China Style

Sharon Leece

ISBN 10: 962593457X / ISBN 13: 9789625934570

Published by Periplus, 2002

About this Item

First edition hardback, 2002, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only slight signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket rubbed to edges; boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears almost unread. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text and lavish illustrations bright and clear throughout. This book is both large (230mm x 310mm, 208pp) and heavy (1.5kg). Photographs available. Not an old library book.

Seller Inventory # 221258

Bibliographic Details

• Title: China Style
• Publisher: Periplus
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 962593457X
• ISBN 13: 9789625934570
• Binding: Hardback
• Illustrator: Michael Freeman (photography)
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art and Design
  • House and Garden

About this title

Synopsis

Featuring over 300 beautiful photographs and extensive commentary, China Style blends the chic designs of modern China with the traditional sensibilities of traditional Chinese art.

Chinese interior design is a kaleidoscope of competing influences: scholarly gardens versus opium dens, imperial palaces battling concrete-and-steel high-rises, rural simplicity fighting urban chaosChina Style gives an insiders' look at the interiors that draw from this vivid and powerful tradition, a tradition that is constantly being reinterpreted to produce a fresh and dynamic style of contemporary design.

A gorgeous idea book, China Style illustrates a practical and achievable way to incorporate traditional and contemporary Chinese interior design ideas into your own home decor.

The exquisite houses featured in this book demonstrate that Chinese design has truly gone global. Author Sharon Leece explores how contemporary interiors anywhere in the world today—whether in London, Paris, Shanghai, Beijing, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Singapore or Bangkok—can be given a dramatic flair with Chinese furniture and design.

Chapters include:

• China Style Goes Global
• Ming and Qing Elegance Redefined
• Chinoiserie Old and New
• The New Shanghai Style
• China Modern
• Decorating China Style

The featured interiors range from formal metropolitan apartments featuring priceless Ming antiques, to trendy Shanghai art deco homes from the 1930s and Maoist-inspired chic from the 1950s and 60s, to the unique overseas Chinese shophouses of Southeast Asia and the cutting-edge Chinese art minimalism of contemporary Beijing and Hong Kong.

About the Author

Sharon Leece, a writer based in Hong Kong, was editor-in-chief of Elle Decoration (Hong Kong). She currently writes interiors and design features for a variety of magazines, as well as a weekly design column for the South China Morning Post