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Cosmetea Pop Up Shop by Lina Chen and Yiting Ma Receives the Golden A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Lina Chen and Yiting Ma recognized for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Cosmetea Pop Up Shop by Lina Chen and Yiting Ma, designed for Nax Architects, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Golden A' Design Award Explained
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
About Cosmetea Pop Up Shop
Cosmetea Pop Up is a retail and exhibition shop in Shanghai, China. The 9 square meter space occupies a former steamed bun restaurant on Yuyuan Road, a street with more than 100 years of history. The design combines tea with cosmetics. A dramatic opening on the facade, inspired by the tea pitcher form of the brand logo, extends into a narrow circular tunnel clad in mirrored stainless steel and lit by LED strips. Shelves are inserted into bespoke slots based on mortise and tenon joints. A red wall cabinet provides display and storage.
About Lina Chen and Yiting Ma
Nax Architects is an international design agency creating architecture, interior, branding, and interaction solutions. Committed to providing professional and high-quality services, we highly value sustainability and modern integration of humanity, technology, and commerce.
Award Record
With this recognition, Lina Chen and Yiting Ma is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award
The A' Interior Design Award is an international interior design competition recognizing good interior designs by interior designers and architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Entries typically include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. Awarded interior designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/117099
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/117099
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!117099
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/298331
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://reurl.cc/3N7Yl0
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Cosmetea Pop Up Shop
- Function
- Shop
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Nax Architects
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Lina Chen and Yiting Ma
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #117099
Credits
- Team
- Lina Chan, Yiting Ma, Jo Jiao
- Image Credits
- Raitt Liu
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Within an area of 9m2, the project subverted the conventional definition of beauty, innovatively integrated tea with cosmetics, thereby transforming a former steamed dumpling shop into are tailing and exhibition pop-up shop for Cosmetea. Basing on the dimensions of spatial design and brand planning, the designers conceived immersive spatial scenes and experiences, explored the relationship between nature and the artificial realm, and pointed a path for the brand's creative, sustainable evolution.
- Inspiration
- Tea has long served as a carrier. It's good for health and also acts as a medium of socializing -such dual attributes have been given diverse interpretations in the new era, in order to fit into the lifestyles of modern urbanites. COSMETEA is a tea cosmetics brand, which breaks the conventional definition of beauty and innovatively combines tea materials with its "Tea Beauty Science", to convey modern fashion aesthetics derived from Oriental naturalism.
- Research
- The project sits on Yuyuan Road, which has a history of more than 100 years and carries the cultural context of Shanghai. The brand selected a former small steamed bun restaurant at a corner of Yuyan Road, and asked Nax Architects to convert it into a pop-up for retailing and exhibition purposes, hoping to create a new venue that caters to the lifestyles of contemporary urban people and convey the genes and values of the brand.
- Challenge
- How to subverted the conventional definition of beauty, innovatively integrated tea with cosmetics is the challange for this project.
- Realization and Technology
- The entire tunnel is clad in mirrored stainless steel and highlighted by LED strip lights. Shelves are orderly inserted into bespoke slots by drawing on the concept of mortise and tenon joints. The wall cabinet that serves display and storage functions is finished with red paint, which echoes the brand's visual identity. The narrow circular tunnel is like a "wormhole" across time and space, enabling people to temporarily escape from the hustle and bustle of daily life.
- Operation and Interaction
- The designers drew inspiration from the brand's logo, which outlines a tea pitcher. Based on the brand logo's pendulum-like form and symbolic meaning, the design team carved out a dramatic opening on the facade, and extended it to the 9m2 tunnel space, thereby creating an infinite realm within the limited site area.
- Project Duration and Location
- Location: Shanghai, China Completion time: the end of 2019
- Specifications
- Area: 9 sqm Type: Pop-up Shop
- Keywords
- Cosmetea, Beauty shop, Pop Up, Renovation, Immersive, Nax Architects
