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Pandora Box Tavern by Shin-Lan Chao Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Shin-Lan Chao honored for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Pandora Box Tavern by Shin-Lan Chao, designed for YUYU Interior Design, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Pandora Box Tavern
Pandora Box is the interior design of a three-floor wine retail and tasting space in Taiwan. The building keeps its original spatial pattern, while the stairs are rotated to create a smoother traffic flow. Each floor is divided by function, with retail, display, counter, collection, gathering, light meal and private guest areas. A curved display cabinet and a marble bar counter are placed on the first floor. The wine collection is set deep inside the space to avoid western sunlight and to protect quality. Calm colors and warm wood tones give a quiet and elegant character.
Award Record
With this recognition, Shin-Lan Chao 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/127745
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/127745
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!127745
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/312506
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Pandora Box Tavern
- Function
- Tavern
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Maroon, Saddle Brown, Black, Sienna and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- YUYU Interior Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Shin-Lan Chao
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #127745
Credits
- Image Credits
- YUYU Interior Design
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The designer carefully evaluated the space conditions; the original stares are rotated to create a more smooth and harmonic traffic flow. Their functions partition the areas; the three floors are the display area, the counter area, the collection area, the gathering area, the light meal area, the VIP floor, and more. Customers can enjoy the outstanding wine collection in different areas according to their attendance and interests. The structure is injected with quiet and elegance by a calm and restrained color selection.
- Inspiration
- The space is a luxurious liquor sales center, conceives such as retail, wine tasting, displaying, collecting, and others fully presented in the partition of the single space three floors. Meanwhile, the client also hoped to show his taste and style throughout the wine-tasting area, attract other tasteful people into the wine tasting culture, bring unique personalities into the artistic space and select shop, and provide a glorious experience.
- Research
- The story behind the design is that the owner hoped to create a business for his daughter. The original base was bought many years ago. Due to the international crises and environmental trends, the owner wished to create a wine tasting space in his own country for people in business to purchase. Meanwhile, the spatial is expected to meet the needs of retail and collecting; with the planning through the areas and floors, the retail area, the collection area, the gathering area, the light meal area and the client exclusive guest room, and more areas are created.
- Challenge
- The space is a three-story building. Considering the need for wine collections and tasting in consideration, besides the thought-through installation of thermal insulation equipment, more attention was paid to the temperature adjustment. Therefore, the designer intentionally set up the liquor collection deep within the space to avoid being exposed under the sun in the west and retain the high quality.
- Realization and Technology
- Recycled bricks, lighting, marble, wooden cabinets, modeling wallpapers, louver door pieces, iron pieces, Moru glass doors, solid wood.
- Operation and Interaction
- To achieve a more affluent and harmonic space configuration, the designer rotated the original stairs especially to reflect a smoother movement planning. The front of the first floor has main functions including retail, tasting, and displaying; counter bars, curved glass cabinets, and hallowed storages are set around the area. The ceiling uses brick-imitating wallpapers as a collage; the combination of warm wooden tones and metallic frame embellishment shows qualities of low-key luxury. The end of the floor is the inner side of the space with fully equipped wine storage facilities.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project finished in April 2021 in Taiwan.
- Specifications
- The area is a 270-ping roughcast house with three floors in total. The designer kept the original spatial pattern and planned around it; the stairs are rotated to create a more smooth traffic flow, reflecting the designs and functions within the perfect spatial.
- Keywords
- Tavern space, wine collection, artistic atmosphere, curved sense, single household, business guests.
