Designs And Designers

Designs And Designers

Designs And Designers featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Kaisen Viking Iroha

Kaisen Viking Iroha is a high capacity buffet restaurant that redefines dining as a spatial and urban experience. A centrally positioned buffet counter organizes circulation into a continuous loop, reducing congestion while enhancing clarity. The design integrates panoramic views of Tokyo Dome City as an active component of the interior, transforming the city into a dynamic backdrop. Natural stone and end-grain wood introduce durability and material depth. The project elevates buffet dining into an immersive spatial system.

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Echo Oriental

Echo Oriental is a design reinterprets traditional Chinese cosmology through a contemporary architectural lens. A central double height sand table area serves as the heart of the project, positioned beneath a celestial stretch ceiling that symbolizes the sky over a square floor plan. A signature golden vaulted ceiling with leaf embossing adds tactile richness, while a palette of green marble and warm wood facilitates a sensory dialogue. The spatial choreography utilizes compression and release to guide visitors through a progressive ritual of thresholds.

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Takumi

Takumi is a jewelry cabinet that combines Japanese craft principles with contemporary furniture construction. The cabinet has fifteen drawers with chamfered edges and a concealed sliding system that works without lateral panels, creating a floating drawer effect. The interior is lined with natural leather and fitted with removable suede dividers for flexible organization. The brass handle is cast by the lost-wax method using reclaimed offcuts. The design turns the storage of personal jewelry into a calm and attentive routine.

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Tokyo

Tokyo is a lounge chair made of solid Brazilian sucupira hardwood. The frame is fully exposed, showing the joinery and the shaped wooden parts. The arms and back supports are turned on a lathe under manual control, with concave detailing at the ends. A natural leather inlay is recessed into each armrest and finished with stitching. The seat and back cushions combine layered polyurethane foam and feather filling, upholstered in brown linen. Surfaces are hand sanded and finished with a matte varnish. The design applies Japanese woodworking principles to a Brazilian material.

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House of Bohem

House of Bohem Beach Club is a 2.000 sqm beachfront venue on Alanya's Cleopatra coast, conceived as a fluid, all day destination integrating bistro, beach lounge, fine dining, and event spaces within a unified architectural identity. Rooted in a refined interpretation of bohemian style, the design emphasizes layering, tactile materials, and a relaxed spatial rhythm. Durable detailing, flexible shading systems, and atmospheric lighting enable seamless transitions from day to night while responding to demanding coastal conditions.

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Otsuchi

Otsuchi is a table lamp made from deer leather sourced in Otsuchi, Iwate, Japan. The town was struck by the tsunami caused by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Local crops were later damaged as the number of deer increased and the number of residents declined. Local hunters began a game meat business to make use of deer hunted as pests. The lamp is built from a 3D printed structure covered with deer leather, and the texture recalls the form of a living animal. The design honors the life of the deer and offers a calm presence.

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