A transitional object: a touch of both

A transitional piece of furniture that touches on both styles. Its form is traditional: for example, a Windsor chair with a curved back or a chest of drawers with classical proportions; but it is painted a single dark matte color, or fitted with contemporary thin metal legs and recessed handles. Thus, it belongs to both sides, becoming a bridge between traditional and contemporary furniture. There are one to two such pieces in the entire room. Avoid: making every piece of furniture purely traditional or purely contemporary, using deliberately distressed modified furniture, making the transitional piece into a clumsy collage, placing too many transitional pieces in the same space.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一件橫跨兩種語言的家具。它的形體是傳統的:例如一張有弧形椅背的溫莎椅或一張古典比例的斗櫃;但它被漆成單一的深色霧面漆、或換上當代的細金屬腳與嵌入式把手。因此它同時屬於兩邊,成為傳統家具與當代家具之間的橋。整個房間裡有一到兩件這樣的東西。避免:讓每一件家具都是純粹的傳統或純粹的當代、使用刻意做舊的改造家具、把過渡件做成不倫不類的拼貼、在同一空間放置太多過渡件。