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  • Cuckoo clock inspires Vietnam cafe

    Cuckoo clock inspires Vietnam cafe

    Design firm Tropical Space has built a coffee shop inspired by a cuckoo clock in Vietnamese seaside city Da Nang.

    The design, featured by Dezeen, features a brick structure with a house perched on top, with the coffee shop forming a single-storey base and the house extending out over the garden area. The local clay brick base is inset with vaulting arches surrounding a large courtyard and the glass-walled shop area.

    “Habits mean most people’s daily lives usually take place in functional spaces,” said the firm’s architects. “We have detached the walls that define these spaces to offer buffer space, urging people to leave their rooms and join together.”

    The house area, divided into three distinct blocks, feature spaces that can be closed off by small cuckoo clock-style wooden doors.

    The shells of perforated brickwork create cool, shaded spaces that admit natural light, and reflect other designs by the firm built in the region.

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  • Fritz Hansen Opens First Store in China

    Fritz Hansen Opens First Store in China

    Furniture firm Fritz Hansen has launched a Jaime Hayon-designed showroom in the Chinese city of Xi’an.

    The new 1000sqm gallery, represents a stage in the brand’s ambition to become the largest Danish brand in China, is Fritz Hansen’s first store in China and its largest in the world.

    “You always need to find a way to be new, never done before – you need to create an experience,” said Fritz Hansen’s Asia CEO Dario Reicherl in an interview with Dezeen. “Through a series of steps, I believe we can be the biggest Danish brand in China in a couple of years.”

    The gallery/store is designed to resemble a temple with high ceilings, warm-hued walls and vaulted walkways created by the Spanish designer. Furniture on display is arranged in living room-style set-ups. Fourteen more intimate show spaces are accessible by a grand staircase.

    “Like in a labyrinth, you start to discover the little areas and each one has the furniture of Fritz Hansen,” said designer Jaime Hayon, “from the historical ones to the new ones I have designed, and pieces from other designers. The lighting and everything has been composed together with some art, carpeting, plants and small objects. So in this way we can inspire the client.”

    “China is the second biggest luxury market in the world, soon overtaking the US,” according to the brand’s executive VP of sales and marketing Lars Hardboe Galsgaard. “It will definitely be the biggest market and economy in the world in terms of private consumption and commercial consumption within a few years. So if you look at that marketplace, we needed to move here. We need to be part of that and we need to be part of defining design, furniture and lifestyle in China.”