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« Reply #15 on: July 31, 2008, 02:38:51 PM » |
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how do you make a comparison between ming and qing. it is simply a prefernece of style. i find the ming style too minimalist.
To be fair Ming furniture is strictly for investment, noone will actually use or sit on a piece they have bought. The thing about HK is that that you can pick your favourite style and have it made with real good wood felled from Burma and Indonesia etc. I have a very nice cupboard (7 feet long, full length wood) made with HK$7000 about 4 years ago. |
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 Please join our forum, we are nice people. Smokie is stationed in China, Art is Irish, Drive By is Aussie, Leon is from somewhere and Shan and I are Chinese. We were mostly dissidents of another forum, that's how we met. Truth interests us. Hope to meet you soon |
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« Reply #16 on: July 31, 2008, 02:43:02 PM » |
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That will get you RIGHT on Driveby's side ... tell him the wood is the product of the denuding of Burma.
You're not making friends.
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« Reply #17 on: July 31, 2008, 02:48:52 PM » |
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hopefully it was made by prison labour. actually i made a front porch out of merbau wood from indonesia and felt guilty about it for a year. heard a great interview from willie smitts on his book. http://www.amazon.com/Thinkers-Jungle-Gerd-Schuster/dp/0841602859the babies are cute and look like chinese babies  |
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« Reply #20 on: July 31, 2008, 06:29:15 PM » |
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Okay ,prepare a jet to move the stuff then My uncle will be more than happy to sell those furniture out with 50000RMB Think about a person who was born in a house full of such old furniture and also grew up in an old city like Suzhou,will be impressed by it ? i am not saying that our furniture were inherited from Qing or Ming dynasty for sure ,but they are definitely old and better than what driveby shows us.. Considering my grandmother was from a rich business family ..i think they are good furniture |
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« Reply #21 on: July 31, 2008, 07:00:15 PM » |
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Any pictures?
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« Reply #22 on: July 31, 2008, 07:26:27 PM » |
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Shame , after my grandparents passed away , i haven't been to lianshi town, Zhejiang
my uncle keeps it
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« Reply #24 on: August 01, 2008, 12:20:52 PM » |
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I would love to go to Shouzhou again. If Smokie goes back to Shouzhou, I will visit you and Shan and look at the furniture in a go  Drive By, are you coming as well? |
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« Reply #25 on: August 01, 2008, 12:52:08 PM » |
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Welcome, free meals will be provided in my father's restaurants .
i am very curious about driveby's looks
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