I think British India is the ultimate place for the fusion of architectural styles especially the so called "Saracenic style" which combines Islamic styles with Gothic -one of the most notable examples being the central rail station in Mumbai but there are also loads of rajah's palaces combining Indian styles with baroque and classical.
@kesorangutan6170
Жыл бұрын
Sicily had a mix of Latin, greek and muslim architecture styles. It is also very fascinating!
@kaloarepo288
Жыл бұрын
@@kesorangutan6170 The mother of the Bourbon king who had the Palazzina cinese built in Palermo was from the Saxony royal family -famous for the Meissen porcelain -she was responsible for the similar Capodimonte porcelain factory in Naples - there is definitely a link with chinoiserie there!
@bmona7550
Жыл бұрын
Almost every Asian country that was colonized or influenced by the West had some architecture that combined those from the East with those from the West
@_Just_Another_Guy
Жыл бұрын
Ah, thank you! That explains why I've seen some buildings in South Asia and Middle East that looked like as if a Gothic Church like the Notre Dame and Islamic Mosque had been fused together.
@abyssstrider2547
Жыл бұрын
@@_Just_Another_GuyI set the Gothic Church down, i play Islamic mosque, i play fusion!
@edwardkravchuk5659
Жыл бұрын
I find it interesting when civilizations build in the style of others. Would be cool to see a video on China building European architecture.
@cefacicoaie
Жыл бұрын
It happened and happens. The Chinese equivalent of Chinoiserie is ‘Europenserie’. Two examples of this are the Old Summer Palace, also known as Yuanmingyuan, and more recently Tianducheng. There are multiple replicas of European buildings in China built in recent years too.
@quartillo
Жыл бұрын
@@cefacicoaieWe become París in China lol
@quartillo
Жыл бұрын
Hong Kong
@edwardkravchuk5659
Жыл бұрын
@@cefacicoaie Are there any images of Yuanmingyuan in it's former glory? I only see pictures of ruins.
@andrzejszpak688
Жыл бұрын
@@edwardkravchuk5659There are drawings and some 3d recreations.
@elgranjuanito817
Жыл бұрын
There are many great examples of Chinoiserie buildings in Vietnam, where French architecture was elegantly fused with Asian aesthetics, such as the National History Museum in Hanoi, the City Hall of Saigon, and of course churches all over that country.
@brickstonesonn9276
Жыл бұрын
Same with the Philippines too. Spanish architecture & Chinese architecture & the native architecture blended together a lot. Bahay na Bato, the traditional house during the colonial period, is a great example of these three architectural styles blending together. (You see a lot of them in pre-WW2 footage) The pre-1880 gate of fort Santiago is also a great example. As is many churches across the country. Especially the parts where there were a lot of Chinese settlers.
@AndreeaNastase
Жыл бұрын
I think the style from Vietnam ended up being its own subgenre, “Indochine” style. I appreciate its aesthetics but know little about its history.
@conho4898
Жыл бұрын
Architectures in Vietnam are not Chinoiserie. Those are styles mixed between French and Vietnamese, not Chinese.
@lc9245
Жыл бұрын
That’s colonial architecture. This is something else.
@elgranjuanito817
Жыл бұрын
@@AndreeaNastase You’re correct! I should not have equated the “Indochine” architecture that resulted from the French colonization and cultural influence with this Chinoiserie architecture, which is merely a European reimagining of Chinese aesthetics. On the other hand, colonization has a profound and even lasting impact on the culture of a people, their art, and architecture. I appreciate your comment.
@mimamo
Жыл бұрын
As always a great and very interesting video, I am surprised however that you failed to mention the grandest and most lavish chinoiserie palace of them all, Pillnitz Palace near Dresden. Not just is it an outstanding example of that style, but as you might also know, Dresden/Saxony played an especially important role in the development of the chinoiserie style, since it was there that they first managed to perfectly recreate Chinese porcelain in Europe, which revolutionized porcelain and pottery on the continent.
@kingsandthings
Жыл бұрын
You're right, I should have included Pillnitz. It was on my list of considered buildings but I forgot about it somewhere along the line! Sorry about that.
