Furniture Design to Revisit a Classic Chinese House

Giving value to the tradition through the design. It ‘s the bets placed by the department store in Hong Kong Lane Crawford, who invited eight big names in furniture design to revisit a classic Chinese house, the chair-ming in wood, with a square base and arms-now familiar to all lovers of the Far East in the world. Among the many different solutions for the most formal-decorative-with which it is implemented revitalization. Tom Dixon points to a red transparent polycarbonate accessissimo and chooses the base of the seat. Michael Young, who in Hong Kong lives, draws on culture of the city and plays back with a mesh tube that draws the scales of a dragon skin. DB Kim, however, is limited to a precious effect the surface scattering of Swarovski, while Hayon is the only one who does not renounce to a mutation of types, turning in a rocking chair. Among the other designers of the collection, in the order of the gallery after the jump, including Lisa Whatmough (Squint), Ilse Crawford, Barnaba Fornasetti, Qu Guangco.