After the epidemic, the Beijing couple moved to the Sixth Ring Road to create a 500 square meters of Ya Zhai

When the epidemic in 2020 came,

Lao Bai and Fangyuan decided to close the store in the hutong,

Retired the house in the city center,

Move to a two -story building outside the Sixth Ring Road in Beijing.

In July 2022, a visit,

They have lived here for two or three years,

This family is filled with the utensils they like,

Show a rich and relaxed texture.

There are forests near the home, across a road is the Chaobai River,

Daughter rice grains are born here,

Grew up in a natural environment.

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▲ Living room

▲ There is a road at home is the Chaobai River

The two are college classmates, learning arts and crafts,

When I was a student, I was fascinated by traveling everywhere to collect old objects.

When I graduated in 2013,

They opened a small and well -known utensil shop "rustic" in Beijing,

I often sell some others to look tattered,

But I feel particularly beautiful.

▲ The "rustic ancient props" changed by the garage

Now, they have transformed the garage of the home into a new one

"Earthy Propers" store.

"Everyone must take responsibility,

Constantly say what you like loudly,

And walk out of a way "

——This is the attitude they believe in,

In today's "burnout society", it is even more precious.

Written: Ni Yan

Responsible editor: Chen Ziwen

"Not long after the epidemic began in 2020, I found that I was pregnant, and the pressure on the rent in the city was particularly strong." Fangyuan grilled cakes for his daughter rice grains and chatted with us. After she moved to the suburbs, the pace of life slowed down significantly.

At that time, she and her husband Lao Bai decisively closed the shop in Wudao Camp Hutong, retreated the house rented in the urban area, moved back to the home outside the Sixth Ring Road, and transformed her garage into a utensil shop.

The appearance of the home is a small building on the second floor, and the traces of American home improvement cannot be seen inside.

▲ Living room

Ancient road props, middle -aged furniture, contemporary art, various small devices picked up by waste stations, they live in a room without violation of the same room, everything is collected a little bit.

The so -called "ancient props", unlike traditional antiques, tend to choose utensils with their own eyes, even more in expressing themselves.

As soon as you push the house, you can see the big crickets of Zibo kiln in the Yuan Dynasty. A long crack was nail on a long crack. It was repaired by the Qing Dynasty. After the wind and sun, the iron nails and white porcelain became special.

There is no TV in the living room. There is a cloth tiger hanging on the position of the TV wall. In fact, it is a baggage in the Qing Dynasty, because this year is the year of the tiger, and it will be mounted and hanging on the New Year.

Lao Bai likes to listen to music. He collects audio in the 1960s and 70s, because the inner walls are all paper. Unlike the current audio inner wall, plastic will be used. "".

▲ Li Chao's 16th -century white porcelain flat pot (left) Li Chao 17th century white porcelain bottle (right)

▲ In the 18th century Li Chaobai Porcelain Moon Jet and 箪笥

In the living room, there are some Li Chao (cabinets) and porcelain in the living room. The Goryeo dynasty before the Li Chao, the utensils were still influenced by the Song Dynasty. It was clearly seen that it was a vein with China, but in the Li Chao, the feeling of North Korea's nation was formed. If you watch one or two pieces, you need to touch the porcelain. After watching a lot, you will touch it deeply. "

By learning Li Chao's utensils, Lao Bai and Fangyuan no longer value the type of utensils, but look inward. "At that time, the craftsmen were inherited from generation to generation and could not choose other professions. Some craftsmen had a rich inner world, but he had never seen this world. He could only see a craft every day to watch the inside. The accumulation, do not think about it when doing it. The utensils are fused with him. This utensil is him, so such utensils will fascinate you and communicate with you. "

From this perspective, they selected Chinese utensils and found the charm of the artifacts such as the Song Dynasty (bold and simple folk style) and Xiajiadian Gaogu Tao.

Because of the similar temperament, in the living room on the first floor, Li Chao's cabinet, Italian iron coffee table, Chinese old stool, Southeast Asia's wooden tiles ... all put together.

"I like the old and new matching on the tableware. It is very simple food. It is installed in good -looking utensils and there is appetite." Every time I collect the utensils, Fangyuan can see if I can put it on it first. Your own table.

In the 18th century, the large white porcelain bowl of white porcelain was installed with salads. After so long, the milk white glaze was still so smooth. People who wanted to use this big bowl were very careful to care for it.

When fried peppers or darkened dishes, Fangyuan likes to be installed on the silver glaze Dutch plate of Ando Yaxin. The silver plate just bought a brighter color. After a long time, it starts to oxidize and turn black. There is a change in time changes. sense.

