I was a representative for FELDA in the Malaysian Delegates for One Village One Product (OVOP) 2008 that was held in Changzhou province in China. Arrived in Shanghai International Airport takes about 2 hours departing from KLIA. At first i was thinking in mind, if i could visit or visualizing Chinese Arts and Design elements that would be a great experience for me in my designing perspective of view. Below is most favorite place in Shanghai named Nanjing Road.
However the degates moved to another city name Changzhou, it takes about 4 hours with bus ride from Shanghai Pudong International Airport. 
China is a very big piece of land, every houses has their own huge compound for them to grow crops or anything. I can see that they live by farming to generates their economy.
Proud to see Malaysian National Car 'Proton Gen2' billboard along the highway to Changzhou.
Arriving Tianmu Lake Hotel in Tianmu province.
Surprisingly this room is only for me, alone with two beds. Nice bedroom with five star accommodation.
However the Tianmu Lake Hotel still maintain the craft elements, i found this classic wooden sofa set at the entrance of this hotel dining hall. Fine workmanship with high end quality finishing, i can't recognize what kind of wood that this settee made off.
The tea served for us is a green leaf tea, as we all know that Chinese is well known in healthy meals.
Below is the view of the Tianmu Lake Hotel in the night time.
Then we find out some nice places to go shopping in the middle of the night at the town nearby. Armani imitation bags and others designers imitation product is just a lot there.
Fashionable shoes and dress is quite good here.
The next morning we visit some of the nice places in Changzhou city. In front of the hotel the delegates gather in the mist of cloudy scenery.
China is one of the best in producing silk, the China Silk is very fine and this visit reminds me to Thailand Silk which i have visited the productions in Chiangmai before.
As what i can see, China technology is different, the workmanship also not the same as Thai Silk. China is the most biggest silk producer in the world, they made it in a big scale using huge machine of producing silk and half of the finishing done by handmade.
The cocoons.
the below machine complete the silk threads process until printing the patterns of the silk. You can see the design roll below this machine as the woven process into silk fabric and directly roll down the design prints the silk. That was fast.
The best part of the delegates is...shopping! but not for me...
Because i enjoy the Fashion Show of the Silk end products on the runaway.
After all we had a great lunch at a Muslim restaurant named Beijiang.
The Chinese Rock Garden is and art of landscaping. Like Indonesian, the Balinese style is a must in the trends of modern interior and landscapes, But today i found that Chinese also had their own identity in their interior and landscaping. In the modern way we can refer to Zen style of living which define a minimal way and styling interior design of Chinese concept living.
Not just the rock garden, there are still a lot of buildings here still using the old Chinese building in a modern way.
Gosh they really like red as a symbol of wealthy.
From my overall perspective view, China is a great industrial country, Shanghai City really big comparing to Kuala Lumpur, their towers are thousands filling the land of Shanghai, the roads and highways were almost perfect that i can't even feel any hump or holes on the streets. But the people still maintain as basic as they can, they still producing their originality like their silk from their older generation. And it is getting bigger into a big industry, this growing energy that must be followed by us to keep our native arts and production like our Songket, we must have stronger capability in producing the Songket fabric. Other than that we must have the strenghness in supplying our products worldwide like China export tons of their fabric arround the world yearly. I guess that's all for today! till we meet up in another post! see u guys later!
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Hye Guys! its been a while i didn't update here, my schedule is kinda tight this month, preparing for the coming 'Wellness Industry' exhibition that will be held starting this 23rd until 26th of July. Today i am posting the renovation activity that had been done at a client house. This renovation had been done by my uncle Rahman, he is a freehand designer for his own company that renovates office, houses and landscapes. Yes i always collaborate with him in designing interior and renovating houses, we always exchange ideas and doing research together for better and latest outcome. This previously single story house (now double story) is located in Petaling Jaya, i can say it is an old house since it was built at early 80's. This house had been done a major renovation! from zero to hero. It is not a corner lot house that's why this owner Mrs. Adibah needs to play with serious space management, and that's is uncle Rahman's expertise.
To separate the extended hall into two section, uncle Rahman raised up the floor at about one and a half feet and the flooring is covered perfectly with wooden floor. This wooden floor area is for dining section, the wooden floor will absolutely changing our mood when stepping on it.
The most favorite of me is the ceiling, different with normal plaster ceiling, he stylized the ceiling into a modern concept with down light at four of the corners and extra yellow lights that shadowing the upper side of the ceiling, that's cool.
Now lets us take a look at the kitchen area. The idea is to play with black and red for this kitchen, as u can see the tile is already in black but the cabinet will be built in red, still not ready to be install yet. Below you can see the serving area that separating both kitchen and dining area, how i wish to show you guys when the cabinet is ready!
This is the breakfast table, it was built connecting with the serving table, all in black tiles. And the flooring also designed following the steps to enter the kitchen area. This area is lower then the dining area, means that another two steps down.
This bowl in the above picture as you can see is beside the serving table and facing the dining area. I love the water tap. Now let me bring you to the bathroom, just playing with black and white tiles, simply done and so nice.
This is the shower area, it will be covered with glass door. Stepping in this area will forcing me stepping on the pebbles, while taking the shower the owner can step on the pebbles for foot massage, what a great idea.
The white tiles on the side wall reflects at the big mirror enlighten the whole bathroom and makes the space looks bigger.
Above is the picture of the master bedroom, located at the ground floor and perfectly colored in light warm grey. The owner likes the 3 pieces window that lowered down at almost reach the floor.
The wooden door were painted in white, it is the main entrance for this room. And the white sliding fold door is the entrance to the bathroom. The materials chosen for this house is in high standard, even the switches are from the high quality specs.
Now lets us go the upstairs! the stairs is finish in white tiles and the wall is painted yellowish orange.
Even the stairs holder is built and covered with tilings.
This is the upstairs bathroom, playing with red and black tiles.
Now lets see the children's room. The cat fight between Adibah's two daughter choosing their favorite color for the room, makes both of the color is painted in this room! light pink and light purple.
There you go the small space outside the bedroom area painted green as requested!
The landscape is still an progress, the idea here is to make small Balineese style landscape playing with wood and terracotta. I cant wait to see this house done perfectly and really hope to get a chance to post it here. Anyway thanx for visiting here, i will always update this blog with more interesting materials, and hope to bring the best next for you guys! have a nice day!
