No More Overstuffed Sofas
Her teahouse taps into a growing trend: China’s new appreciation for modern interior design. For the most part, the interest comes from mainland Chinese who’ve been exposed to Western thinking and expat Westerners. But their refined taste–and standards of quality–are beginning to catch on among other middle-class Chinese. “There are more projects than interior designers can handle,” says Briton Adam Robarts, of the cutting-edge Beijing design firm Robarts Interiors. “China is the land of the future....