@untruelie2640
Жыл бұрын
@@kingsandthings Mistakes are human. We still love your videos. :)
@wotruannwah5678
Жыл бұрын
Like Harry Dresdin?
@kti5682
Жыл бұрын
If you want to go smaller you can also visit the Fasanenschlösschen in Moritzburg. Overall our Kings tried to imitate France a bit at the time.
@Superbonnuit
Жыл бұрын
Conversely Koreans built a Western-style palace called Seokjojeon Palace, Japanese called Akasaka Palace and Chinese called Xiyang Lou at the Old Summer Palace
@mikan1546
Жыл бұрын
While they are interesting in their own right, I would say that they're a bit of a different phenomenon. They were all designed by architects and artists trained in the Western tradition. Seokjojeon was designed by a British architect, Akasaka Palace was designed by the protégé of a British architect who also studied design in England and America, and the Xiyang Lou buildings were designed and engineered by European Jesuit scholars. So, I would say that these are creative applications of Western-style architecture in an Eastern setting rather than being imaginative interpretations of Western design in the same way that Chinoiserie was historically an imaginative interpretation of Eastern design.
@seanrowshandel1680
Жыл бұрын
Well that's because it's called xiyang lou.
@Flymoki13
Жыл бұрын
@@mikan1546China occupied a fantasy place in Europe's imagination and reports by the Jesuits only embellished it even more, since the Jesuits were trying hard to make a new name for themselves after being so much blamed for the loss of Japan's Christianization (although it was never actually expressive by Japanese standards). Furthermore, China's confucianism was received by European intellectual circles as an authoritative form of despotism so successful that it continued to thrive after thousands of years, the sort of narrative that pleased both absolute regimes in power at the time in Europe and the rising Noblesse de robe (the European equivalents to Chinese scholar-officials)
@Flymoki13
Жыл бұрын
@@mikan1546and it is interesting to realize the European nations that enjoyed most everyday contact with Chinese people at that time were Portugal, Spain and Netherlands. They didn't initiate the chinoiserie mania and proved to be largely uninterested in the trend after going fashionable in other European nations, which ones were places like France, UK, Italy and Holy Roman Empire, people with little to none contact with the real Chinese. It goes to show China as a fantasy land worked finely for the ones that didn't come to easily meet or know the Chinese. Spain, Portugal and Netherlands were so familiar with the Chinese to the point of launching massacres, Batavia massacre and Sangley Rebellion. China as a barbarous land became more acceptable in Europe's overall consciousness during the course of the 19th century after the 1842 Treaty of Nanking was signed, opening the true face of China to the outside world. Until then, Europeans were exposed to China only through the Canton system, extremely confined to a small piece of land that housed wealthy chinese merchants (Cohong) and confucian men of letters serving Chinese Bureaucracy, showing off the best of chinese glamour and etiquette that could meet European standards, yeah they were aware of them and serving their Nation, for example Chinese export silver imitated European silverwork. This was unlike Macau (Portugal), Batavia and Malacca (Dutch) or Manila (Spain) where the average, miserable and 'Barbarous' Chinese could be readily found, migrants unprepared for dealing with Europe's ego and prone to moral judgment
@theallochan
Жыл бұрын
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@MrPlito95
Жыл бұрын
I have been fascinated by all these examples of mutual cultural fascination between the East and the West. There are so many examples both in the different epochs of history and today. I always felt that it came from the fact that, both ends of the Old Continent feel that, in a way, they are looking into a very distorted mirror: we both see societies with very similar and very different characteristics to our own, and both societies feel deeply curious about what they see. Maybe atracted, maybe disgusted -I would say it depends on the historical moment-, but both sides cant seem to be able to look away. The gaming japanese industry making games inspired in the European Middle Ages, the European impressionists taking heavy inspiration from the recently opened japanese culture, the Chinoiserie showed in this video and the Europeneserie that some people have mentioned in the comments... Its a topic that deserves a deeper investigation. Edit: typos.
