Guang Fu Feast Restaurant | NONG STUDIO

All the rivers run into the sea, all the gentry attend the feast.

This design reproduced the old Cantonese delicacies in a Shanghai mansion from the very beginning. In this way, the gorgeous banquet from Canton in Shanghai can be passed on. The intention is to rebuild a mansion of an industrial tycoon surging in Shanghai.

The site is located inside a bustle shopping mall. To eliminate the interference of the surrounding environment, the layout is set to suppress the obtrusion from the commercial environment psychologically and visually. There is a front hall (used as an introduction), a corridor, a small hall (used as a small table hall), and a shadow wall (used as a bar counter). When guests arrive at the symmetrical main hall, they can finally achieve emotional and spatial clearness.

In the hall, the brown-yellow bamboo-shade wallpaper and old teak wall panels show the classic keynotes of the Shanghai-style mansion. The furniture collections are scattered. There are large lacquer round screens inlaid with nacre, rococo palace chandeliers, Japanese antique and curio cabinets, Chinese side tables inlaid nacre, full-carved double-decked dining tables, British Chippendale desks, Art Deco wall lamps, Italian pagoda cabinets inlaid with colourful shells, and more of the same. On the wall are engravings of contemporary artist Xu Lei, "Ban Shen Yuan", "Long Ma Xian", Ting Xiongquan's "Woman and Parrot", and writer Jin Yucheng's illustrations. All these artworks convey the extraordinary tolerance of being inclusive of all the rivers.

Two sets of installations reflecting each other on the central axis: one is behind the Gothic bar, the Art Deco style stained glass background wall; the other that corresponding with it is the "De Liu Guang" plaque hanging at the end of the main hall, which tells unchanging motto of the old Shanghai family. One from China and the other from the west, one from the ancient and one from the modern. This contrast closely linked to the identity of the "Mansion" and demonstrates the charm of Shanghai of every hue.

Different from the magnificent grace of the main hall, the small hall and the 4 private rooms at the entrance are of implicit beauty. Some are decorated with baroque crystal chandeliers to highlight the Shanghai-style, some are supplemented by the fritillary large lacquer wall to present South China ink-like flavour. Although the themes are different, all these designs are of the concise grace of the East and the luxury of the West.

Join in the hospitality, join the elegant feast.