When eating rice or drinking soup, the paint bowl made of Akagi Mingson has good thermal insulation and very light. "Every time you hold it in your hand, you send it to your mouth, like a feeling of being cared for." This is when Akagi Michima came to the house as a guest, he was very happy to drink. He said that the old Bai family had many works of contemporary Japanese duties. Why didn't he have his paint bowl? After returning, he sent two.

▲ The wind chimes hanging by friends in the tea room are the shapes of Lao Bai, Fangyuan, and Rice Grace

▲ According to the silver pot made of traditional aluminum pots in China, some treatment was made to speed up its oxidation speed

The tea room is a space that Fangyuan can be alone. She has never found a favorite silver pot, either too Japanese or too fancy. Later, Lao Bai received a small Chinese -style small aluminum pot. The temperament was particularly good. The master gave Fangyuan a silver pot according to that shape. ▲ study room

The study room is the longest time for the old -fashioned time, and he puts his favorite objects. Broken stone and black paint desktop with 2 meters high on the beach hangs like an abstract painting. It is not the same every year, because the cracks of large paint will increase; when walking, you can bring various small wild flowers back and put them into the utensils in the utensils. The company with flowers feels more quiet.

▲ Tang Xing Kiln wine device looks like the current coffee cup

▲ In the 17th century, the Dutch Dailef special -glazed ceramic plate, although it is European porcelain, has the East feeling

"When we choose the utensils, we will consider whether it can enter our current life. I hope that the old utensils will exude a modern and fresh sense."

The daughter's rice grains sometimes couldn't stay in the house, and Lao Bai built a glass room on the empty field in the backyard. The windows were opened in summer. It was very ventilated. The rice grains could play in it for a long time.

▲ Behind the glass house is the small vegetable garden in the home

"Choose the suburbs, because I want to be born, give her a better growth environment." Next to the home is the countryside, there is a morning market every morning, you can buy very fresh vegetables. A road across a road is the Chaobai River with the natural sense of wildness. The family often goes to the river to walk and camped. The rice grains like the rocks of the riverbirds. You can watch the ants move for a long time.

▲ Bending by the Chaobai River

I used to live in the city before, and my life is mainly work. I need to deal with trivial things that are specially opened every day. I moved to the countryside. The store also became an appointment system. Life was mainly to accompany the children.

▲ The basement space, the wall is a lacquer workbench and a shade house

Most space for the basement of the home is used for storage, and an important area is the workbench of Lao Bai and Fangyuan. No matter how many times they move their homes, they must leave a space for lacquer, and make the shadow house where the lacquer ware placed.

Lao Bai and Fangyuan are classmates of the Department of Arts and Crafts of Beijing University of Technology. They mainly cultivate the direction of lacquer art. They have a certain obsession in the past few years and want to be painters.

▲ In 2014-15, Lao Bai was in a 12㎡ small studio in the hutong. Later, the hut was demolished, which completely dispelled the determination of persistence.

▲ Bai Yanze (Lao Bai) lacquerware works

At that time, Fangyuan took into account the "rustic" store. Lao Bai was painted in the small studio, but later found that it took a lot of time. The state lasted for several years.

Because they especially liked traveling in college, they accepted a lot of old objects and found that they were selling well in the store. The two felt that they were more handy in collecting Dongxi.

For Lao Bai, "Every time I meet thousands of utensils, I can only find one or two of my favorite. I will find that when I find my favorite utensils, I will be satisfied with the content brought by a work. Yes, it will make you feel that blood is hot. "

▲ Song Ringzhou kiln white glaze bowl

For example, a white glaze bowl in the Song Dynasty Kiln Kiln, "It was given to me in an uncle who sold me in the Handan Antique City. Although I chose a few good utensils that day, it was this kiln that made me accelerate. The fragmentation of the white glazed bowl of the cracked rings of the site. "

Slowly, they spent less time on painting, and they operated the utensil shop more carefully. In 2018, the name of the store was added with the word "ancient props".

The word "ancient props" comes from Japan, referring to the old utensils that have been used in daily life and labor.

In Tokyo in 1973, Sakada and Shi Liten made their own shop "Ancient Tao Sakada". Value attitude.

▲ Mr. Sakada and Shishi, the Daerf Panpan of his collection, the legendary "Ancient Tao Sakada" shop (Figure Yuanyuan Network)

At that time, as long as the Japanese were facing a little away from daily life such as fine arts and antiques, it seemed to take out the usual ruler, and blindly referred to the art history of Westerners or relying on the aesthetic consciousness of the ancient Japanese tea people. And Bantian and Shishi used free eyes and soft hearts to choose beautiful things from ordinary crafts. With him, as long as it is reasonable, daily necessities can also look beautiful.

