Design Lifestyle Magazine

Design Lifestyle Magazine

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

 

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is an office interior located in Sofia, Bulgaria. The space covers 490 square meters on two levels and holds twelve rooms, including one conference room, three meeting rooms and eight offices, plus a training zone and a large common area. A six-meter island bar and kitchen, polished concrete, OSB panels, metal rails and Persian rugs create an industrial minimalist style. Custom rail lights divide the work areas without closing them. In the evening, neon and low-hanging lights turn the office into an event venue.

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Poly Conghua

Poly Conghua is a sales center located in a suburban district of Guangzhou. The interior covers 1013 square meters. The design is based on the litchi, a local fruit of Conghua, and on the triangular elements of the site and its buildings. A large litchi art installation marks the entrance and leads visitors into the space. Further installations, structures and furnishings continue the same theme. Materials include plated metal, resin, leather, marble and acrylic fibers. The aim is to join local culture with modern interior design.

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Hilton Shenzhen World Exhibition Center

Hilton Shenzhen World Exhibition Center is a business hotel interior of 36,600 square meters in Shenzhen Airport New Town. The hotel is connected to the Shenzhen World Exhibition and Convention Center. The design draws on local cultures of shipping, exhibition and the ocean. Container and sail motifs appear as alternating blocks, original artworks and curved lines. The lobby is kept minimal to hold large crowds in peak season, while the lounge offers sofa sets and long tables for meetings. The restaurant on the third floor lets guests reach the center from the sky loggia.

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National Gallery Athens

In the 1960's modern building of the National Gallery in Athens, the exhibition rooms are designed like a promenade in open space. The interior is designed as a sequence of wooden lined transitional areas for information, and of white exhibition rooms with specially designed suspended ceilings for each exhibition function. Controlling the directions of gaze, the depth of view in the rooms and towards the city, the general lighting in relevance with the exterior light, and subduing the materials and the technical details to highlight the works of art, the space gives an affect of free choice.

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Plover

Plover is a multi-purpose chair designed for classrooms, seminars and collaborative workshops. The chair supports several sitting postures. Users can sit in the conventional front-facing position, or sit back-to-front in a horse-riding posture. The characteristic feature of Plover is an integrated tablet that forms a small work surface. The tablet also serves as an armrest for side seating or as a higher seat with a footrest. The chairs can be used individually or grouped together for discussion and co-creation.

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Sfumato

Sfumato is a modular shelving system for living and office spaces. The outline of Sfumato recalls an urban skyline, wide and solid at the bottom, fragmented at the top, with a continuous horizontal base. Modules of different heights and depths are combined to create many configurations and sizes. The system can stand alone or be mounted on a wall. Open shelves display small objects, while closed doors conceal them. The body, shelves, partitions and front panels are made of MDF with a matt lacquer finish.

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