The placement of negative space: carpet and sky

A room that leaves empty spaces within dense decoration. Only two areas in the entire space are plain: the thick, white-based wool rug in the center, and the square of sky visible when looking up in the courtyard. These two plain surfaces allow all the surrounding geometry to breathe. Furniture surfaces are also kept as plain as possible, reserving all patterns for the architectural surfaces. Avoid: making the rug also a full-patterned design, adding grilles and canopies above the courtyard, adding carvings and inlays to furniture surfaces, or having no plain surfaces visible in the entire image.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個在密集裝飾裡留出空的房間。整個空間只有兩處是素的:中央那張厚實的白底羊毛地毯,以及中庭抬頭看到的那一方天空。這兩塊素面讓周圍所有的幾何有地方可以喘。家具的表面也盡量素,把圖案全部留給建築的表面。避免:連地毯也做成滿版的圖案、把中庭上方加裝格柵與遮棚、在家具的表面加上雕花與鑲嵌、讓整個畫面找不到一塊素面。