La Maison Xun Restaurant, Beijing

In a courtyard in Beijing’s Beilucaoyuan Hutong, La maison Xun, a Chinese restaurant. Unlike the high-end restaurants that are prevailing these days, La maison Xun is designed with modern art in its interior while being designed with traditional art in its exterior.

In today’s world full of dazzling aesthetics, Designer Liu Daohua insists on respect for history and nature and leads people to trace the tranquility of old Beijing in memory. Different spaces have different forms and meanings. As far as La maison Xun is concerned, the essence of its design lies in the introspective experience towards aesthetics and art and the sense of the times among intuitive feelings, namely, to feel the natural serenity of the city by turning eyes to the secluded old Hutong.

When you push the red gate and walk into the courtyard, what leaps to your eyes are traditional Chinese art elements such as grey tiles, wooden eaves, black walls, and ancient trees, which leads back to those gorgeous days.

LDH Design intended to face the tradition and antique with an attitude of returning to original simplicity by deliberately avoiding heavy and complicated pile-up, namely, removing the cumbersome “makeup”, restoring the structure of the building, and restoring the traces of history. In such a cozy environment, the cultural attributes of, traditional memory and temperature on the courtyard for several hundred years have been re-presented, maintaining the historical sense of beauty without losing the elegance of modern aesthetics.