Difference from New Chinese Style: One Focuses on Vocabulary, the Other on Hierarchy

An Eastern luxury interior, not New Chinese style. New Chinese style uses Ming-style furniture, screens, curio shelves, and traditional patterns to explain its origin; this design hardly uses these forms. The space features contemporary designed furniture, with only a hint of Eastern low and square outlines; instead, the emphasis is on material quality: solid stone countertops, silk-blend textiles, lacquered surfaces, and antique bronze hardware. The Eastern sensibility comes from proportion, negative space, and color palette, not specific forms. Avoid: using Ming-style forms such as horseshoe-back armchairs, altar tables, and curio shelves, adding screen doors and moon gates, using carved traditional patterns and lattice work, making furniture in an antique imitation style.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個東方奢華而非新中式的室內。新中式會用明式家具、隔扇、博古架與傳統紋樣來說明它的來歷;這裡幾乎不用這些形制。空間裡是當代設計的家具,只有輪廓上帶著一點東方的低與方;取而代之的是材料的等級:整塊石材的檯面、絲混紡的織品、大漆的表面、古銅的五金。東方感來自比例、留白與色調,不是形制。避免:使用圈椅、條案與博古架等明式形制、加入隔扇門與落地罩、使用傳統紋樣的雕花與櫺條、把家具做成仿古樣式。