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Designer Jin Chen’s light-filled apartment in Taipei combines the tenets of wabi-sabi: aesthetic minimalism and imperfection. In addition to Chen’s newly launched ECRU Studios the designer is the owner of Delicate Antique, restaurant Xiang Se, and private member’s bar Staff Only

In the living room natural, raw textures in the form of original concrete walls, an antique stone bust, a marble sculpture, a mid-century table and an antique wooden chair from Denmark combine with plush soft furnishings.

Above the sofa is an abstract painting by an unknown Dutch artist; an unusually shaped chair from an antique dealer in Belgium sits before a brocaded 18th-century French screen. The slab of carved stone was purchased from a dealer in Ghent.

Via @design_anthology Photo by ECRU Studio

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I always kind of hoped to meet a model that could fill Bettie Page’s shoes and be the ultimate long term Muse for me; expressive, massively creative and simultaneously cute and wildly sensuous. It did come close a couple of times that lasted (much) longer than usual. However, life always got in the way of the arts at some point, and stopped it. But it did always inspire me a whole lot and what’s more, it pushed me to actually get better quicker too. It’s not about the hairdo at all, of course, that’s just a way to get that Bettie Page vibe in there. Bettie Page may only be a memory from even before my time, she left a vivid and exemplary image behind nonetheless. No snapchat or sillicone, no filters or fillers, no tattoos, just pure inspiration.
For patrons this picture was posted in its original (less dressed) state much earlier!
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