<link href="../Styles/China_Home.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/x-oeb1-css"/> <style type="text/css" xml:space="preserve"> /*<![CDATA[*/ .pb {page-break-before: always} /*]]>*/ </style> <meta content="urn:uuid:18787ab8-9694-4b7e-8dc6-b10a1bb9b2aa" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <div class="side-margin"> <h1 id="heading_id_2" title="FURNISHINGS AND DETAILS"/> <p class="head1"><span class="textStyle41">FURNISHINGS AND <b>DETAILS</b></span></p> <p class="indentedpara3"><span class="textStyle246">We finish this chapter with a medley of ideas</span> <span class="textStyle53">that draw on Chinese culture and tradition. The images along the top row are all in some way adaptations, from an antique dragon roundel in glass re-purposed as a door slider, to a chest based on the tradition of a marriage box designed as a drinks cabinet. Designer Yu Yongzhong takes Ming chairs as the inspiration for miniature stands, exaggerating and elongating them, while artist Shao Fan deconstructs a traditional Ming ladder and turns it into a work of art, acknowledging at the same time that original antique versions are now more usually displayed without function. Other details enhance decor with their cultural and philosophical associations. For instance, the</span> <span class="textStyle54">ru yi</span> <span class="textStyle53">has been a symbol of abundance and wealth from the time it was carried by powerful Imperial Chinese officials. With contemporary design, the pattern of</span> <span class="textStyle54">ru yi</span> <span class="textStyle53">has been re-engaged in a variety of objects and with different materials. Likewise the paired fish commonly appearing on lock plates of cabinet doors are propitious symbols; in Chinese philosophy, they signify that good things should come in pairs.</span></p> <p class="center1"><img alt="" src="../Images/128a.jpg"/></p> <p class="center1"><img alt="" src="../Images/128b.jpg"/></p> <p class="center1"><img alt="" src="../Images/128c.jpg"/></p> <p class="indentedpara2"><span class="textStyle34">One of Shao Fan’s furniture-inspired artworks, ‘Ming Ladder’, 2006, in chicken wing wood, in which the rungs separate as they rise, turning into profiles of a raised flange table. Small display stands in the form of miniature high chairs, with a miniature vase, designed by Yu Yongzhong. A drinks cabinet with mirrored lid designed in the form of an old chinese trunk by Harrison Liu.</span></p> <p class="center1"><img alt="" src="../Images/128d.jpg"/></p> <p class="indentedpara2"><span class="textStyle34">Chinese cabinet metal door pulls in the shape of fish.</span></p> <p class="center1"><img alt="" src="../Images/129a.jpg"/></p> <p class="indentedpara2"><span class="textStyle34">An antique blue and green glass dragon plaque used as the grip on a sliding glass door.</span></p> <p class="center1"><img alt="" src="../Images/128e.jpg"/></p> <p class="center1"><img alt="" src="../Images/129b.jpg"/></p> <p class="center1"><img alt="" src="../Images/129c.jpg"/></p> <p class="center1"><img alt="" src="../Images/129d.jpg"/></p> <p class="center1"><img alt="" src="../Images/129e.jpg"/></p> <p class="indentedpara2"><span class="textStyle34">The ornate headboard of a bed from Pearl Lam galleries. A detail of a glass and stone table featuring the ‘cracked-ice’ design and a dragon by shanghai artist sun Liang, at Pearl Lam galleries. Bamboo bowls in the kitchen of the Laetitia charachon lane house. Knife holders in the form of boxes packed with long slivers of wood. Marble and jade underplates</span> (<span class="textStyle57">yupan</span>)<span class="textStyle34">.</span></p> </div> </body> </html>