Comments on: [唯美] Palais de Fortune, the absolutely beautiful and the conceptualization of time in China

By: Wabisabi

Wabisabi — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 08:44:34 +0000

Christophe:

Noted with thanks.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:00:45 +0000

I’m french and FionaJude is right, the meaning in French is very funny ! So much money, and not a yuan to buy a dictionnary !

Your article on beauty make me think about a poetic joke :
At the top of a montain, a rich father tells his son “look at this beautifull landscape, one day, it will be yours”
On the same mountain, a poor father tells his son, “look at this beautifull landscape”.

Beauty is not a fact, beauty is not an object, beauty is a moment, a place and a desire, beauty is an experience.

By: Wabisabi

Wabisabi — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:51:02 +0000

Fionajude:

Thank you very much for your input. I have no insider scope on this project and read the same internet sources as everyone else, but I would imagine that it was their marketing people who came up with this name when they wanted to translate the Chinese original name “cai fu gong guan” into something that sounds grand.

By: Fionajude

Fionajude — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:13:00 +0000

The name of the project is a misunderstanding of the french expression : “Palais de fortune”, palace of fortune (?).
As if it looks more rich, luxuous, to be named in French, even if the architecture seems more english like.
French wouldn’t tell it that way, a house of fortune doesn’t mean a magnificent place but somewhere unsuitable for living, because insanitary, somewhere like in a shantytown, you live in because you don’t have choice.
I don’t think it was the architech idea! it’s not the fisrt time i notice that french words are used because it sounds good but in a word meaning.