Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion
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Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion is located at 14 Leith Street, 10200 George Town, Penang, Malaysia. The mansion's indigo-blue outer wall is a very distinct building in the area.
The mansion built by Cheong Fatt Tze at the end of 19th Century has 38 rooms, 5 granite-paved courtyards, 7 staircases & 220 vernacular timber louvre windows. Other features of the house include Gothic louvered windows, Chinese cut & paste porcelain work, Stoke-on-Trent floor tiles, Scottish cast iron works and Art Nouveau stained glass. Many aspects of the mansion are built around the priciples of Feng Shui.
The mansion is currently used as a hotel-cum-museum as part of a restoration project.
A scene of the French movie "Indochine" starring Catherine Deneueve was filmed in this building.
[edit] Awards
- 1995 Malaysian National Architectural Award For Conservation
- 2000 UNESCO 'Most Excellent' Heritage Conservation Award
- 'Best Tourist Attraction 2003' Merit Award - Malaysian Misistry of Culture, Arts & Tourism
- ASEANTA 2004 Excellence Award; ASEAN Cultural Preservation Effort
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