Shanghai is the city of contamination, a link between East and West,
the doorway to the Empire of the Dragon for the rest of the world.
Shanghai is China’s international face, one of the most powerful
economic players of the contemporary era. Strolling from one district
to another, we discover the most surprising urban architectural
solutions. Amidst the original stylistic contradictions and expertly
managed furnishing inconsistencies, the structural rules of urban
architecture are applied to interior design, styles and the taste of
a metropolis that both lives and is continuously transformed at an
amazing rate. Shanghai, a model centre to understand the future
dynamics of architecture, invites daring, unique and distinctive
furnishing proposals. The city relates its past history along tree-
lined avenues enhanced by art décor buildings that recall the
1900s, and amidst streets in which traditional pagodas make
room for arrogant but exclusive modern skyscrapers. Shanghai’s
culture rarely leaves one unimpressed because it is both absorbing
and astounding. The narrative continuum of style abandons glass
and steel façades to enter majestic bedrooms or large sitting-
rooms, which are the observation decks of excellence in a city
skilled in the art of metamorphosis.
SHANGHAI
ICONIC I COLLECTION
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