Design Trade

Design Trade

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

 

The Urban Foundry

TUF is a hangout that blends into its neighbouring infrastructure, yet contrasting it with a feel that makes you enjoy a rustic foundry ambience. Raw industrial design from ceiling to floor, the designers have incorporated its concept into everything that they have put into place. From container bars to tables that have been suspended from the ceiling with the help of chains and clamps, they have worked on smallest details. One of the key features is that designers have incorporated the magic of kinetic energy in movement through large gears on wall that compliments overall masculine look.

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Big Easy Winebar and Grill

Big Easy Winebar & Grill is the result of a collaboration between Virserius Studio, Beyond Hospitality and the design team of professional golfer Ernie 'Big Easy' Els. Big Easy includes several unique spaces, all tied together by inviting rustic elements. Guests and golf fans can stop by the retail shop to buy Big Easy wine from Els’s own vineyard, olive oils, vinegars and other memorabilia. They will leave Big Easy Winebar & Grill having enjoyed a superior culinary, cultural and sensory experience that they are sure to remember for a long time.

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12,000 Francs

In 1795, Napoleon offered a prize of 12,000 francs to whoever could invent a way to preserve food for his army, this provided the inspiration for this restaurant in Hong Kong. 12,000 Francs boasts an elegant exterior decorated with geometric tiles. As guests walk through the threshold, stylish interiors exude a seductive and evocative other world atmosphere distinctive from the chaotic and bustling neon lit streets steps away. Napoleonic inspiration weave their way through out the design.

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Riviera Palm Springs

Dating back to the 1960s, The Riviera is one of Palm Springs’ most storied hotels, having most recently boasted a 1970's glam aesthetic and a history of glamorous guests from Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack to Marylin Monroe. Rose Ink Workshop reimagined the space to jive with contemporary Palm Springs, creating a bohemian getaway that was stylish, eclectic, and cool. Inspired by the easy glamour of Slim Aaron's photographs, the new design emphasizes mid-century styles & vibrant playful colors with a just sprinkling of retro nostalgia.

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Rook

The word Rook means tower and it was chosen metaphorically to hint a strategy game on an entertainment chessboard. The design concept based on the contrasting nature of White and Black, created an interplay between old and new allowing various metaphors to enable this link between past and present. While taking into account the building history and location, elements of adaptive reuse were employed accentuated by materials and patterns in order to emit the element of time from a minimalist perspective.

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Urban Contemporary

The flagship and the newest international five star hotel in West Jakarta, located in Podomoro City Super Block, and twenty five minutes from Soekarno Hatta Airport, Pullman Jakarta Central Park is an upscale contemporary hotel offers a unique concept of hospitality through the integration of the shopping mall, office and leisure entertainment options. It has also adopted a refreshing mix of high technology hospitality, industrial raw, modern museum and glamorous urban living design as its signature.

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