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Apartment X
Beijing, China
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2019
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
Unknown
The Modern Globetrotter's Social Home
Right in the heart of Beijing, with an open view of the CCTV tower, the clients purchased this property as a couple entering into a new chapter of their lives. Both of them, avid travelers professionally and leisurely, will share a life child-free with two dogs.
With a common interest in memorabilia, the couple has accumulated an abundance of manufactured products from all over the world. Without much experience in home furnishing, the clients hired OFFICE AIO looking for a refined perspective to transform their city home.
The Tranquil Base of Clarity
Upon entry, a foyer sets the tone of this 135m2 light-filled apartment. Opposite the windows, a continuous partition of bespoke modular panels encloses the service and storage areas. A cloakroom installed with display shelves showcases a rotating selection of the couple's collection in the living room. Behind the hidden doors are a guest bathroom and a generous walk-in wardrobe. This unity offers an ordered and minimal look that conceals the many belongings behind, setting itself as the house's elegant backdrop.
On the side of the windows are all the living and social areas, each enjoying ample lighting from its large openings overlooking the city. At the end of the hall, the couple's tranquil room takes advantage of the apartment's whole depth. A bed sits on an elevated carpeted step with a corner window overlooking the city. A study shares the space across the room, where modular shelves denoting a connection with the bed.
A Deluxe Social Dining Room at Home
Food is another passion of the couple, whose focus lies in the process of sharing and socializing. A dining area takes up the space relinquished by an adjacent bedroom previously planned in the apartment. Plenty of rooms are reserved around the U-shaped kitchen, allowing more working and walking areas for socializing between dining and cooking.
Complemented by an airy table and double doors made with glass, the dark shade kitchen establishes itself as the heart of the apartment's life. While its guest walks through the white hallway, the dining room strikes as a fine-dining restaurant's private room, providing a deluxe ambient in a casual domestic environment.
A Practice in Designing the Modern Home
New to the world of possibilities with home design, the clients wish to be inspired rather than dictate. OFFICE AIO exercises the freedom with an approach between minimalistic and classic. From hardware, furniture to fittings, the selection and customization are balanced with interest and timeliness. Globular metallic elements are echoed throughout the apartment, from wall pendants to floor lights to doorknobs, visually connecting different rooms and adding a sense of playfulness to represent the clients' personalities.
The design process was a mutual practice. It inspired the clients to discover the beauty of tailor-made interiors in contrast to their yearning for the outer world's mass-produced. It was also one for us, the designer, to ponder what modern living is to our contemporaries - a restful space that brings attraction and interaction back home.
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Being new to a world of possibilities with decor, the clients wish to be inspired rather than to dictate. OFFICE AIO exercises freedom given by the clients to craft an approach selection and customization of hardware, furniture, and fittings. Given the surfaces and detailing carry a spirit between minimalistic and classic, OFFICE AIO finds it appropriate to carry the same spirit as a continuation this theme with decor. A sense of “understated luxury” achieved through the balance of minimalistic modern classics, functional, and muted. Every so often a piece is selected and placed to stand out and to represent the playful souls of the owners’. All of them are either already classic, or we believe would become new classics.
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For a 135sqm apartment with 二哥 and 二嫂 love to travel, as people do, they would snap up a memorabilia or two from their trip in one form or another. Over time, they have collected an abundance of articles that had piled up in their then home.
As a travel buff himself, 二哥 along with 二嫂 lives a vivacious life outside of their home. Through this understanding about their lives and lifestyle, OFFICE AIO was inspired to design a home that is contrastingly tranquil in spirt, visually decluttered, minimal but refined. A home where the clients can seek to balance their otherwise ‘bon vivant' lifestyle. The challenge, was to achieve a sense of spaciousness in a mere 135sqm while fulfilling the functional needs for living and archiving.
As one could imagine, globetrotters are also foodies, both 二哥 and 二嫂 developed great love for food for many years, and with food, comes the love to share. Immediately, OFFICE AIO realised a need for the owners to have a social space surrounding food.
“Considering the limited space of an apartment and the love for inviting family and friends to enjoy a good meal, we see more value in shifting the function of a traditional living room as a main social space to a spacious kitchen bench/dining room.” Designer explains to client.
OFFICE AIO’s response was to consolidate the original kitchen space with the adjacent bedroom to create a generous “social kitchen” - Tailoring a social gathering heart to the project that could otherwise only be fulfilled in a sizeable house / villa.
Decor - A New Found Hobby
Being new to a world of possibilities with decor, owners wish to be inspired rather than to dictate. OFFICE AIO was given the freedom to define an approach for the selection and customisation of hardware, furniture, and fittings. Given the surfaces and detailing carry a spirit between minimalistic and classic, OFFICE AIO finds it appropriate to carry the same spirit as a continuation this theme with decor. A sense of “understated luxury” achieved through the balance of minimalistic modern classics, functional, and muted. Every so often a piece is selected and placed to stand out and to represent the playful souls of the owners’. All of them are either already classic, or we believe would become new classics.
