Chen Xu and Gabriele Goretti · CLIENT: Nanjing liangzhu management company
Art Farm is a guest house in Nanjing, China, created from a former farmhouse. The building covers about 1200 square meters. The first floor holds a reception area, a multifunctional room, a dining room and a guest room. Six guest rooms are placed on the second floor, and one large guest room with a bathtub is on the third floor. Brass details and abstract geometric shapes are combined with local Jiangnan elements. The walls are dark blue, and the furniture and sofas are red and orange. The interior aims to give guests an immersive experience of art.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- The Artfarm guest house is located in Nanjing Sujia creative town, Its unique natural environment has turned this area into a popular place for downtown people outing in the weekend. Many house owners in the town have reconstracted their farmhouses into unique accommodations for guests to provide the residential services. In this poject, the owner of guesthouse wants to bring guests an artistic experience while to stay in this guesthouse.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The construction area is about 1200 square meters, on the first floor includes a reception area, a multifunctional room, a dinning room and a guest room, on the second floor there are 6 guest rooms, on the third floor, there is one big guest room with bathtub.
- Tags
- nature, panoramic view, culture blending, brass, immersive experience
- Production Technology
- The main feature of the interior design is all guest rooms are decorated with brass on the wall and angles and the elements can be found on the customized furniture,which give the gusetroom a unique atmosphere and a correlation between each rooms, the main pating material on the internal wall is resina.
- Design Challenge
- The design celebrates the evolutionary transformation of an originally farmhouse into a strong east-meets-west style art house. Small, playful details make the rooms unique, such as the brass material, which remind the guests Art Deco style. The Bluestone Slab tiles on the entrance floor prod the guest back to Jiangnan(ancient Chinese) time. Close-finish painting on the surface of the furniture and brass element in detail places give each room an individual character. The whole project has been done with limit budget.
- Project Duration
- The project started in Sep 2018 and finished in Apr 2019 in Nanjing, China.
- Operation Flow
- The artfarm guesthouse should become a temporary home of the guest,meeting point, regeneration and recreational center as well as relax space or base camp for families, sportsmen and connoisseurs. Following the concept to bring the guests a immersive experience of art.
- Research
- The interior design follows the art farm concept,walls in dark blue, furniture and sofas in red and orange,curtains with brass colour at the bottom part, finally to bring the guests an immersive experience of art.
- Inspiration
- The concept of this guesthouse is by using brass element and abstract geometric shapes to create a new Art Deco style guesthouse and integrate with Jiangnan elements in order to present a combination of Chinese and Western luxury taste space.
- Image Credits
- Main image is Image #1: Photographer Han Chen, Variations, 2019.Optional Image #1: Photographer Han Chen, Variations, 2019.Optional Image #2: Photographer Han Chen, Variations, 2019.Optional Image #3: Photographer Han Chen, Variations, 2019.Optional Image #4: Photographer Han Chen, Variations, 2019.
Video Credits: editor Chen Xu, Variations, 2019. - Patents
- Trademark(2018)Trademark Holder:liangzhu management company
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