Stefan Irvine, ’Tung Shing Lei Road’, Yuen Long 2015
Stefan Irvine, ’Tung Shing Lei Road’, Yuen Long 2015
Stefan Irvine - The Last Tong Lau
’Tung Shing Lei Road’, Yuen Long
Photographs taken in 2015, digital collage completed in 2015
Archival Pigment Print
Prints are signed by artist on print below the image.
Small: Image size about H18 x 122 cm
HK$ 8,000 + Box-frame or Facemount HK$ 2,500
Edition of 18 + 2APs
Medium: Image size about H25 x 173 cm
HK$ 12,000 + Box-frame or Facemount HK$ 4,000
Limited edition of 18 + 2 APs
Large: Image size about H36 x 244 cm
HK$ 24,000 + Box-frame or Facemount HK$ 6,000
Limited edition of 8 + 2 APs
Above is image size only, print size will include 6 cm bleed size all around (add 12 cm) and frame is another 2 cm all around (add 4 cm)
Above framing options are Baryta print with black or white box-frame with acrylic front allowing 5 cm white bleed / metallic pearl print with acrylic facemount with no white bleed. For alternative framing options please contact us.
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Tung Shing Lei Road, Yuen Long | 東成里路，元朗
This row of 1930’s village houses, known collectively as “Lau’s House”, was built by a businessman named Lau Wai To from Taishan City in Guangdong province. Lau started a fish-farming business in the Yuen Long area of Hong Kong, and between 1926 and 1935, he built these four houses and one ancestral hall for his eight sons and their families. Constructed in the architectural style of Lau’s home-village in Taishan, each house is split into two halves, with a courtyard separating each section. Although some of these homes have now been abandoned, most of them are still occupied by families today.
這排建於1930年代的村屋，統稱為「劉氏大屋」，由廣東省台山藉一位名叫劉維疇的商人建造。劉先生在香港元朗地區開展農地及魚塘業務，並於1926年至1935年間為他的八個兒子及其家人建造了這四座房屋和一座祠堂。每棟房屋均以劉氏於台山家鄉的建築風格建造，以青磚及花崗石建成，分兩層高及獨立兩側，每兩戶一棟配合中庭天井居住。雖然當中一些房屋現已被廢棄，但其中大部分仍然被使用中。
