Bean to Bar Lounge Lounge by Riki Watanabe is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
SilverInterior· 2020
Bean to Bar Lounge Lounge
Client: Joke
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About Bean to Bar Lounge Lounge
An important element of this design was to bring out the appeal of the materials used. The main material used was western red cedar, which is also used in their first store in Japan. As a way of showing the material, Riki Watanabe stacked up a mosaic pattern by piling together pieces one by one like a parquet, making use of the essence of materials uneven colors. Despite using the same materials, by cutting them out, Riki Watanabe was successfully able to vary the expressions depending on the viewing angles.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Bean to Bar Lounge Lounge is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Bean to Bar Lounge Lounge is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Bean to Bar Lounge Lounge is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
Riki Watanabe took inspiration from DandeLion chocolate approach to materials, especially their relationship to cacao, believing that was the best way to express the brand.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The most important element of this project was to bring out the best and unexpected charms of the materials used. he wanted to create a store that was unlike anything we had ever seen before, while maintaining our brand image.
How long did it take you to design this particular concept?
It took two weeks for the concept and two months in total for the shop to be completed.
Behind the Design
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- Unique Properties
- Bean to Bar chocolate specialty store DandeLion chocolate in San Francisco. Bean to Bar Lounge, Japan first concept shop, is a tasting lounge, where They can enjoy single origin chocolate sweets from each production area.
The most important element of this project was to bring out the best and unexpected charms of the materials used.Riki Watanabe believes that was the best way to express the store. - Dimensions & Packaging
- FLOOR AREA 49.20 square metre
- Tags
- cafe, Lounge, chocolate,
- Production Technology
- The main material used was western red cedar, which is also used in their first store in Japan. It was vital to maintain a level of consistency for the brand's image in Japan.As a way of showing the material, he stacked up a mosaic pattern by piling together pieces one by one like a parquet, making use of the essence of the western red cedar uneven colors.Despite using the same materials, by cutting them out, he was successfully able to vary the expressions depending on the viewing angles.
- Design Challenge
- Riki Watanabe challenged he combined the three requirements of unlikely use of material, craftsmanship, and cuteness in a small space and to bring out the brand colors in a meaningful way.
- Research
- Riki Watanabe researched brands approach to materials, especially their relationship to cacao, believed that was the best way to express the brand.
- Inspiration
- Riki Watanabe took inspiration from DandeLion chocolate approach to materials, especially their relationship to cacao, believing that was the best way to express the brand.
- Project Duration
- The project started in October 2018 in Tokyo Japan and finished in February 2019 in Tokyo Japan.
- Operation Flow
- Bean to Bar chocolate specialty store Dandelion chocolate in San Francisco. Bean to Bar Lounge, Japan's first concept shop, is a tasting lounge , where They can enjoy single origin chocolate sweets from each production area.
- Image Credits
- #1,Photographer Masato Kawano
#2,Photographer Masato Kawano
#3,Photographer Masato Kawano
#4,Photographer Masato Kawano
#5,Photographer Masato Kawano
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