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Design Ambient

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

 

Amblem Furnishing

Amblem Home Furnishing is an exhibition and office interior created inside a former factory building in Hangzhou. The original hall is 60 meters long and 24 meters wide. Office rooms that need daylight are placed along the outer walls. The open center is used as a flexible public area and is lit by an elliptical skylight. The layout combines lines taken from constructivist painting with elements of traditional Chinese gardens. Interwoven stairs and hollow openings form an inner garden with changing views along two verandas.

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Rattan and Crane

Rattan and Crane is a residential interior design scheme based on oriental culture. The scheme combines classic oriental elements with a modern home space to offer living solutions with a regional character. Custom cabinets, wall panels, wooden doors, floors and smart devices are included. Rattan materials and digital pattern printing are used to create authentic oriental visual features. A crane pattern taken from traditional Chinese painting is turned into a mass-produced veneer wall panel. Storage spaces are customized to the function of each living area.

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Forest Evening

Forest Evening is a residential interior design for a villa set within a quiet forest. The design links the interior with the surrounding landscape through borrowed scenery, as large windows bring the outside view into the rooms. Natural materials such as leather, wood grain and stone grain give the space an organic character. Customized cabinets and decorative modules provide generous storage. Metal edging joins leather surfaces of different textures, while stone and metal act as functional support and decorative detail.

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2046

2046 is a restaurant interior in which a film theme guides the spatial narrative. The design draws on the culture of Hunan cuisine and combines it with vivid colors taken from cinema to create an immersive sensory experience. Materials include crystal glass brick, aluminum profile, micro cement, crystal mirror glass brick and translucent terrazzo. The space is divided into three areas, with scattered seats, booth seats and private rooms, so guests can walk, talk and gather. The intent is to offer young customers a dining place that also serves as a social platform.

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Zijin Art Museum

Zijin Art Museum is an interior design for a two-floor art gallery and sales center covering 1,200 square meters. The theme is Order and Art, based on the concept of unbounded design. The first floor holds the front hall, reception desk, model room and craft display. The second floor contains a brand video area, a sand table area, a water bar and a negotiation area. A vertical staircase links the two levels, and annular circulation routes connect the spaces. Wood veneer, stone, special paint and metal are combined throughout.

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Utopia

The radiant natural light is the source of the form of this space. An organic, inclusive space was the feeling designers wanted to create, so they also compared a lot of organic space practices, including the positioning of the construction drawings. The original basement space occupied half of the whole area, but the existing lighting in the basement only allowed the owner to make some useless space out of it. In order to improve the utilization rate of the whole underground space and increase the lighting, the designer wants to create a brand-new construction around the light indoors.

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