Their Japanese cultural figures, like Murakami Haruki and Hirose Ichiro, are not like the pace of "public" as they have always been, but weave the story of "private" in the corner of society.

Today Bantian and Shishi are an important figure in the history of modern Japanese culture. His aesthetic has affected many handicrafts. For the first time, Ando Yaxin saw the Dutch Dalph Panpan (the mainstream of Delff porcelain is Blue and flowers, white plates are not valued by antique merchants), inspired, and began their new creative career ... Now Japan has more and more young people to open such a shop. In China in China in the past two years, the ancient road has gradually emerged.

▲ Before the epidemic, a shop in the Wudao Camp Hutong, Beijing

When Lao Bai and Fangyuan opened the store, they often sold something that others seemed to be broken but felt particularly beautiful.

In 2018, Anti Yaosin came to Beijing to hold the exhibition and visited the "Rusty Ancient Props". It was said that their shop was Beijing's "Ancient Taoist Sakada". Lao Bai and Fangyuan were particularly excited. ▲ Mr. Bantian and Shishi's pottery pot

When Lao Bai and Fangyuan went to visit Mr. Bantian's legendary shop "Ancient Road Sakada", he did not open the door for the first three times, and finally opened the door for the fourth time. Hug home, "There are several traces of burning in the whole body, which is just right."

"For the first time I visited my spiritual idol, I still chose an ancient props there. It is of great significance for yourself. After returning to Beijing, you will enjoy this pottery at every time you return. Play the appearance of paper toys in your hand ".

Sakada Kazuki said, "I think everyone must take responsibility and constantly say what they like, which is also tantamount to what kind of way they want to go."

Foreign garages are often changed to small offices or small shops. Lao Bai said to Fangyuan that many masters started their home from the garage and came out a little bit.

After moving to home outside the Sixth Ring Road, they renovated the garage and hung the "rustic ancient props" sign.

Because of the relationship between the utensils and the space, they moved for two or three years. Every two months, the two had to move once and change the furnishings.

In the summer, the glass utensils around the world are very cool.

The celadon in the Goryeo period, the ancient Roman pot, the pottery can during the Xiajiadian period, and the 17th -century glassware of France. Although it came from different national eras, it was completely unwilling to put together.

Lao Bai said, "If you look at these in the store, you feel that the utensils I have taken back have similar traits. Maybe people who may be similar to me. If they can meet me, they will be a good friend. "".

▲ Daerph white porcelain

▲ Repair room

Lao Bai changed the small debris of the garage to a repair room. Many of the retracted utensils have been repaired, but the materials used are not good, and even toxic can not be exposed to food. Methods of utensils to repair, such as gold, large paint, or nails.

▲ Qing · White Porcelain Bowl

If you find that the broken state is pretty good, you will not move it. There is a broken beauty in it.

In the repair room, Lao Bai was sitting on the small chair with a job, and he wanted to buy at a high price, but Lao Bai was reluctant. This was once he visited the antique shop. After a lap, he didn't see anything, but he was attracted by the chair where the owner's uncle sat. Pure iron, I still like to sit on it for decades.

Lao Bai said that this chair was good. The owner was very happy to meet the confidant and sold it to him at a particularly cheap price.

▲ Garage Ancient Road props shop

Sometimes Lao Bai was unique because of a certain piece of utensils and marked a higher price. He still thought, "I don't want to sell anyway", and then some guests really bought it. That guests often become good friends in the end.

"The most interesting thing to open a store is because the same strange thoughts, to make a very sincere friend, I think this is the most rare."

▲ "Li Chao's First See" exhibition catalog and scene

Lao Bai and Fangyuan have always had the habit of running an exhibition, "White Magnetic Praise", "Li Chao's First See", "Bone Dong Flower", "Made By Time", "Self -sufficient Miscellaneous Ware" ... to sort out ideas through this form.

In the country, Li Chao's comprehensive physical exhibition has not been held before. The combination of wood, copper, and porcelain has almost restored the state of Li Chao at that time. "In the process of collecting and sorting, we constantly summarize what kind of antiques are more in line with modern life. Choosing antiques suitable for ourselves, that is, the exercise of eyesight, and the cultivation of mental strength."

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Lao Bai just retracted a large jar from the countryside and washed it for a month. When I bought it, it was all black mud. After cleaning, the peeled glaze was exposed. Fangyuan felt very beautiful.

"I think my home must have a natural growth feeling. It is fused into such a state. It cannot be dominated by existing values ​​and popular trends. , I can't feel tired. "

Some pictures photography: Bai Yanze (Lao Bai)

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