@dayangmarikit6860
Жыл бұрын
Perfectly worded… even in Southeast Asia there’s the Grand Palace in Bangkok which mixed European and Thai architecture. In the Philippines (Bahay na Bato) mixed Spanish and Indigenous architecture… Look up (Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar) on the web. The Spaniards also adopted local Philippine fashion and it spread throughout their empire and Europe as a whole. The pre-colonial women of the Philippines, especially those in Manila wore shawls called (Alampay)... the upper class women wore silk shawls which were highly embroidered with gold thread and beads. These shawls were adopted by the Spaniards and they referred to them as (Manton de Manila) or (Manila Shawls), this fashion spread to their American colonies and later to Spain itself, you’d actually see Spanish women dancing Flamenco with Manila Shawls.
@MrPlito95
Жыл бұрын
@@dayangmarikit6860 Absolutely!! Im Spaniard myself and the mantones are a very priced, high quality product very much rooted in Spanish culture, wore in special occasions.
@lzh4950
Жыл бұрын
Dejima neighbourhood in Nagasaki, Japan comprises of buildings fusing both Japanese & Dutch culture (as Dutch traders lived there)
@pdruiz2005
Жыл бұрын
Chinoiserie was a fun convergence in the 1700s of the same attitude in the West AND East. In China, the Qianlong Emperor had invited some Jesuit priests to remain long-term at his court. These Jesuits introduced all sorts of European architectural, interior decorating and painting techniques to the Chinese imperial court. So the use of European perspective and realism was incorporated in traditional Chinese paintings, to interesting effect. Then there were European-style pavilions at the Old Summer Palace outside Beijing. The Qianlong Emperor commanded the Jesuits to build for him a pleasure palace in the European manner. So the Jesuits incorporated some Chinese elements into a European rococo building. It was very similar in dimensions and some of its style to the Sans-Souci pleasure palace in Postdam, Germany (then Prussia). Too bad the British and French then went on to burn down this fusion edifice in 1860, during the Second Opium War.
@kaloarepo288
Жыл бұрын
As part of the Jesuit mission to China (which almost succeeded in converting the emperor to Christianity) the Jesuits brought a group of western musicians to China playing what is now called baroque music - the emperor was so enthralled by this music that he couldn't get enough of it an ordered his own musicians to imitate that style.I find it very interesting now, as a lover of western classical music, that east Asians including Chinese,Japanese, Koreans, Taiwanese, Singaporeans and others are at the forefront of playing western classical music and some of the major virtuosos in this genre are Asians like Lang Lang, Sumi Jo, and many many others and that in the Peoples Republic of China itself great cultural centers have been built that have western style orchestras and play western classical music as well as traditional Asian styles. Same thing didn't happen in India and south Asian areas.
@dunkyourdonuts2282
Жыл бұрын
Yes was just about to comment this. I visited the HK palace museum and was surprised to see quite a bit of European designs and items, especially clocks and mirrors.
@arslongavitabrevis5136
Жыл бұрын
@@kaloarepo288 Very interesting information. Thank you very much!
@arslongavitabrevis5136
Жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for this information. Do you know of any books on this subject? I mean the cultural exchanges between Europe and the Chinese empire.
@memofromessex
Жыл бұрын
The final one, the Sicillian one, looks positively post-modern in it's massive clash of styles. It wouldn't look out of place in the Trafford Centre!
@DirMichaelDavid
Жыл бұрын
yea, it's the ugliest building in the video
@gken_ny
Жыл бұрын
Love this video! I was in the royal palace in Madrid a few years ago and I was so confused why a few rooms had depictions of what looked like Qing dynasty life on some of the ceilings. Now I have my answer!
@kilantravels
Жыл бұрын
This is fascinating! I notice that the color schemes and the overall aesthetics all look very similar to the ones favored but the Peranakan Chinese in the olden days. Peranakan Chinese are the descendants of Chinese men who married native Indonesian (and other countries in Southeast Asia) women who were Western educated, assimilated to the local culture, but maintained Chinese traditions.
