While making functional art on the canvas of neatly staggered white columns, the designers present a colour palette that is in gradient. The ordinary passageway is transformed into a magnificent prelude and conclusion to an artistic journey Image: Courtesy of SFAP Within their attempts of creating an experiential retail space, the designers mention the interior design aims to depict the space as a verse from a Chinese poem - “ In my sleep, I heard the autumn breeze outside, but when I woke up, I couldn't find anything but buttonwood leaves falling all over the steps, bathed in the bright moonlight.” Like a splash of water on a lake, the upper end blends into the white ceiling in a gentle curve. The lower end of the buttonwood trunk-like columns spreads out to form long seating areas and bar counters encompassing the column like a floating cloud. Either end of the column becomes separate entities denoting varying concepts. While the repetitive pattern of white columns imparts the sense of walking amid a mystic forest of buttonwood trees, beyond the human eye level these columns transform into artistic expressions. Inspired by the buttonwood trees, found everywhere in Nanjing, the structural columns draw a resemblance to the trunks of the tree. With the aim to create “an atmosphere of timelessness”, the retail store design adorns the epiphanic beauty of white. X+Living uses art to create a distinctive conceptual retail space Image: Courtesy of SFAP
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