Autumn and Winter Check-in Challenge
Yongfu Club is a European-style building, which was once the official residence of Kuang Ankun, a famous doctor of Ruijin Hospital, and successively served as the consulate of the Soviet Union, Germany, the United Kingdom and other countries. For 21 years after 1980, it became the British Consulate. In 2001, the building was converted into a private clubhouse.
The current owner, Mr. Wang Xingzheng, is the first generation of Chinese designers and antiques collectors in China.
Since its opening in 2004, Yongfoo Club has had a multi-cultural identity: a Michelin restaurant, an antique museum and a cultural living room, and it is the epitome of the rise of Shanghainese culture.
The building is imbued with the spirit of Western creativity and does not stick to architectural elements commonly used elsewhere. It allows people to revel in the classical architectural art while discovering something different from time to time.
The welcome road is neither wide nor narrow, and the roads are lush on both sides. The Western-style candlesticks with carved iron are lined with candles, as if they were a sonata before a feast. The red and yellow curtains are decorated between the scattered pines and cypresses on the side of the wall, showing the domineering and ostentatious of the ancient Chinese princely family.
The main building is a typical Victorian-style three-storey bungalow, which has been transformed into a high-end Chinese restaurant with dining and leisure functions.
The lobby on the first floor is full of strong Western-style style. Not only did the designers maintain the Victorian interior well, but they also paid great attention to details such as colours, materials, shapes and textures to enrich these decorative languages.
Whether it is the towering baroque columns, the round chandeliers hanging from the roof, and the tablecloths and silver cutlery on the table, they can all be called "elegant". Walking up the marble steps, the visual senses are another effect.
In fact, the lobby on the second floor is functionally identical to the first floor, but superior in terms of spatial transformation, use of light and nature. The matching interior displays and furnishings present a different style, and the dining table, tablecloth and table top furnishings feel light in shape and materials, less solemn and more relaxed.