@aldenteh9412
Жыл бұрын
True, I'm a Peranakan Baba myself. Our traditional houses are colourful and mixed with countless cultures together, most notably western with Chinese structures. In Malacca and Penang of Malaysia, there are Peranakan mansions still standing after decades and possibly more than a century. Some became hotels, some became museums. Sadly these mansions are no longer built anywhere in the world due to its difficult details and structures. The last places with these mansions are in 2 states of Malaysia which are Penang island and Malacca.
@JohnDoeno.12
Жыл бұрын
Phenomenal video as always. I really appreciate your topics and how well researched they all are. Everything is presented so well. Absolutely love it!
@fluffylee
Жыл бұрын
I’ve been to The Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm, Sweden. It’s location is at the far end of the garden so if you have mobility issues be aware you may need to rest half way. The palace is on the Public Transport line so very convenient for traveling from Stockholm. Definitely the palace overall (including the theatre) is worth the half day trip. If I were to go back I’d take the boat ride to get there.
@artlike335
Жыл бұрын
Same. Went there this summer and felt like dying while walking there😂 But the place is quite beautiful and interesting, in particular the room construction in the upper floor
@silviasanchez648
Жыл бұрын
I love the Italian building just for the sheer weirdness of it.
@l0lLorenzol0l
Жыл бұрын
I wonder what the Chinese would think of it, both modern ones and ones from the past at the time these buildings were made.
@ruedelta
Жыл бұрын
A sign of the times. It's nice to think that it existed, unfortunately history gets darker from here on out. As for the actual style, it's obvious that they were more focused on the trappings rather than the concepts, so perhaps translation was poor back in their time. Not to mention, Confucius receives a lot of attention but not Laozi, which is indicative of the relative influence of Confucian scholars probably misleading Europeans into thinking that Confucianism (and neo-Confucianism at that) was all that had to be studied. The naturalism inherent to Daoism and ergo the general understanding and compositing of architecture and nature is missing, especially since that should be most prominent in garden designs. Regardless, there is definitely a lot of love and attention in these Chinoiserie buildings, and it is probably on us that the information was so poor.
@GodOfVictory501
Жыл бұрын
I really enjoy these videos. Very relaxing and escapist. They leave one with the same refreshed feeling as after having spent an hour or two in a great European museum or palace.
@_jpg
Жыл бұрын
Great video :D It was highly interesting to watch, especially because I went to many locations somehow connected with this topic: The Tivoli Theme Park in Copenhagen, the first European porcelain manufacturer in Meißen, the Zwinger in Dresden, as well as the Palace of Sanssouci. Fun fact: Apparently, Frederick the Great was so jealous at the Meißner porcelain, that he stole lots of it during the Seven Years Wars, while fighting against Saxony.
@hijodelsoldeoriente
Жыл бұрын
This is fascinating. As someone from a culture whose architecture is an amalmagation of European and Asian styles resulting into what people would call arquitectura mestizaje, seeing this gives me a sense of familiarity.
@enzocompanbadillo5365
Жыл бұрын
Suena a Filipinas. ¿de dónde eres?
@hijodelsoldeoriente
Жыл бұрын
@@enzocompanbadillo5365 Sí, Soy de las Filipinas . ¿Como supiste? 😂
@luissantiagomijareso.2450
Жыл бұрын
@@hijodelsoldeoriente I mean, mestizaje is a word in Spanish (Language previously spoken in Philippines) and the most populous Spanish colony in Asia were the Philippines.
@arsantiqua8741
Жыл бұрын
As a fellow from the same island group, I agree.
@roundninja
Жыл бұрын
Excellent video! I've been fascinated by Chinoiserie for years, but there's not as much content about it on KZitem as I'd like
@pdruiz2005
Жыл бұрын
At 0:32. Fascinating. I had never heard of a European pleasure palace built completely of porcelain. That was a very expensive undertaking back in the 1670s. Porcelain was worth its weight in gold. The Chinese did the same, building a giant porcelain tower in Nanjing in the early 1400s. Since the Chinese were way better with porcelain making, the tower stood the test of time and lasted centuries instead of seeing cracks within 10 year of construction. This porcelain tower so amazed European and Arab visitors that it became a true "wonder of the world" back before the mid-1800s, when it was destroyed during a Chinese civil war.
