Designs And Designers

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

 
The Unity of Zen and Martial Arts Tea Shop

Und Design Studio Tea Shop Interior Monday, 15 July 2024

The Unity of Zen and Martial Arts

The Unity of Zen and Martial Arts is a tea shop interior in Foshan, China. The design joins local culture with a brand culture based on new tea drinking. Foshan is known as a home of Wing Chun, and the wooden dummy used in Wing Chun inspired the spatial structure. Horizontal and vertical wooden members are joined with traditional mortise and tenon work, dividing the gray slate space into clear layers. Transparent acrylic boxes above the wooden posts hold dancing lion and pot wall symbols of Lingnan culture. A long central tea table recalls tea mountains.

Continue reading about The Unity of Zen and Martial Arts Tea Shop

 
Shuimolanting Sales Center

Zhoumin Wei Sales Center Interior Sunday, 14 July 2024

Shuimolanting

The Chinese style of this case adopts the dark coffee red ground stone on the market and the blank of the natural lighting of the floor window, forming a contrast between the light and shade, the virtual and the real. The virtual and aluminum wood grilles, the copper art lotus leaf pieces in the water scenic spot, and the Chinese character structure installation art in the rest area is the point of the "ink orchid court" case. In particular, the use of new materials of smallpox, in the ordinary highlight extraordinary, but also ingeniously reduce the cost of the surface.

Continue reading about Shuimolanting Sales Center

 
Qing Zhu Lake Sales Center

WenLi Wu Sales Center Interior Saturday, 13 July 2024

Qing Zhu Lake

QingZhu Lake is a sales center in ChangSha that also serves as a small library. The interior covers 1200 square meters and is finished with marble, glass and wood flooring. Surfaces are shaped to recall the pages of an open book. The quiet setting invites visitors to read and to return to printed books, as many young readers now prefer electronic ones. The intent is to give the building value beyond its basic sales function. The calm reading atmosphere is meant to encourage reflection and to leave a lasting memory.

Continue reading about Qing Zhu Lake Sales Center

 
Gao Wei Restaurant

Steven Hu Restaurant Interior Friday, 12 July 2024

Gao Wei

Gao Wei is a restaurant interior located on the third floor of a commercial mall in Kunming. The project covers 1100 square meters and presents Yunnan ethnic culture in a modern form. Different materials and colors define the functional areas, so physical partitions are reduced and the layout feels open. Smooth lines run across the walls and the ceiling, while inset lighting highlights the surface texture. The colorful exterior facade connects the interior with the mall and draws the attention of passing diners.

Continue reading about Gao Wei Restaurant

 
Shkrub Residential

Serhii Makhno Residential Interior Thursday, 11 July 2024

Shkrub

The Shkrub house appeared out of love and for love — a loving couple with three kids. The DNA of the house includes the structuring aesthetic principles that find inspiration in Ukrainian history and culture inspired by Japanese wisdom. The element of earth as a material makes itself felt in structural aspects of the home, such as the original thatched roof and in the beautiful and dense textured clay walls. The idea of paying homage, as a founding place, can be sensed throughout the home, like a delicate guiding thread.

Continue reading about Shkrub Residential

 
Mobius Lamp

Kejun Li Lamp Lighting Wednesday, 10 July 2024

Mobius

The Mobius ring gives inspiration for the design of Mobius lamps. One lamp strip may have two shadow surfaces (i.e. two-sided surface), the obverse and the reverse, which will satisfy all-round lighting demand. Its special and simple shape contains mysterious mathematical beauty. Therefore, more rhythmic beauty will be brought to home life.

Continue reading about Mobius Lamp