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Designer / Brand: Tung Chieh Chen, Chun Hsiao Chou Work: Restaurant Classification: Interior Date: Saturday, 30 December 2023

Lesprit cafe

Lesprit Cafe is a cafe interior located on the ground floor of a building in Tainan City, Taiwan. The space covers 66 square meters and includes a kitchen, a bar and a dining area. Flat marble, matt brass and black and white tile flooring create a calm and warm atmosphere. Laminated board is used for easy maintenance. Blue paint relates the interior to the exterior of the building. A wooden partition was removed to widen the space, and situational lighting with spotlights and chandeliers adds softness. Furniture from the earlier cafe is reused to limit cost and keep a consistent style.

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Designer / Brand: Li-Yu Cheng Work: Office Classification: Interior Date: Friday, 29 December 2023

Mastech Dongguan

To consider high density of users, multiple business relations, and unknown meeting typologies, this workplace aims to be open-plan and non-standard paradigm, to support any type of group talks. At the 1st floor, the reception area is compartmentalized by flooring plans. Each area faces to different orientation, bringing a little contrast, but maintaining more privacy during business talks. On 4th floor, considerable office desks are installed in the core area, surrounded by a loop of artificial turf running track, connecting every division and uniting working forces among peers.

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Designer / Brand: Kot Ge Work: Residential House Classification: Interior Date: Thursday, 28 December 2023

Anpin Xiaoyuan

Anpin Yuanshe Xiaoyuan is a residential interior design in the Qinhuai District of Nanjing, China. The project keeps the historical layout of streets and lanes and develops low-rise courtyard housing with yards and light wells. Grey tiles, white walls and wavy hip roofs follow the building tradition of southern Nanjing. The design joins the house with a garden that can be visited and lived in. Two related forms were developed for the site, one steady and one moderate and inclusive, both combining hard and soft elements.

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Designer / Brand: Chien-Neng Chang Work: Residential Apartment Classification: Interior Date: Wednesday, 27 December 2023

Verdurous Home

Verdurous Home is a residential interior design created for a family of five in Taichung, Taiwan. The property covers 445 square meters. Plant walls, more commonly used in commercial spaces, extend the vertical scale of the rooms and enliven the atmosphere. One plant wall forms a transition before the main living area on the second floor, where blue sofas, a carpet and a painting repeat the green tones. Wood and stone give a calm mood. The upper floors hold the private rooms around a sunlit central staircase.

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Designer / Brand: Kei Harada Work: Shop Classification: Interior Date: Tuesday, 26 December 2023

Oyane Saikaitoki

Oyane Saikaitoki is a shop and gallery interior created for Saikai porcelain from Hasami Town in Nagasaki, Japan. The shop occupies a basement floor, so a new entrance was added to improve access. A large staircase and an elevator were placed within a wall of a storage space on the ground floor, and both guide visitors to the shop, which uses two levels. Porcelain is used for the signage, the wall saggers and the pendant lights. The indoor area is 140 square meters and the outdoor area is 1150 square meters.

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Designer / Brand: Ran Tian Work: Exhibition Classification: Interior Date: Monday, 25 December 2023

LuYu

Art influences life and life brings profound reflection and interpretation of art. The distance between art and life may be on the daily commute. If you eat every meal carefully, you can turn your life into art. The designer’s creation is also art, which is produced with his own thoughts. Techniques are tools, and expressions are results. Only with thoughts will there be really good works.

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