@bewareofpigeons
Жыл бұрын
Very interesting video with a pleasant narrative voice; the absence of the Prince Regent/Geroge IV's Brighton Pavilion should perhaps be noted.
@lucycooper9149
Жыл бұрын
It's not really Chinoiserie though? Rather more inspired by India. Not sure what that makes it other than an example of orientalism.
@forthrightgambitia1032
Жыл бұрын
@@lucycooper9149 There is a Chinese room there, but yes, the palace in its day was known as 'Hindoo style'.
@inquisitive-
Жыл бұрын
I think these styles were much more common and widespread and deliberately dismantled to melt down the copper and gold or simply relocate artifacts to private residences during times of upheaval. Many barebone structures have strikingly obviously empty reliefs that clearly once held something. Its interesting to ponder whether or not the brick towers worldwide once had the typical chinese style canopies adorned on them
@Suz-e-K
Жыл бұрын
Marvelous video. The images, music, and narration are fabulous. Thank you for putting the time and effort into this topic.
@_Just_Another_Guy
Жыл бұрын
They're basically the equivalent of "McMansions" in the U.S. "McMansions" are American fancy-pants houses that incorporate various European styles from different decades. For example, there'd be a rounded bay wall windows from the Victorian era houses, then right beside it would be pillars and a little balcony over the front door from the Tudor era house style.
@pdruiz2005
Жыл бұрын
At 13:52. Fun fact: there is a similar trompe l'oeil hall in the Forbidden City in Beijing, China. The Qianlong Emperor was enamored with the Jesuits at his court, especially when they introduced European-style realism and perspective to Chinese painting. So he commanded these Jesuits to paint for him a huge hall with trompe l'oeil all over in the 1780s. It was to be part of the emperor's retirement quarters, as he was pretty old by then. It is a magnificent hall, filled with all sorts of European-style illusions but with Chinese symbolism incorporated throughout. It was renovated about 20 years ago, though I think it's still closed to the public. I think nowadays only distinguished foreign guests of the Chinese government are allowed to see it.
@arkaneforyou
Жыл бұрын
I love your voice and presentation of the topic.
@apatsa_basiteni
Жыл бұрын
This strange architecture fusion would make a great videogame or fantasy film setting.
@micahistory
Жыл бұрын
wow this is super interesting. I never even knew that much about this style. Also I once again just have to comment on how loveley and soothing your videos are, they are truly one of a kind
@mariuszszymczak3644
Жыл бұрын
The intricate details, vibrant colors, and traditional elements can create a captivating and harmonious ambiance in your living spaces. Embracing this design can reflect your appreciation for rich cultural aesthetics and a sense of timeless elegance in your home.
@StanAyesha-xu2df
Жыл бұрын
Feel how useless this lazy shit is, random AI-written comments on an architectural video essay. ChatGPT was a mistake for KZitem lmao
@thegreatleaderjimpickens7919
Жыл бұрын
It feels like some high fantasy elven architecture designs were derived from chinoiserie. I'm looking at Rivendell with it's peculiar roof crenelations, and window placements resembling nets. Also, night elf's kaldorei in world of warcraft resembles east asian cities.
@grumbeard
Жыл бұрын
For those interested Chinoiserie was also a very nice style in clock cases. Especially the grandfather clock variants can be spectacular.
@marquamfurniture
Жыл бұрын
Excellent research reference, illustrations. and narration. Thank you for a high quality production.
@Kraliezec
Жыл бұрын
Informative, interesting and relaxing narration, thank you. The subdued tone is very easy on my ears.
@tdoran616
Жыл бұрын
Now do when China tries to build European architecture or Asia trying to build European architecture, there’s many examples of it. They even added Asian elements to the buildings when they built European architecture.
@Phlegethon
Жыл бұрын
And now the Chinese build European architecture, we've all come full circle bootlegging each other
@tipohungary
Жыл бұрын
i saw the pagoda in kew 3 weeks ago, it is a spectacular building with amongst the other ones on site. That was the first time i saw something like this.
