239. Pei Sing Restaurant: Tavern Smoking Pipe
atelier ying, nyc.
A great number of Hong Kong B&W comedies released by Cathay films in the 1960's live on in our collective memories.
The ambience of Asian nightclubs, old-styled restaurants and coffee shops certainly influence my nostalgic aesthetic.This is so special to me personally that I thought that my requirement for any design here must be very extreme.
Delving into the history of European tavern clay pipes concretized this design for two fictitious restaurants from the 1962 film, "The Greatest Wedding on Earth" with the comedic actor Leung Sing-Bo. This design is for a long sculpted smoking pipe of the street with two restaurants. Multiple features are built in which come from scenes in the film.
The street corner, with the two restaurants, houses the pipe bowl with the building gap as a natural heat sink. The rear of the Pei Sing Restaurant (on the right) is a container for an antique cake of Pu-erh tea of the era that can be commemoratively consumed. Three Victorian Stanhope viewers (Microphotography) are in the elaborate pipe shank that illustrate memorable courtship scenes from the film, which take place in the elegant Emerald Nightclub.
As with most of these old HK comedies, the boss always smokes cigars and the tobacco blend will contain a good amount of cigar leaf. Detailing in the carved Meerschaum will show ferns, China pots, plastic flowers, vintage ads and restaurant signage. Compartments in the rear of the Nan Shing restaurant hold tiny amounts of preserved fruit for a Chinese tea ceremony. As a typical Pu-erh tea, the leaves must be rinsed once before brewing to wash away impurities of fermentation but any tobacco smell in the cake will bring back a sense of the past.
A pipe tamper carved as a pot of ivy from briar seconds matches the pipe stem. A traditional hard case, with a velvet green interior, houses this delicate Meerschaum.
Design, concepts, text and drawing are copyright 2014 by David Lo.
239. Pei Sing Restaurant: Tavern Smoking Pipe
atelier ying, nyc.
A great number of Hong Kong B&W comedies released by Cathay films in the 1960's live on in our collective memories.
The ambience of Asian nightclubs, old-styled restaurants and coffee shops certainly influence my nostalgic aesthetic.This is so special to me personally that I thought that my requirement for any design here must be very extreme.
Delving into the history of European tavern clay pipes concretized this design for two fictitious restaurants from the 1962 film, "The Greatest Wedding on Earth" with the comedic actor Leung Sing-Bo. This design is for a long sculpted smoking pipe of the street with two restaurants. Multiple features are built in which come from scenes in the film.
The street corner, with the two restaurants, houses the pipe bowl with the building gap as a natural heat sink. The rear of the Pei Sing Restaurant (on the right) is a container for an antique cake of Pu-erh tea of the era that can be commemoratively consumed. Three Victorian Stanhope viewers (Microphotography) are in the elaborate pipe shank that illustrate memorable courtship scenes from the film, which take place in the elegant Emerald Nightclub.
As with most of these old HK comedies, the boss always smokes cigars and the tobacco blend will contain a good amount of cigar leaf. Detailing in the carved Meerschaum will show ferns, China pots, plastic flowers, vintage ads and restaurant signage. Compartments in the rear of the Nan Shing restaurant hold tiny amounts of preserved fruit for a Chinese tea ceremony. As a typical Pu-erh tea, the leaves must be rinsed once before brewing to wash away impurities of fermentation but any tobacco smell in the cake will bring back a sense of the past.
A pipe tamper carved as a pot of ivy from briar seconds matches the pipe stem. A traditional hard case, with a velvet green interior, houses this delicate Meerschaum.
Design, concepts, text and drawing are copyright 2014 by David Lo.