Sense of scale: few pieces, but each is large

A space composed of a few large items. The entire room contains only five movable objects, but each one is oversized: a four-meter-long solid wood console table, a 1.2-meter-tall large unglazed ceramic jar, a three-meter-wide horizontal ink painting, a deep, low-slung sofa set, and a rug that fills the entire seating area. There are no small ornaments, no picture frames, no clutter, no decorative items. Because there are few items, each has enough space to be seen independently; because they are large, they support the proportions of the space. This is completely opposite to the approach of filling a space with small objects. Avoid: adding small ornaments and decorative items, increasing the number of objects, making objects smaller, arranging objects densely together.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個以少量大件物品構成的空間。全室只有五件可移動的東西,但每一件的尺度都超出一般:一張長四米的實木案桌、一件高一米二的粗陶大甕、一幅寬三米的橫幅水墨、一組進深很大的低矮沙發、一塊佔滿座位區的地毯。沒有小擺件、沒有相框、沒有雜物、沒有裝飾品。因為件數少,每一件都有足夠的空間被獨立看見;因為尺度大,它們撐得起空間的比例。這與擺滿小東西的做法完全相反。避免:加入小型的擺件與裝飾品、增加物件的數量、讓物件的尺度變小、把物件密集地排在一起。