@krishpatel3156
Жыл бұрын
its always a treat when you upload!
@donaldmarmen7503
Жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed. My favorite is the pavillon in Potsdam. But why did you exclude the Pillnitz Castle outside of Dresden?
@Sofus.
Жыл бұрын
I remember watching German detective films in my childhood, that all pretended to be set in England but were actually shot in Germany with classic English style castles and manors.
@johnbacarinos
Жыл бұрын
Edgar Wallace …..don’t forget England and Germany are not too dissimilar
@pollutingpenguin2146
Жыл бұрын
Tivoli gardens have a few interesting Chinese and Indian inspired buildings too. The Nimb, the Pantomime theatre and the Chinese pagoda.
@kaloarepo288
Жыл бұрын
The Tivoli gardens in Copenhagen takes its name from the Villa de Este in Tivoli near Rome especially the hundreds of fountains in the gardens.
@_jpg
Жыл бұрын
I was there three weeks ago, it's fantastic! 😄
@nunosilva187
Жыл бұрын
Asian style architecture was a great influence in europe after the discovery of the maritine route to India and China because it allowed architects to more easily travel there and look at architectural traditions separated from the classical and medieval european tradition. Basically, it allowed their creativity flowrish because they weren't as tied down to the old ways as before. It also helped with the study of urbanism in indian and chinese cities where they followed a more "heavenly" way of urbanism, meaning their streets were dictated by religious and cultural practics instead of an economic and defensive system that europe developed
@johnisaacfelipe6357
Жыл бұрын
there is a religious tradition that existed in europe, religious and cultural background of europe also played into how they structured their urbanism.
@nunosilva187
Жыл бұрын
@@johnisaacfelipe6357 in some ways yes and no. if we go back to the classical period our cities were built around a common square that was dedicated to public commerce and judicial hearings, because their society was very law based and wanted to incorporate the whole of the city. In the medieval period we started to diverge into more isolated settlements around feudal keeps and in larger cities the city centers of before were replaced with compact housing and artisanal crafts. This was because the focus was on protection around the feudal lord. Now, during renaissance we reverted back to a form of urbanism focused around public squares and interconnected, rational designs because of the humanist movement of the era. Onwards it was more of the same.
@johnisaacfelipe6357
Жыл бұрын
@@nunosilva187 sounds like fake history, in many city and town squares around europe lies a church or cathedral, only in modernity has europe lost its religious expressions.
@Flymoki13
Жыл бұрын
Asian style architecture was never a great influence in Europe
@johnisaacfelipe6357
Жыл бұрын
@@Flymoki13 I would say that there was some significant influence though to say that europe had no local religious and cultural schema in its urbanism is utterly ridiculous
@naomitarot104
Жыл бұрын
They should have all been offended by those appropriaters. Every time somebody walks past the building they must make sure to give credit as to not be racist appropriaters LOL this is the insane agenda of today
@elliot4013
Жыл бұрын
Waiting for more videos from you
@aleverettes2789
Жыл бұрын
5:00 Can confirm those are the most accurate depiction of Chinese I've ever seen in Europe
@kingsandthings
Жыл бұрын
I think I read somewhere that they were modeled on people who just happened to live nearby. So if you could travel back in time to the 18th century you might find these people on the streets of Potsdam!
@something2thinkabout227
Жыл бұрын
I love some of these videos, and I suggest a topic: the most impressive historical mausoleums. Whether they hold the remains of kings, popes, or robber barons.
