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Leading a poetic lifestyle is what I currently aspire to. However, the most poetic lines are not built upon flowery rhetoric or level and oblique tunes. What really touches us can also be something simple and unadorned, and humbleness can also mean elegance.
Located on Huashan Road near the center of the former Shanghai French Concession, Chasing's club is a low-profile-looking building with a broad internal layout among a group of classic western-style houses. Under whirling shades of camphor trees and an environment of profound history, Chasing's club is designed to highlight the glamour of eternity and peace, as well as the Shanghai-style aesthetics of life.
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The project is situated between high-density residential areas and medium-density townhouse clusters in Shanghai, and is in close proximity to the major traffic artery, Huashan Road. As a private club, it demands a high level of privacy and tranquility. The nearly hundred-meter-long courtyard lawn, along with the dense and lush vegetation of the nearby high-rise residences, elegantly insulates noise and sightlines.
In contrast to the rich collection of art pieces within the interior spaces, the outdoor landscape is kept understated with a large expanse of pure lawn, bringing a sense of breathing to the spatial experience.
The entire double-floor spaces are arranged in a U-shaped pattern; within the elevated entrance is a spiral staircase combining dark oak wood and iron art, looking as if it were a winding curve running through the entire space to establish a strikingly vivid dialog with the white wall.
In terms of wall surface treatment, the integration of artistic coating, limestone and paint is employed to conceal the tracks of mirror painting, representing a perfect combination of functionality and aesthetics. In the meantime, the boundary between the wall and ceiling surfaces is blurred to direct viewers’ eyes towards the former, reducing the disadvantage of the original floor height.
The entire atmosphere of the space is dominated by black, white and red hues. Utilizing the subtly alternating deep and shallow color effects arising from natural or artificial textures, such as the black “gold” tiles produced from imperial kilns on the first floor, the customized Art Deco patterned carpets on the second floor, the three sliding doors painted by Chinese red coating, the black smoked oak wood spiral staircase, natural marble lights, natural limb stone door and window frames - each one of the spaces is defined by cozy, simplistic and exquisite details.
The majority of furniture and lights in these spaces are design works of NONG COLLECTION, with some being part of the vintage collections of the owner. Each one of the artworks and ornaments has been carefully selected from years’ worth of collections of the owner, which include glass sculptures by Naoya Arakawa, lacquer items by Akito Akagi, glass ware by Kazumi Tsuji, tea ceremony sets by Wang Wende, iron-art sheepskin desk lamp by William Morris, an initiator of the Art&crafts movement in the
NONGSTUDIO is a multidisciplinary team of creatives and professionals dedicated to make the physical world a better place to live in. Based out of our combined hands-on research and design studio, we create space, objects and expanded into a multidisciplinary practice with a focus that goes beyond what it looks like, to prioritize greatest positive value and impact.
Chasing WANG, assistant professor in College of D&I at Tongji University, co-founder of NONGSTUDIO, who represents the the group of 85’s architects. Born and bred in Shanghai traditional literary family, educated in Politecnico di Milano and Parsons, working experience in Yabu Pushelberg broaden his west-meets-east horizons, Chasing borrows aesthetics from cultural diversity of East and West, pays homage to aesthetics, crafts, details of traditional heritage and combines reference with a futuristic vision.
