Pure House Boutique Hotel Canvas Tote
Project overview
This canvas tote translates the architectural language of Pure House Boutique Hotel into a tactile and usable object. The restrained green palette, the balance between solid and void, and the rhythmic graphic derived from the character “山” reinterpret the hotel’s spatial logic and its quiet relationship with nature. At the same time, it is designed for everyday use, offering practical capacity and durability for guests while carrying an emotional layer that extends the hotel experience beyond the site, combining function with atmosphere.
Pure House Boutique Hotel is located at the foot of Cangshan, with the mountain behind and Erhai Lake in front, a setting that allows a full view of the lake and the ancient city . The architecture blends into the site with humility, merging gently with the surrounding landscape and creating a sense of calm, distance, and continuity with nature.
The narrative of 拾山房 is embedded into the tote itself. The name echoes 十三房, referring to the hotel’s thirteen boutique guest rooms, and this sense of intimacy is translated into the scale and clarity of the bag’s composition.
The graphic system draws from Chinese calligraphy, traditional landscape painting, and the ancient form of the character 山, which also informs the hotel’s logo. By transforming this character into a repeatable pattern and pairing it with expressive brush strokes, the design connects cultural memory with contemporary clarity. Similar to the architecture’s narrative spaces integrated with the site, the tote becomes a continuation of that narrative, distilling landscape, culture, and stillness into an object that can be carried and used in daily life.
Specifications
Materials | Cotton Canvas Fabric |
Date | 2026 |
Client | Pure House Boutique Hotel |
This series reimagines the architectural language of Pure House Boutique Hotel as a portable object. The canvas tote translates spatial principles into a tactile form, where a restrained green palette, balanced compositions, and rhythmic graphics extend the atmosphere of the building into everyday life.
Derived from the character “山”, the graphic system draws from calligraphy and traditional landscape painting, transforming a cultural symbol into a repeatable structure. Brush-like gestures and modular patterns echo the hotel’s relationship with the surrounding terrain, where architecture dissolves into nature rather than asserting itself against it.
Situated between Cangshan and Erhai Lake, Pure House is defined by its quiet integration with the landscape. This sensibility is carried into the object, where scale, material, and proportion reflect an intimate and grounded spatial experience. The tote becomes not only functional, but also atmospheric, holding a sense of place beyond the site itself.
Across interior and exterior settings, the object moves between body, architecture, and landscape. It is less a product than a fragment of space that can be carried, extending the narrative of the hotel into daily life.