Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion
Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion was the favourite home of Cheong Fatt Tze (1840-1916), a rags to riches Hakka entrepreneur who become a powerful Nanyang industrialist, a Ching dynasty consul-general representing the Overseas Chinese and a first class mandarin.
An excerpt of the architectural aspect of the mansion from its website.
The Mansion, dazzling in its original indigo-blue, incorporates 38 rooms, 5 granite-paved courtyards, 7 staircases and 220 windows. Master craftsmen were imported from China, in the 1880’s and again in the restoration in the 1990s. The paradigm Chinese Courtyard House has been embellished with Chinese timber carvings and porcelain cut & paste decorative shard works as well as Gothic louvred windows, art nouveau stained glass panels, Stoke-on-Trent floor tiles and Scottish cast iron works. It is an edifice of impressive delicacy, awesome in its “feng shui” subtleties and is an extraordinary tribute to the construction and design skills of the past.
The inner city mansion was acquired in 1990 in an extremely dilapidated state. A Grade One restoration has been carried out and has culminated in the project being judged the winner in the UNESCO Heritage 2000 Awards.
The Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion offers owner-hosted home-stay and long-term residential stays in 16 uniquely themed bedroom apartments. These vary in size from the Scholar’s Suite to the Straits Suite and others of equally exotic disposition.
A standard deluxe room cost RM 250 per night,inclusive of breakfast, air-conditioned, augmented with ceiling fans, ensuite bathroom, tea & coffee facilities within, personal valet.The rates are available here.
A fully conducted tours are available from 11am - 3pm.Ticket is priced at RM10 per person.
For reservation,please call this number : 04-262 0006
The address : 14, Leith Street, 10200 Penang, Malaysia.
Pictures courtesy of petertan.com
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