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Minyi Zhang Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Oshare House Salon in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Minyi Zhang for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Oshare House Salon by Minyi Zhang, designed for Giova design. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About Oshare House Salon
Oshare House is a hair salon located in Guangzhou, China. The interior covers a floor area of 70 square meters and is arranged on two levels. The compact layout includes a front desk, ten haircut stations, two VIP rooms, a shampoo area, a storage room, a steep staircase and a small vertical elevator. Fine wood, marble and precious metals create a warm and elegant setting. Soft green linen panels and curving forms recall the lobbies of old European residences. The design gives visitors a clean, calm and comfortable experience within a limited space.
About Minyi Zhang
Minyi Zhang is an interior designer. She studied interior design at the polytechnic university of Milan in Italy. When she returned to her country, She has set up her own studio for five years. She is mainly engaged in entertainment category of commercial space design. And her design style is minimalist. Two of her projects have won A'design award & competition silver award for two consecutive years.
Award Record
With this recognition, Minyi Zhang is a winner of 4 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2017 - 2018 and the 2020 - 2021 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/118929
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/118929
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!118929
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/220224
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Oshare House Salon
- Function
- Salon
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Black, Slate Gray and Light Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Giova design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Minyi Zhang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #118929
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer Alien Kwok, Guangzhou Oshare, 2019.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The purpose of Oshare house is to provide customers with comfortable, clean and leisurely space for physical examination. Based on this goal, Oshare house not only pursues aesthetics in design, but also has relatively small live spaces, but designers combine European cultural characteristics to create "small and delicate" spaces.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the lobby of old European residences, the elegant mottled green marble, the melancholy and nostalgic green wall paint, the bronzed letter box, the small elevator with the period color.
- Research
- Under the constraints of the venue, designers need to study the minimum reasonable and comfortable range of hairdressers and reasonable customer walking routes.
- Challenge
- The space is small and divided into upper and lower halves. Stylist needs to arrange all functional areas reasonably inside limited space. Included are, front desk, 10 haircuts, 2 VIP Spaces, shampoo area, warehouse, an existing steep staircase, and a new small vertical elevator.
- Realization and Technology
- The selection of materials for the first mono-brand boutique includes warm elements, fine woods, marble and precious metals, all evoking the atmosphere of tangible and sophisticated elegance that reflects the aesthetics of Oshare’s collections.
- Operation and Interaction
- Designers designed the space in a manner that creates a comfortable treatment experience.warmth through colors and materials is achieved by the soft green linen-clad systems that floats below the ceiling and in front of the walls. a vintage character is established by the curving forms that express formal and tactile setting that ultimately allows for the salon to encounter new lightness.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project is finished in October 2019 in Guangzhou, China.
- Specifications
- The floor area of the project is 70 sqm.
- Keywords
- Hairdresser, Guangzhou, China, urban interior design, salon, nostalgia, elegance