Right in the heart of Beijing, with an open view of the CCTV tower, the clients purchased this property as a couple entering into a new chapter of their lives. Both of them, avid travelers professionally and leisurely, will share a life child-free with two dogs.
With a common interest in memorabilia, the couple has accumulated an abundance of manufactured products from all over the world. Without much experience in home furnishing, the clients hired OFFICE AIO looking for a refined perspective to transform their city home.
The Tranquil Base of Clarity
Upon entry, a foyer sets the tone of this 135m2 light-filled apartment. Opposite the windows, a continuous partition of bespoke modular panels encloses the service and storage areas. A cloakroom installed with display shelves showcases a rotating selection of the couple's collection in the living room. Behind the hidden doors are a guest bathroom and a generous walk-in wardrobe. This unity offers an ordered and minimal look that conceals the many belongings behind, setting itself as the house's elegant backdrop.
On the side of the windows are all the living and social areas, each enjoying ample lighting from its large openings overlooking the city. At the end of the hall, the couple's tranquil room takes advantage of the apartment's whole depth. A bed sits on an elevated carpeted step with a corner window overlooking the city. A study shares the space across the room, where modular shelves denoting a connection with the bed.
A Deluxe Social Dining Room at Home
Food is another passion of the couple, whose focus lies in the process of sharing and socializing. A dining area takes up the space relinquished by an adjacent bedroom previously planned in the apartment. Plenty of rooms are reserved around the U-shaped kitchen, allowing more working and walking areas for socializing between dining and cooking.
Complemented by an airy table and double doors made with glass, the dark shade kitchen establishes itself as the heart of the apartment's life. While its guest walks through the white hallway, the dining room strikes as a fine-dining restaurant's private room, providing a deluxe ambient in a casual domestic environment.
A Practice in Designing the Modern Home
New to the world of possibilities with home design, the clients wish to be inspired rather than dictate. OFFICE AIO exercises the freedom with an approach between minimalistic and classic. From hardware, furniture to fittings, the selection and customization are balanced with interest and timeliness. Globular metallic elements are echoed throughout the apartment, from wall pendants to floor lights to doorknobs, visually connecting different rooms and adding a sense of playfulness to represent the clients' personalities.
The design process was a mutual practice. It inspired the clients to discover the beauty of tailor-made interiors in contrast to their yearning for the outer world's mass-produced. It was also one for us, the designer, to ponder what modern living is to our contemporaries - a restful space that brings attraction and interaction back home.
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Being new to a world of possibilities with decor, the clients wish to be inspired rather than to dictate. OFFICE AIO exercises freedom given by the clients to craft an approach selection and customization of hardware, furniture, and fittings. Given the surfaces and detailing carry a spirit between minimalistic and classic, OFFICE AIO finds it appropriate to carry the same spirit as a continuation this theme with decor. A sense of “understated luxury” achieved through the balance of minimalistic modern classics, functional, and muted. Every so often a piece is selected and placed to stand out and to represent the playful souls of the owners’. All of them are either already classic, or we believe would become new classics.
-
For a 135sqm apartment with 二哥 and 二嫂 love to travel, as people do, they would snap up a memorabilia or two from their trip in one form or another. Over time, they have collected an abundance of articles that had piled up in their then home.
As a travel buff himself, 二哥 along with 二嫂 lives a vivacious life outside of their home. Through this understanding about their lives and lifestyle, OFFICE AIO was inspired to design a home that is contrastingly tranquil in spirt, visually decluttered, minimal but refined. A home where the clients can seek to balance their otherwise ‘bon vivant' lifestyle. The challenge, was to achieve a sense of spaciousness in a mere 135sqm while fulfilling the functional needs for living and archiving.
As one could imagine, globetrotters are also foodies, both 二哥 and 二嫂 developed great love for food for many years, and with food, comes the love to share. Immediately, OFFICE AIO realised a need for the owners to have a social space surrounding food.
“Considering the limited space of an apartment and the love for inviting family and friends to enjoy a good meal, we see more value in shifting the function of a traditional living room as a main social space to a spacious kitchen bench/dining room.” Designer explains to client.
OFFICE AIO’s response was to consolidate the original kitchen space with the adjacent bedroom to create a generous “social kitchen” - Tailoring a social gathering heart to the project that could otherwise only be fulfilled in a sizeable house / villa.
Decor - A New Found Hobby
Being new to a world of possibilities with decor, owners wish to be inspired rather than to dictate. OFFICE AIO was given the freedom to define an approach for the selection and customisation of hardware, furniture, and fittings. Given the surfaces and detailing carry a spirit between minimalistic and classic, OFFICE AIO finds it appropriate to carry the same spirit as a continuation this theme with decor. A sense of “understated luxury” achieved through the balance of minimalistic modern classics, functional, and muted. Every so often a piece is selected and placed to stand out and to represent the playful souls of the owners’. All of them are either already classic, or we believe would become new classics.
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