The client often invites friends to be guests at home, and the central bar counter has become a hub for social intercourse. This kind of high quality “heart-to-heart” conversation is impressive. This time, the client tasks us with designing the daughter’s apartment. It would be a good idea to pass on the “social intercourse DNA”, a trait for the client’s family. Our plan is to explore the possibility of quality communication through “space layout” and “modern sculptural art”.
We plan to take a fresh look at space by putting the long “bar counter” at the most prominent position while putting the living room area at a secondary place. Inside the modeling under a window, there will be space for favorite whisky and beer. A projector screen is embedded inside a sculpture suspended before a window on the other side. Visitors may sit anywhere, at the “bar counter”, in the “living room area” or on “steps”.
If there are no proper works of art for the apartment, we may even create our own in the space. (which gives us confidence to showcase the works of space before soft outfit design).
Our hope is to give the space a sense of “clumsiness”, “good-natured sincerity” and an air of “humor” through sculptural art, instead of a feeling of being “smart” or “flaunting”. Today’s social relationship requires courage to be the first in demonstrating a sense of “clumsiness”; at the same time, a sense of security conveyed by the “clumsiness” would be healing to the soul and would resonate with the wise and the sincere.
In order to bring the space closer to nature and the outdoors, the walls are painted with artificial hand-painted outdoor coatings;The ground and countertops are made of terrazzo, with shells embedded in them.