This video goes into the incredible Shanghai Design Center to interview the center's CEO and several leading European design houses to get their take on how well traditional Chinese furniture goes with contemporary European designs. Emphasis is placed on the "architecture" of furniture being important, stressing that good lines in furniture of all types make for good companions when decorating the same room. It's possible to take a local vernacular style and wed it with clean, shapely contemporary furnishings to create a rich effect.