@johnnysun6495
Жыл бұрын
Do a video on when china tried to do western architecture (Xiyang Lou)
@Mezelenja
Жыл бұрын
Man voice is so relaxing I forget to focus on what he's saying
@ucminhvo295
Жыл бұрын
Not only Chinese, the French also tried to build Vietnamese architectures, when they colonised Vietnam, they found that many of the previous Lê dynasty buildings was destroyed by the Nguyễn dynasty when the Nguyễn took over Vietnam, many French architects tried to revise these old sites and want to build some back in France but ended up resulting in creating "Indochinese" architectures meaning a blend of Nguyễn dynasty Vietnamese + French + Late Qing Chinese architects
@alvivaashdown8133
Жыл бұрын
I wish Catherine the Great's village could have been completed, the drawings are remarkably accurate to actual Chinese architecture of the time and I think it would have been incredible to see
@krunoslavkovacec1842
Жыл бұрын
Fun fact: there is a small town in southern Poland called Žywiec. There is a park with a Chinese style pavillion in a local park.
@Kiyoone
Жыл бұрын
Incredible. THIS is beautiful architecture... the modern architecture (1950 ~ now) is trash compared to this...
@55hondafit53
Жыл бұрын
There's a government building in Cambodia that is French and Khmer inspired. I believe it's called the ministry of Urban planning.
@AugustineCheng
Жыл бұрын
on the other hand, modern china also replicated the whole city of paris in their land. so, i think now you guys are evened out.
@klashagerstrand6632
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for bringing attention to this!
@danielintheantipodes6741
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the video!
@silesiaball9505
Жыл бұрын
Man, it looks marvelous Thank you KaT for showing us this beautiful style
@LT.KiraHertling1701
Жыл бұрын
I would very much like to see Germans building in Chinese and Japanese styles, and vice versa. These are cultures and styles that would be interesting to mix.
@pierren___
Жыл бұрын
Please more videos on projects that could have been in the world
@bhangrafan4480
9 ай бұрын
There is a story about British musician and film star George Formby that when he became very rich and successful he bought a large house and decided to have a "Chinese Room" made. He hired some local decorators to fully redecorate and furnish the room with "Chinoiserie'. It seems that the decorators had little knowledge of China or Chinese style, because the story goes that when a reporter visited and was shown around the house he found the room full of Hebrew writing.
@dreaminjosh
Жыл бұрын
“á la chinoise” would be more like “chinese-like”. “Chinoiserie” is a noun and would be closer to “chinesery” if we had such a word
@DingleberryProductions
Жыл бұрын
The combination of so many disparate architectural styles result in something that, at least to the modern eyes, is neither Chinese nor European
@e.1165
9 ай бұрын
Parts of Deoksugung, a late-Joseon palace in Seoul, were built in European style. It must have been quite striking in what was then a city of thatch-roofed wooden shacks and mud streets.
@DirMichaelDavid
Жыл бұрын
great video.
@miaouscleaumonocle
Жыл бұрын
The forefathers of the weebs
@longiusaescius2537
17 күн бұрын
Real
@monoken
Жыл бұрын
These buildings look like they were built in Sims 4 for some reason
@lucasphilippini620
Жыл бұрын
You’re my favorite channel on YT! Love your content. Please don’t stop uploading anytime soon! :)
@thislittlelightofmine8776
Жыл бұрын
That was an exceptional collection, fantastic work, thank you
@laurenconrad1799
Жыл бұрын
Could you add a list of sources for the information? It sounds fascinating, but I’m always nervous about digesting KZitem history videos if I don’t know where the person got the facts. 🙂 ❤
@i_barely_hee-know_her
Жыл бұрын
12:48 That painting of Mr Ferdinand is terrifying
@marikkelaszlo3355
Жыл бұрын
He looks like a mix of Mark Zuckerberg and Linguini from Ratatoullie lol
@dannsantos530
Жыл бұрын
Being a weeb taken to a whole new level during the 17th century.
@igoromelchenko3482
11 ай бұрын
Don't see anything bad in imagining or taking an inspiration from other cultures. It shall connect and enrich and adorn each culture.
@taylors5145
Жыл бұрын
I especially love the Chinoiserie garden follies built by the aristocracy during this time. Stunning and whimsical.
@ChristianJiang
Жыл бұрын
The Chinese did the same... Look up the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, China. The Emperor tried to copy Western architecture and the outcome was similarly ridiculous
@leongliyang6946
9 ай бұрын
once heard my grandparent said, "Westerner of the Europe love our Chinese decoration, is such exotic work of art".
