Taiwanese interior designer Kuan Chun,Cheng of Homework is a collector. Drawn to patinated and soulful old things, he’s made it a practice of filling his interiors with found objects gathered locally and in his travels.
Thanks to the spillover, his practice runs a sideline vintage business online and out of the firm’s Taipei workspace. Still more favorite pieces have made their way into the nearby Homework photo studio, a space in a 1967 apartment building that Kuan Chun and his team fell in love with a few years ago thanks to its oblique shape and window wall. In need of a reason to rent it, they came up with the idea of making it a photo studio for hire. The concept has been a success: examine the backdrop of fashion and music shoots out of Taipei and you just might recognize a certain taxidermy duck and claw-footed bathtub.
Photography courtesy of Homework, (@homework172) .
![\2\20;the first time i walked into this slanted apartment, the large win 17](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/homework-photo-studio-taipei-city-taiwan-1-733x464.jpg)
![a sawhorse desk with a leafy view out the original metal framed windows. the ta 18](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/homework-photo-studio-desk-taipei-city-taiwan-1-733x489.jpg)
![the victorian kettle stove is an english antique. \2\20;it\2\17;s 19](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/victorian-kettle-stove-homework-photo-studio-taipei-city-taiwan-2-733x1098.jpg)
![objects for sale in the homework shop are shot here—but the manual typew 20](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/vintage-typewriter-homework-photo-studio-taipei-city-taiwan-6-733x489.jpg)
![the painted paneling is another homework addition. 21](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/homework-photo-studio-taipei-city-taiwan-2-733x481.jpg)
![wes anderson might have been here. a similar \1980s, made in taiwan bentwood ca 22](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/homework-photo-studio-taipei-city-taiwan-3-733x489.jpg)
![a european campaign bed serves as a daybed. 23](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/homework-photo-studio-taipei-city-taiwan-7-733x503.jpg)
![a game of vintage monopoly in dutch, anyone? 24](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/vintage-dutch-monopoly-game-homework-photo-studio-taipei-city-5-733x488.jpg)
![homework\2\17;s founder, kuan chun, sits by the entry on a row of wooden 25](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/homework-designer-kuan-chuncheng-733x489.jpg)
![the studio lacks a kitchen but has a romantic bathroom. the french claw footed 26](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/clawfoot-tub-homework-photo-studio-taipei-taiwan-2-733x1098.jpg)
![vintage lockers and work clothes for crews to make themselves at home. 27](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/homework-photo-studio-entry-taipei-taiwan-1-733x489.jpg)
![homework also cleaned up and accessorized the building\2\17;s shared roo 28](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/homework-photo-studio-taipei-city-taiwan-9-733x445.jpg)
![the homework team dubbed the space the oblique room. \2\20;at the time, 29](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/homework-photo-studio-taipei-taiwan-floorplan.jpg)
Another favorite example of a Homework design: A Taipei Tea House Built from “Sentimental Objects”
For more inspiration, browse our Antiques & Vintage archive, including:
- The Table as a Space Where All are Welcome: Ajiri Akiri on Design
- Kitchen of the Week: An Artful Conversion of a Garage in Bath, England
- Shopper’s Diary: A Poet-Collector Opens Pidgin in Upstate New York
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