Design Lifestyle Magazine

Design Lifestyle Magazine

Design Lifestyle Magazine featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

The One Mansion Xi'an

Xi'an The One Mansion is a sales center interior covering 998 square meters. The design draws on the culture of Chang'an, the ancient capital that marks the starting point of the Silk Road. A concept named wei-cheng guides the layout of the sales center. The traditional Chinese idea of a round sky and a square earth informs the forms and proportions. Light and shadow are used to create a calm and moderate atmosphere. Empty and solid areas are balanced so that the space carries traces of time.

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Yard

Yard Apartment is a short-rent residential interior in Shanghai with an interior area of 25 square meters. The design connects the indoor rooms with a courtyard, which serves as an outdoor living room in good weather. A bar links the inside and the outside. The sunken living room creates changes in height, and a mezzanine holds the bedroom. Wood veneer and wood furniture give the small home a warm character, while the bathroom is finished in dark cement paint. Custom furniture allows several functions to overlap in a very limited area.

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Yappy Bookstore

Yappy Bookstore is a multifunctional bookstore interior in Taipei, Taiwan, covering 450 square meters. The space is used for reading, film screenings, lectures and music performances. The large beams and columns of the old building are treated as camera frames that guide views across the rooms. Vintage books, bricks, iron, old window frames and concrete are combined, so old and new surfaces meet without a clear boundary. A red book wall leads visitors through the interior. Small openings in the walls bring daylight inside, and a high stage blurs the border between performers and audience.

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Graceful Home

Graceful Home is a residential apartment interior located in Taipei City, with a floor area of 49.5 square meters. Leisure and brightness guide the whole design. Because the indoor space is small, sloped surfaces define the different areas, use the plan efficiently and widen the sense of sight. Iron details, coatings and imported tiles create contrasting textures. Clear lines, precise layouts and a minimalist Nordic character shape the rooms. Large windows bring daylight inside and open the views to nature.

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Spark

Spark is a residential interior design for a four-floor house with a total area of 1,448 square meters. The interior combines minimal white walls and ceilings with dark timber floors laid in a herringbone pattern. A twisting staircase connects the floors and rises to the attic, and the whitewashed balustrade curves into a sculptural ribbon. Partitions were reduced to join the kitchen, dining area and lounge in one open plan. Large windows bring natural light into the living room and frame views of the garden.

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Eatime Space

All humans are entitled to be linked with time and memory. The word Eatime sounds like time in Chinese. Eatime space offers venues to encourage people to eat, work, and recall in peace. The concept of time interacts with workshop closely, which has witnessed changes as time goes by. Based on the workshop style, the design includes industry structure and the environment as basic elements to construct space. Eatime pays homage to the purest form of design by subtly blending the elements lending themselves to both raw and finished decor.

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