Designs And Designers

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Chuan Cuisine Lounge

Sunday, 5 January 2025

Lang

Lang is a restaurant and lounge in Shenzhen, China, serving Sichuan cuisine during the day and drinks at night. The interior is arranged as a black box divided into themed areas named after tequila sunrise, black cherry, blue margarita and sunset martini, each with its own colours and character. Chinese references such as Sichuan opera and the panda are combined with western materials. In the entrance corridor, layered red curtains of pure copper, electroplated red, descend from the ceiling. A red water bar is made of pure copper and corrugated acrylic.

Carrie Ho

Retail

Saturday, 4 January 2025

K11 Art Mall

K11 Art Mall is a retail interior design in Wuhan, China. The project converts a twenty-year-old department store into an art mall of four podium levels and a total area of 34,000 square meters. Verticality guides the retail planning, and vertical landmarks together with floor-specific landmarks encourage visitors to move upward and explore. An external bridge links the mall to an adjacent mall. A steel structure adds new layers inside the existing concrete building, while fiberglass reinforced gypsum and laminated glass shape the colorful spaces.

Fernando Correa

Lamp

Friday, 3 January 2025

Be Water

Be Water is a linear, modular and recessed kinetic LED lamp for decorative wall washing. The lamp is installed inside a light cove or behind furniture, so only the moving light is visible. Light is refracted through a handmade glass cylinder that rotates on its axis and projects fluctuating flares onto the wall. The effect recalls sunlight reflected on the surface of moving water. One motor can drive from one to six modules. Optional filters create the colour variants Be Fire, Be Air and Be Earth. Aluminium, borosilicate glass and plexiglass are used, and each piece is made in Italy.

João Teixeira

Desk

Thursday, 2 January 2025

Shelter

Shelter is a wooden desk designed for home office use. The desk supports productivity through better organization, with easy access to storage and hidden cable management that guides cables from a rear opening to the front drawers. Rounded corner drawers give the desk a distinct appearance, and all elements are aligned to form one continuous shape. The desk is made mainly of natural wood, with two metal hinges and a brass finish at the back. Production combines traditional techniques with CNC machining. The desk measures 1480 by 800 by 760 millimeters.

Chen Kuan-Cheng

Weaving Armchair

Wednesday, 1 January 2025

Lattice Chair

The word “lattice” means lines intertwined with, and intersecting, each other horizontally and vertically.Especially use Taiwan's high-quality bamboo with excellent toughness,combines bamboo craft into woodcraft via weaving bamboos and bent woods together. By preserving and integrating the flexibility of bamboos and the firmness of wood, so weight of the chair is only 4 kg, but it can withstand more than 120 kg, the lighter weight allows the elderly and children to move around more easily. Single-sided armrest design allows users to sit in a variety of ways, more free and flexible.

Liu Jinrui

Kindergarten

Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Woodland

Wandering in the Woods is a kindergarten interior designed for children aged two to six. The original building had limited space and relied heavily on artificial light. For reasons of structural stability and cost, the design keeps the entire structure and inserts an atrium that runs vertically through three stories, so all classrooms receive natural light from both sides. Columns become trees and beams become bridges. Continuous stairs and slides spiral around the columns and connect the spaces. Tree houses offer quiet areas for reading and handwork.