Fireplace Redone: Only the Shape Remains

A redesigned contemporary French fireplace. It retains its original position and proportions: pilasters on both sides, a thick horizontal mantelpiece above. But the materials and details are new: a single piece of beige or off-white marble, honed not polished, with simple right-angle edges and minimal rounding, no carvings or moldings. The firebox opening is a clean rectangle. Only two or three objects are on the mantelpiece. Avoid: using classical fireplaces with carvings and figures, adding gold decorations and mirror frames, using electronic simulated flames, cluttering the mantelpiece with photo frames and ornaments.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一座重新設計的當代法式壁爐。它保留原有的位置與比例:兩側的柱腳、上方一片厚實的水平檯面。但材料與細節是新的:一整塊米色或灰白的大理石,表面珩磨不拋光,邊緣是簡單的直角與極小的圓角,沒有任何雕刻與線腳。爐膛的開口是一個乾淨的矩形。檯面上只有兩三件物件。避免:使用有雕花與人像的古典壁爐、加入金色的裝飾與鏡框、使用電子仿真火焰、在檯面上擺滿相框與擺飾。