Ch'en Chien-yuan, a special assistant who worked on the renovation, explains that the design as a whole is fully modern in approach while the Chinese feel comes out only by carefully savoring the details.
參與此次與加拿大設計師溝通改裝內容的中興百貨台北店特別助理陳健元解釋，這次的設計整體上看來是現代感十足，要從細部設計上仔細品味，才能體會中國的感覺。