.
Tel (852) 2521 2189
The Red Cabinet
Shop 5, Chinachem Hollywood Centre,
1-1 3 Hollywood Road, Hong Kong.
Tel (852) 2536 0 123; fax 2536 02 12
www.red-cabinet.com
The Red River Company
Tung Fai Garden,
1 Po Yon Street, Hong Kong.
Tel (852) 2559 7799; fax 2559 7699
won@the-red-river-company.com
Simply Life
9 Dong Ping Road,
Shanghai 20003 1, China.
Tel (86 21) 3406 0509; fax 5456 0972
www.simplylife-sh.com
Alexander Stuart Designs
5/F, 15B Wellington St, Hong Kong.
Tel 2526 6155; fax 2548 94 10
alec@stuart.com.hk
Hotel Tugu
Jalan Pantai Batu Bolong,
Desa Canggu, Bali, Indonesia.
Tel (62 361) 731 701/3;
fax 731 704
bali@tuguhotels.com
Xin Ji Shi Restaurant
Xin Tian Di Plaza, No. 9 169 Long Tai
Cang Road, Shanghai, China.
Tel (86 21) 6336 47 46;
fax 633 6 8474
Young Associates/GOD Ltd
48 Hollywood Road, Hong Kong.
Tel (852) 2544 56 15; fax 2543 9337
info@god.com.hk
www.god.com.hk
Yin Expressions Ltd
702-703, 39 Wellington Street,
Hong Kong.
Tel (852) 2773 6009; fax 2773 6211
kaiyinlo@netvigator.com
Zee Stone Gallery
G/F, Yu Yuet Lai Building,
43-55 Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.
Tel (852) 2810 5895; fax 25 22 4750
www.zeestone.com
Thanks go to all the designers, shops and galleries listed here and also to all the people who kindly allowed us into their homes during the production of this book. In addition, extra thanks go to the following people for their support:
In Hong Kong: Douglas Young and Angy Heng of GOD; Kavita Daswani; Brad Davis and Janis Provisor of Fort Street Studio; Amanda Clark of Altfield.
In Shanghai: David and Won Pierce; Sam, Chris and Maya Torrins; Michelle Garnaut and Bruno Van Der Burg of Mon the Bund.
China Stye Goes Goba
Chinese style is most often associated with ornate carvings, complex patterns and a searing palette of rich reds and glitzy golds. But what is often overlooked is that there is a deep-rooted modernity inherent in Chinese design-on age-old classicism with a sense of balance, order and harmony that appeals to the most modern of minimalists.
With the current global preoccupation with Asian style-from food to interior design to philosophy-it was only a matter of time before attention come to rest on the Chinese aesthetic. Since the opening up of post-Cultural Revolution Chino in the late 1970s, the country has changed beyond measure. Today, 21st-century Chino is firmly focused on the race to become a major world player and, in architectural terms, much has been-and is being-destroyed. Traditional dwellings are being replaced with gleaming banks of skyscrapers, but within this cacophony of change, there is a growing bond of designers who prefer to look to their roots to find valid decorative directions for the future.
Such designers, many of whom have studied overseas, are blending on international outlook with a pride in their Chinese heritage to produce a new vocabulary of design. Tending to steer away from the ornate, opulent approach, they are basing their ideas on a new kind of Chinese-influenced modernism, which incorporates balanced lines, natural textures and muted colours.
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