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Both Boutique & Music Vinyl Record Bar & Cafe

Tomohiro Katsuki Vinyl Record Bar & Cafe Interior Thursday, 11 August 2022

Both Boutique & Music

Both Boutique and Music is a retail interior project in Red Town, a former ironworks in Shanghai that is now a sculpture art district. The scheme covers a boutique of 370 square meters and a music store of 170 square meters set over two levels. The design is built on the idea of contrast between Western and Eastern, old and new, and static and dynamic. The boutique is treated as a bridge that brings goods from around the world, while the music store is arranged around the act of focusing. The surrounding art park setting is retained to encourage exchange among local residents.

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FoodSmith FireWood Oven & Grill Restaurant

Amer Abidi FireWood Oven & Grill Restaurant Interior Wednesday, 10 August 2022

FoodSmith

FoodSmith is a firewood oven and grill restaurant located in Amman, Jordan. The interior covers 150 square metres on the ground floor, while the kitchen and service areas occupy 70 square metres upstairs. The design recalls an old blacksmith workshop and is built almost entirely from reclaimed and recycled materials, including lumber, copper piping and cement brick tiles. Every plank, pipe and brick was planned through detailed construction drawings. The result appears informal, yet each element is carefully arranged.

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Chongqing Mountain and City Sales Office Sales Office

Ajax Law Sales Office Interior Monday, 8 August 2022

Chongqing Mountain and City Sales Office

“Mountain” is the main theme of this sales office, which is inspired by the geographical background of Chongqing. The pattern of grey marbles on the floor is forming in triangular shape; and there are lots of odd and sharp angles and corners on the feature walls and the irregular shaped reception counters, to demonstrate the concept of “mountain”. In addition, the stairs connecting the floors are designed to be a passage through the cave. Meanwhile, LED lightings are hanged from the ceiling, imitating raining scene in valley and presenting natural feeling, to soften the whole impression.

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5x5 Chair

Barbara Princic Chair Furniture Sunday, 7 August 2022

5x5

The 5x5 chair is a typical design project where the limitation is recognised as a challenge. The chair's seat and the back are made of xilith which is very difficult to be shaped. Xilith is the raw material that can be found 300 meters under the ground's surface and is comined with a coal. Currently the majority of the raw material is thrown away. From environmental point of view this material generates waste on the earth's surface. Therefore the idea about the chair design seemed to be very provocative and challenging.

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Ydin Stool

Franck Divay Stool Furniture Saturday, 6 August 2022

Ydin

Ydin stool can be mounted by yourself, without using special tools, thanks to a simple interlocking system. The 4 identical feet are placed in no particular order and the concrete seat, acting as the keystone, keeps everything in place. Feet are made with scrap wood coming from a stairs manufacturer, easily machined using traditional woodworking techniques and finally oiled. The seat is simply moulded in a lasting fiber-reinforced UHP Concrete. Only 5 dissociable parts to be flat packed and ready to be shipped to final customers, is another sustainability argument.

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