Thirty odd years so ago I asked a learned friend of mine from mainland China with regard to a an appropriate logo for a visible identity to the type of product and service that we provide without requirements to formal copyrights and related rigmaroles whereupon he suggested one paper cutting that is commonly used by the peasants in China as direct ornaments for windows and bookmarks. This is supposedly popular in Huiming Prefecture Shandong Province and used almost everywhere by the agrarian working class. There are flower-in-flower, theme-in-theme and subtlety-in-brevity patterns. Deftness is highlighted in the naivety. The themes of Douxiang paper-cutting range from dramatic tales, historical legends, folklores to propitious patterns flowers and herbs.Such peasant revolutionary art is richly reflected in window ornament and embroidery pattern. Students and strident scholars kept them for fancy bookmarks. Affluent class in decorative snuff box and jewelry cases. It is directly cut on papers without a draft pattern by the peasants themselves and widely stocked in antique shops in Asia.
Thanks to the wise decision of my learned scholar. The last I heard of him was that he is now a lecturer at one of New York's institution.The teahouse logo has been in use since 1978This old picture must have been taken in the early part of 1990 at the end of my first lap of running a restaurant marathon. Menus were then restricted to the Malaysian and the Chinese only it was then more popularly known to be a Malaysian Teahouse. The 'flower-girl' logo is clearly imprinted on the door.
The latest addition to a collection of 'flower-girl's at Blackman's Bay 2006. This is a sample of Dom's Teahouse restaurant colour brochure which is exactly a year old now. In fact it was a high school student graphic showpiece which he adopted. With the advent of PC and in-house desktop publishing software nowadays who needs outside commercial printers. But I must admit at times for bulk volume work we still do require their service. You will also find the flower girl logo imprinted on our dining and takeaway menus.
This is the front entrance to the old Salamanca Teahouse Restaurant during the years 1996-2004. Once again you can see that the teahouse tradition has been carried forward by the 'flower-girl' emblem.
The same address except that you can see both the upstair and the downstairs property which all belongs to the same title.
Lastly the 'atrium' but not the least since I have omitted out The Teahouse 'main dining room' which will be uploaded in a more narrative separate post in the near future. This so called terrace section forms the atrium of our yesteryear's restaurant. Highlighted above it is an illuminated flower-girl' signboard.
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