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

 
Saltatur Furniture

Masoud Akbarzadeh Furniture Furniture Friday, 28 October 2022

Saltatur

Saltatur is a long-span table designed as a prefabricated composite structure. The table combines a compression-only concrete body, post-tensioning steel rods and an ultra-thin glass top. The glass top is shaped as a funicular three-hinged arch spanning 3.75 meters. The structural form was developed with three-dimensional graphic statics, so the concrete body is held in compression by tension ties at the top and bottom. The discrete spatial system reduces the volume of concrete and the carbon footprint while preserving the mass needed for structural performance.

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Taisi Personal Residence

SHAO-FONG WANG Personal Residence Interior Thursday, 27 October 2022

Taisi

Taisi is a private residence located in Taoyuan City, Taiwan. The home covers 83 square meters with a ceiling height of 2.6 meters. Rain tree wood, Taiwan cypress, lotos plaster, tatami and bricks from Toki City in Japan form a calm and vintage interior. The design draws on the Taoyuan Martyrs' Shrine, a building that combines Chinese, Japanese and Taiwanese styles. An open circulation plan and wide windows let light reveal the texture of wood and walls. The kitchen can be opened or closed as needed. The residence also serves as a place for business meetings and family gatherings.

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Rhythm Sales Center

Kris Lin Sales Center Interior Wednesday, 26 October 2022

Rhythm

Rhythm is a sales center in Changshu, China, with an area of 1050 square meters. Simple and free curved lines shape the exterior wall design, so the building appears as a floating light box and forms a visual focus. Inside the sales center, a waving rhythm serves as both decoration and boundary. Grey and white forms interlace to connect the spaces on the first and second floors while dividing them into areas. Several kinds of marble are used, and wood lines form geometric elevations made by skilled carpenters.

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Beans Restaurant and Cafe

Vincent Chi-Wai Chiang Restaurant and Cafe Interior Tuesday, 25 October 2022

Beans

Beans is a cafe and restaurant in Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, serving coffee, desserts and light meals. The interior covers 2263 square feet and has no windows, so the design takes the form of a crystal cave. Reflective surfaces and warm lighting brighten the space and reduce the feeling of enclosure. A waving stainless steel surface forms a lake near the entrance ceiling, and narrow rocks are made by three-dimensional printing. A tree stands at the centre and grows toward the light. The dessert bar is placed near the entrance to ease ordering.

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Ska V29 Dining Table

Ascanio Zocchi Dining Table Furniture Monday, 24 October 2022

Ska V29

Solid natural larch wood table worked with numerical control machines and finished by hand, the particularity is the shape that recalls the position of the trees, demolished by the Vaia storm that hit the Dolomites and represented by solid wood larch wood axes themselves. The hand-polished surface makes the surface opaque and smooth to the touch and enhances its veins and shapes. The base, made of powder-coated steel, represents the pine forest before the storm passes.

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BeantoBar Lounge

Riki Watanabe Lounge Interior Sunday, 23 October 2022

BeantoBar

An important element of this design was to bring out the appeal of the materials used. The main material used was western red cedar, which is also used in their first store in Japan. As a way of showing the material, Riki Watanabe stacked up a mosaic pattern by piling together pieces one by one like a parquet, making use of the essence of materials uneven colors. Despite using the same materials, by cutting them out, Riki Watanabe was successfully able to vary the expressions depending on the viewing angles.

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