Design Anthology

Form Meets Function

Over tea at New York’s Baccarat Hotel, James Wei Ke, design principal at Chiasmus Partners, shows me photos of his firm’s latest project, a village in Zhejiang province that resembles a scene from a traditional Chinese ink wash painting.

Flanked by limestone cliffs and

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