The imperial-style “lifestyle pavilion’ was honoured for its new Bath House Residence, inspired by a Tang dynasty emperor’s bathhouse – He says – It is uniquely distinguished by its green tea infused pampering, wellness and bathing rituals twinned with Chinese music and art, ancient Chinese wisdom and contemporary aesthetics. Complementing the unique, serene retreat is an indulgent onsen-style rooftop hot tub.
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On the glass elevator ring one floor down I can already sense what’s coming. I walk through a few restaurants connected by a glass bridge , from where I can see at the bottom someone swimming in a sensual atmosphere of red and orange lights and bright golden columns . On this same bridge, we pass through a rain of hundreds and hundreds of minute lighting fixtures, sparkling from above and all around us like bright stars in the darkest night.
Shanghai Tang Spring/ Summer Ad Campaign presents The Rite Of The Phoenix, an inspiring tale of re-birth. This new campaign marks the second creative collaboration between Shanghai Tang and renowned photographer Chen Man with famous celebrities Lin Chiling and Hu Bing.
My love affair with China started about 30 years ago well before the movies, Indohine and L’Amant mirrors of a romantic aesthetics and elegant exoticism my soul was compelled to absorb.
Although both took place in Vietnam, my Eastern reverie called upon daring to explore a distant cultural myth , one I instinctively knew somehow, would decline to be slowly extinguished in time.
20 hours later , in 1980, I land in Peking in the midst, of Mao Tse-tung Cultural Revolution at a time where the now deceased leader decides to open China frontiers for tourists from around the world , like me.