Designer's Home
From the words of the poet men take what meanings please them; yet their last meaning points to thee. —— Tagore <Gitanjali>
As a designer, the exhibition of space design shows the skills of cultural expression, spatial organization and artistic restructuring. Then the idea of building and decorating his own house, might be the most authentic analysis and revelation of designer’s inner self . In this pure space without any distractions and ideas of others, listening, feeling, talking, all of these are started from his heart, just between he and his room. As for Josh Wen, the founder of Fusion Design, home is a pure land where things can be able to comport themselves as they want. Therefore, tranquil and leisurely space comes into the city.
HOME, starts from hitting it off. “My wife Suki and I devoted a lot to design and decorate for our home. According to our habits and aesthetic concepts, three little rooms were made into two suites with bathrooms. We really enjoyed it because of the identical opinions and taste.”
The whole space makes the neutral shades as the key tone, enriching the home’s characters and styles through using different elements, such as the edges of sculptures, the type of lights, material quality of furniture, the contrast between colors and the expressions of artworks, etc. The living room keeps using the neutral shades which are gentle and soft. The hue is checkered with mild light and shadow, ornaments the inner space in company with a plain long table, floppy furniture, crude potteries, clear porcelains, everlasting plants and so on, to create a space which can be touched and filled with inclusiveness. Going back to the basic function of bedroom, we continue to use the neutral shades as a simple style, to make the body’s comfort as the design’s metric, to create a delicate and intimate experience by soft and leisurely furniture. Looking out from the dining area, we can see the other suite which is combined by two small rooms. There is a piano surrounded by a rattan screen that helps the bed behind it can create more private and safe feeling.
The particularity of a private home requests designer to consider the functionality, and to pay attention to the privacy of life. The secondary bathroom skillfully arranged two doors. One of them leads on to the balcony, and it will open when guests come. Meanwhile, the door leading on to the secondary bedroom will be closed, so this bathroom will become a convenient temporary public bathroom. Publicity and privacy will make transformation easily because of these two doors.
Art is the eye of space and shows the space more complete and full. Colors and shapes are intermediaries of emotions expressing. They connect to each other between spots, emanate their own moods and accomplish a dialogue between space and men. Art works will excite people’s feelings when we see them, and will have dignified the meanings through the reflections from people. In a manner of speaking, appropriate artistic decorations create an achievement of men, art, and space.
- Interiors: Fusion Design
- Photos: Ouyang Yun