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Designer / Brand: Steven Hu Work: Restaurant Classification: Interior Date: Monday, 24 March 2025

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.

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Designer / Brand: WenLi Wu Work: Sales Center Classification: Interior Date: Sunday, 23 March 2025

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.

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Designer / Brand: Li Shou Hung Work: Restaurant Classification: Interior Date: Saturday, 22 March 2025

Nostalgic Tunes

Le Ble D'or is a restaurant and bar interior in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, completed in May 2016. The design follows a nostalgic industrial theme. Recycled iron pieces are joined with wood veneer, and the joining angles and colors were adjusted repeatedly to create varied visual effects from the same materials. Mottled beer bottle walls and a large false window bring an image of continuous oxidation into the interior. Dark materials and careful color use capture subtle changes of light and shadow. The layout aims to create a strong sense of time and a close link between the space and its visitors.

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Designer / Brand: Yalan Zheng Work: Tattoo Shop Classification: Interior Date: Friday, 21 March 2025

Painted Skin

Painted Skin is a tattoo shop interior covering 240 square meters in Chengdu. The design theme follows the purpose of the shop, and the decorative details share a common origin with tattoo culture. A curved and dimly lit corridor leads into the space, which is finished in a rich retro style. A skeleton chandelier, made by hand over six months, hangs from the ceiling. Carved wooden cabinets, screens and bar counters add a sense of luxury to the dark palette. Beside the neoclassical tattoo area, two themed guest rooms are provided, named Mirror Palace and Cave.

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Designer / Brand: Zhoumin Wei Work: Sales Center Classification: Interior Date: Thursday, 20 March 2025

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.

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Designer / Brand: Happystudio Work: Residence Classification: Interior Date: Wednesday, 19 March 2025

Hide and Climb

Hide and Climb is a residential interior design covering 110 square meters in Taipei, Taiwan. The home combines rock climbing with spaces for working, learning, reading and playing, while keeping traditional areas such as the kitchen, dining space and bedrooms. A tree house form is used as the central icon, and the organic shape of the climbing wall is repeated across the plan. Birch plywood is the main material. The layout can change over time, as the tree house is planned to become a wardrobe when the two children grow older.

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