Butterfly House: A Unique Art Collection

Creating an Ideal Dwelling for Art and Aesthetic Taste

After bidding farewell to the collectivist apartment-style family home concept, villas have long become the first choice for the dream dwelling of China's emerging wealthy class. However, exclusive real estate and larger space will not automatically produce a happy ideal of habitation and a moving aesthetic paradigm. The design of the "Butterfly House" space provides us with a model for discussion. The poetics that embodies the family house must be a balanced poetics.

"Butterfly House" is not a villa in the ordinary sense, but a very unique art collection, where the owner and art are treasured. She lives here and also shares her fashion ideas and ideas with the friends who visit here. Good memories about art. What "Butterfly House" shapes is an ideal of dwelling, which is to cultivate sensibility in the coordination of rationality, and allow aesthetic taste, imagination and joy to grow in space.

On the right side of the door, the gold lacquer screen from the Kangxi period, the yellow corduroy veneer bench in the Italian Art Deco style of the 1920s, and the antique cabinet with 18th century French fine wood inlaid on the left, they remind visitors who enter the "Butterfly House" To the taste of the owner. Then, directly in front of the entrance hall is the famous stainless steel rockery by the sculptor Zhan Wang. Obviously, this exquisite and imposing work plays a role as a gateway in the "Butterfly House".

This is the difficulty of the "Butterfly House" space design: the designer must take into account the creation of the owner's artistic taste, the function of the house, and the designer's own creative impulse. Therefore, it needs a humble, low-key and precise planning. The designer's difficulty lies in understanding and balance, which is a difficult design.

Construction started in Yangming Valley in 2016 and completed in 2019. "Butterfly House" is a project with high aesthetic significance. Mr. Chi Chenping put great effort into the space design of "Butterfly House". It is the humble attitude and balanced philosophy that he emphasizes that enables him to help his master create a rare quality about life aesthetics. In fact, the so-called "poetic dwelling" is nothing more than "Zhuang Zhou's dream of butterfly, body and materialization", and Chi Chenping's design concept fits the meaning of "butterfly dwelling".

This Design was awarded Bronze in A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award in 2021. Bronze A' Design Award: Bestowed upon outstanding and creatively ingenious designs that authenticate experience and resourcefulness. Esteemed for incorporating best practices in art, science, design, and technology, they exhibit strong technical and creative skills and contribute to quality of life improvements, making the world a better place.


Project Details and Credits

Project Designers: Chi Chenping
Image Credits: Photographer: Zhao Yihong
Project Team Members: Chichenping
Project Name: Butterfly
Project Client: Chi Chenping


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