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Zhang Yun's The Smell of Book Sales Office presents a breathtaking interior composition dominated by an extraordinary suspended sculptural installation that cascades through a soaring double-height…

The Smell of Book Sales Office by YLH Design is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Golden A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.


GoldInterior· 2021

The Smell of Book Sales Office

by YLH Design

Client: YLH Design

Golden A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About The Smell of Book Sales Office

The Smell of Book is a sales office interior located in Chengdu, China. The design uses the form and lines of the traditional Chinese book scroll as an art installation. The scroll shape also acts as the main circulation line, guiding visitors from the sales office on the second floor down to the model room on the first floor. Materials include mirror stainless steel, metal, acrylic, white stone, curved mirror and terrazzo. Large French windows reduce visual barriers and link the interior with the outdoor scenery.

The Recognition

About the Golden A' Design Award

The Smell of Book Sales Office is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. The Smell of Book Sales Office is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. The Smell of Book Sales Office creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.

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We transform spaces into poetic experiences that blend cultural wisdom with modern functionality. Our Beijing-based team specializes in creating interior environments that inspire and elevate daily life. From commercial spaces to hospitality projects, we bring philosophical depth and humanistic care to every design.

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Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
This project combines the elements of the book to create a scholarly atmosphere, which has enriched the core of the space. Some special materials have been used to involve multi-level aesthetic experience, which is simple but impressive, so that the minds of visitors can be washed and sorted out here. The natural form, line and format of the book scroll are used as artistic installation, which is also the main line that runs through the whole sales office. It expresses simplicity, creativity and integrity in design.
Dimensions & Packaging
20 m x 25 m x 8m
Tags
interior design, interior space, sales office, Asia, Chinese elements
Production Technology
Technology: stainless steel seamless welding, metal cutting, art hidden line fishing technology
Material: mirror stainless steel, metal, acrylic, white stone, curved mirror, terrazzo
Design Challenge
The sales office is on the second floor, while the model room is on the first room. The difficulty of the project lies in how to naturally lead customers from the second floor to the first floor to visit the model room. The design team has come up with many ways, and finally decided to use the idea of book scroll. Taking the book scroll as the space moving line, and a scenic spot, so that customers can follow the direction of the book scroll and naturally go downstairs
Research
Before the start of the project, a lot of surveys about Chinese scrolls were done, including the appearance of the scrolls and the choice of scroll text, and the display form of the scrolls has also been studied , so that this element can penetrate the entire space. Finally the desired effect has been achieved.
Inspiration
This project is inspired by the 5000-year Chinese history .The ups and downs of the book scroll are just like the waves of the long river of history. It is magnificent and solemn, and shows an artistic conception.
Project Duration
The project started in May 2020 in Chengdu China and finished in September 2020.
Operation Flow
Usually when people walk in the space, their vision tends to focus on the limited place, because there are too many visual obstacles in the space. In this project, the French windows are widely used for getting rid of too many indoor obstructions, and the style of interior design echoes with the outdoor scenery, so that people's vision in the space is very wide, there is no dead corner. People will have a more immersive and harmonious experience in the space.
Team Members
Zhang Yun
Zhang Huai
Zhang Lang
Image Credits
All photos by Silsail Vision

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