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Partial of Style Residential House by Nic Lee Wins the A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Nic Lee honored 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 Partial of Style Residential House by Nic Lee, designed for Zoina Land, has been granted the 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 reached 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.
About the A' Design Award
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
More About Partial of Style Residential House
Partial of Style is a residential interior design located in Haimen, China. The home covers 195 square meters and includes a living room, dining room, kitchen, study area, master room, bedrooms and bathrooms. Dark green serpentine and plain white marble form strong color blocks that shape the walls like layers of oil paint. Walnut, oak, leather and brass add warm tones. The design recalls the mixed Chinese and Western styles of old Shanghai. Each area is defined by volume, so the flow of the space builds a calm and ritual-like experience.
About Nic Lee
The design director of Waterfrom Design, Nic Lee, has been in designs for over a decade, and his work mixes extreme simplicity with humor. He graduated from the Pratt Institute, New York with a Master of Science in interior design, as well as having participated in Denmark's International Study Program. Throughout his education and career, Nic has melded thinking from the arts, humanities, and philosophy, possessing the logical thinking of architecture and design, as well as the rebellious nature of artists. He likes to be the exception outside the norm, to redefine the current order, and to find the unexpected within the unpredictable inaccuracies.
Award Record
With this recognition, Nic Lee is a winner of 4 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2015 - 2016 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/120057
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/120057
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!120057
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/150588
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.waterfrom.com/projects_02.php?category=19&id=79
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Partial of Style Residential House
- Function
- Residential House
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Black, Silver, Dark Gray, Light Gray and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Zoina Land
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Nic Lee
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #120057
Credits
- Team
- Designer：Nic Lee, Designer：Richard Kuo, Designer：Wilson and Designer：Lucy Lin
- Image Credits
- Photographer LU FEN-FANG, Partial of Style, 2020.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- In order to rebuild the depth and elegance of the alleys and houses of Shili Yangchang, the designer of Waterfrom design chose serpentine, marble, walnut, brass and other contemporary materials to connect with the past, using a familiar and enchanting atmosphere from 1950s and 1960 as a visual overture. In this rhythmic layout, we hope to use some history from the bustling Shanghai to commemorate the exquisite classics that are compatible with its generation and regional art.
- Inspiration
- The western styles that remain in the Shanghai Concession are also seen everywhere in Haimen. Unlike the poetic and artistic conception of Chinese gardens, the old Shanghai western styles make good use of its noble colors and material textures to construct the soft and delicate space that people yearn for. Like the cheongsam on a Shanghai women, fashion has a worldly and restrained style.
- Research
- Before designing, we like to dig out the local history and culture. Haimen, known as "North Shanghai", is located at the border of the Yangtze River and the Yellow Sea, and its geographical conditions make it a colonial style that blends Chinese and Western cultures. Its buildings and living utensils are as fashionable and luxurious as Shanghai in different eras of the 20th century.
- Challenge
- In a pure space, we sculpt the advance and retreat of walls using the faces of strong color blocks. In an open area, people can watch the images constructed by color and proportion from different perspectives, just like paintings that return to the minimum artistic spirit of the same scene.
- Realization and Technology
- The vista is interpreted as a painting with heavy colors. The natural texture and color of dark green serpentine and plain white marble are like strong overlapping oil paints, which are arbitrarily replaced in our set blocks. Leather and walnut walls and furniture enrich the everyday vocabulary of modern design with warm tones. Performing art through materials full of historical sentiment, which represents Haimen's Chinese and Western past.
- Operation and Interaction
- Return to the purest residence and create a field hidden from the hustle and bustle of the city. Within this space, the prosperity of the old Shanghai is scaled into the material, and the behavior of each field is defined in volume, shaping and spreading the invisible architectural vocabulary. The flow line of the space builds the depth and experience of a certain ritual-like humanistic texture.
- Project Duration and Location
- Design Period：2019.05～2019.08 Construction Period：2020.02～2020.04 Location: Haimen, China
- Specifications
- Area： 195m2 Layout：living room, dining room, kitchen, study area, master room, bedroom. bathroom Material：white paint oak, walnut veneer, red and black oak skin paint, fumigated oak, oak flooring, plain white marble, green serpentine, stainless steel, beige wall covering, dark red leather
- Keywords
- interior design, residential, china, home, marble, haimen
