Panel Discussion: Luxury Home Design Trends - Multiple choices, multiple opportunities

As the design-conscious middle class in China has gained in prosperity, so has the demand for luxury property. But it’s not only demand that has proliferated; now there is a variety of design approaches, driven in some cases by owners’ preoccupations and enthusiams, in other cases by Sustainability, in other cases by a a growing desire to re-engage with the natural world. There is also the question of Chinese tradition, in craft and materials, balanced against a Modernism that comes both from China and the West. How do designers employ, mix and match these trends? A panel of distinguished practitioners discusses the ways forward.