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    Contemporary Asian Living Rooms
    Contemporary Asian Living Rooms
    Contemporary Asian Living Rooms
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    Contemporary Asian Living Rooms

    By Chami Jotisalikorn, Karina Zabihi and Luca Invernizzi Tettoni

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    With over 180 photographs Contemporary Asian Living Rooms explores 50 of Southeast Asia's most interesting homes and hotels.

    Living room design in Asia has moved away form the classical Asia style to incorporate the new global chic. This Asian design book takes you into the living rooms of fifty of Southeast Asia's most interesting homes and hotels, showcasing the work of up-and-coming local talents such as Pantaa, Yothaka and Tawul Praman as well as the latest in European design.

    Living room interiors range from the starkly minimal to the luxuriously plush - from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Bali. Created by some of the leading talents in contemporary Asian design today, these interiors feature creative shapes, contours, materials and new ways of working with the space where family and friends spend most of their time together in the house.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeriplus Editions
    Release dateJun 5, 2012
    ISBN9781462906536
    Contemporary Asian Living Rooms

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      Contemporary Asian Living Rooms - Chami Jotisalikorn

      contemporary asian

      LIVING ROOMS

      Chami Jotisalikorn and Karina Zabihi

      photos by Luca Invernizzi Tettoni

      Published by Periplus Editions, with editorial offices at 61 Tai Seng Avenue, #02-12, Singapore 534167

      Copyright © 2004 Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd

      Photos© 2004 Luca lnvernizzi Tettoni

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior permission of the publisher.

      LCC Card No. 2005295317

      ISBN: 978-1-4629-0653-6 (ebook)

      Printed in Singapore

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      contemporary living rooms:

      embracing the new global chic

      From Bangkok to Bali, a relaxed new mood in contemporary living is steering the shapes and textures that form today's Asian living rooms. In luxury homes and design hotels across the region, seating is invitingly low-slung and laid back; cushions are deep and abundant; a heightened appreciation for air and light prevails. The new Asian living room beckons as a refuge from the jumbled cacophony of modern urban life. The new serenity to be found in living room spaces conveys the search for a sense of peace and order in our interior world, almost as if in response to the increasing unpredictability of the world beyond the walls of our home. Featured in the pages of this book are some of the most stylish living rooms across Southeast Asia, revealing how the formal elegance of pre-millennial living and entertaining has been replaced by a new desire for easy relaxation. The contemporary living room is a place that is meant to invite, not intimidate.

      Traditionally, the key aspect of the tropical Asian living room is its relationship with the surrounding environment. Indeed, the distinction between western and tropical Asian living rooms lies in their opposing attitudes toward the external environment. In western homes, the living room is the space that shows the family's public face to visitors, a space that conveys status. One enters a European house through a formal entrance hall, then through doors leading into other rooms. The doors are functional, as they keep cold blasts of wintry air from chilling the rooms inside the house. It is no surprise then that the western living room centers on a hearth for warmth and comfort, enclosing people inside and protecting them from the harsher elements outside.

      In the balmy climes of tropical Asia, the opposite rules prevail. In the mostly open-air lifestyles of Southeast Asia, there is hardly a formal front door, let alone any sort of formal entrance hall. The living room, or any communal social area in traditional Asian houses is open to the outdoors on all sides, or consists of a roofed pavilion with no walls, like the Indonesian bale or the Thai sala. The concept of living in tropical Asia embraces the outdoors as part of the living space, designed to incorporate cooling breezes and cross ventilation to ease the searing heat. The outdoor verandah is an important part of

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