@juanlu3958
Жыл бұрын
The ancient Chinese garden style is what the West should learn from. Not the fusion of these ugly monsters.
@peztopher7297
Жыл бұрын
At 12:16, I'm amused by the "Chinese" theatre, which includes dozens of Gothic windows.
@bobbybill4042
Жыл бұрын
I lived in Palermo. I never made it inside that house but went to the gardens.
@svenlima
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the informative video. However: This video suffers of the disease of many youtube videos: superfluous and distracting background music. It's tiring attending to the narration over the background music, masking the topic of the video and mostly adding nothing to the content. Narration or music is fine but one on top of the other is extremely annoying.
@hmhbanal
Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of Chinese architecture found in few structures in the Manila.
@spitalhelles3380
Жыл бұрын
Kew garden goes kinda hard ngl
@oivinf
Жыл бұрын
I recently learned that there used to be a winter palace in Beijing with European gardens and European-esque architecture. It was built around the late 1700s and said to be the pinnacle of Chinese architecture and garden design. Unfortunately it was destroyed - ironically by said Europeans as retaliation during the Opium Wars in 1860
@zy5992
Жыл бұрын
Would you add subtitles? It would be great
@st0will
Жыл бұрын
remember. if you truly want to learn the cultrue of east asisa. you should come here visit the association musem and library here.
@lolita19711
Жыл бұрын
4;50 i was near that house,you cant come near it bc the alarm will go off,bc its columns is gold plated
@joangordoneieio
Жыл бұрын
fascinating!
@Nesterou
Жыл бұрын
Interesting video, but I can't help finding this so incredibly ugly and of bad taste 😬
@L-mo
Жыл бұрын
The Royal Pavilion in Brighton, England, is often overlooked as a masterpiece of Chinoiserie because the outside is evocative of Mughal architecture.
@johncgibson4720
Жыл бұрын
You need to be very careful when copying foreign concepts. I asked a real Chinese friend about the thumbnail building, and she said it copied wrong and resulted in a "Ying" building, meaning cemetery architecture for the dead to live in. It will be safer to copy buildings from Imperial palaces that has the "Yang" code in it.
@ninjaydes
Жыл бұрын
You can really tell the difference in buildings constructed out of fascination of the culture vs fascination with what seems exotic... huge divide between tackiness and tastefulness.
@marikkelaszlo3355
Жыл бұрын
European and Chinese architecture mixed together is just **Chef's Kiss** I wish it could come back because they really do complement eachother well!!
@AmeliaMastervally
Жыл бұрын
Ooohhhh... No okay but I really like this style it's so cute and whimsical
@iart2838
Жыл бұрын
Chinese influence hardly mentioned in art history classes
@LukeCunningham
Жыл бұрын
Great video as always!
@SiqueScarface
Жыл бұрын
I wonder why Pillnitz Castle was not included. It predates most of the building by at least two decades.
@timbercladdingcn
Жыл бұрын
China once had a very splendid Western garden, the Old Summer Palace. Unfortunately, it was completely destroyed by the wrath of the British and French.
@buckodonnghaile4309
9 ай бұрын
What was their justification for the garden's destruction? I'm neither British nor French, just a fan of wonderful gardens.
@kingjoe3rd
Жыл бұрын
It's hard to even say what Chinese architecture really looked like because all we have for reference are some photographs and drawings. Aside from the Forbidden City, there are no old building really left, and the ones you see now that look old are actually modern reconstructions. In the 1960s, the Chinese Communist Party encouraged its people to literally take hammers and tools, and destroy all the old buildings of historical value. The Chinese government today is very embarrassed of this event, so it's hard to tell which places are original and which are replicas. It's something like 95% are new.
@IKEMENOsakaman
Жыл бұрын
Americans "OH NO! CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!!!!!"
@VegaTakeOver
Жыл бұрын
Rent free schizo in comment section "Americans "OH NO! CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!!!!!""
@rafaelpuelma4845
Жыл бұрын
this youtuber totally lack knowlagde in architacture, tehre was nothing chinese about the buildnings he used as example ... this video is BS
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