A Historic Villa in Changzhou Finds New Life as a Restaurant Celebrating Chinese Heritage with Art Deco Touches

Commissioned to transform a century-old townhouse in Changzhou in China's Jiangsu Province into a restaurant, Hangzhou-based interdisciplinary design practice Bob Chen Design Office took a page from the building’s eclectic mix of Chinese and Western architectural elements, anchoring their design on a dialogue between past and present, tradition and modernity, and East and West.