The Sea Refuses No River Restaurant by Alex Jiang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
SilverInterior· 2020
The Sea Refuses No River Restaurant
by Alex Jiang
Client: Prime Interior Design
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About The Sea Refuses No River Restaurant
The Sea Refuses No River is a Teppanyaki restaurant interior located in the central area of Shanghai. The interior area is 478 square meters and the landscape area is 800 square meters. The design joins modern lines with traditional Chinese wood structure, recalling the iron window frames of Shikumen houses. Materials include copper imitating stainless steel, Hainan volcanic rock, oak wood veneer, gray marble and soft fabrics. A handmade wall carpet lines the aisle. Curved walls and a stepped ceiling suggest the movement of waves.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Sea Refuses No River Restaurant 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. The Sea Refuses No River Restaurant 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. The Sea Refuses No River Restaurant is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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We transform commercial spaces with 22+ years of expertise blending Eastern and Western design philosophies. Our Shanghai-based studio creates distinctive interiors for restaurants, hospitality venues, and retail spaces across China, bringing cultural richness and modern innovation to every project.
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- Unique Properties
- Rivers and roads integrate 2D lines on the map,just like 3D composition of nature and humanities.Between squares,integrating the modern lines with Chinese traditional wood structure,shows the spirit of iron window of Shikumen.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Interior Area：478m²
Landscape Area：800m² - Tags
- ShangHai，TheSeaRefusesNoRiver，TeppanYAKI，Landmark，Zen，Tatami，ArtDeco，Handicraft，Shikumen
- Production Technology
- Copper imitated stainless steel – the embodiment of retro feelings.
Hainan volcanic rock – the beauty of natural quality.
Oak wood veneer – the symbol of arts and humanities.
Quality of fabrics soft decoration – spirit of profession.
Gray marble – embodiment of noble quality. - Design Challenge
- Shanghai Art Deco’s spirit design symbol and ceiling detail design are the embodiment of the precision process, each step’s change size is different, fluctuating as like the wave, the pane modeling shown by the simple lines is the memory and impression of old Shanghai, the arrayed ceiling creates the environment space of ritual sense and presents the different spatial feelings.
- Research
- We show the streamline feeling for the planning of spatial moving lines,hoping to create the expression modes related to the sea.Therefore, the word “sea” is the important origin of the creative idea.The wall with mtoving line and streamline modeling in the aisle is also the extension of conception, the handcraft wall carpet on the wall is also the delicate performance of the traditional handicraft and the beauty of Chinese tradition.
- Inspiration
- Shanghai - the largest city in China is where I work in,Is a city full of emotions and integrating Chinese and western cultures,During these 22 years when I lived here, I was wandering in the lane and alley with rich Shanghai culture and feeling the development and growth of this city.
- Project Duration
- The project，“The Sea Refuses No Rive — 海纳百川” ， locates in central area in Shanghai.Started in October 2017 and finished in September 2018.
- Operation Flow
- The customer visited a Teppanyaki restaurant with tatami in US, bearing in mind constantly, the customer hopes to open a Teppanyaki restaurant in Shanghai, and thus luckily, we got the opportunity to show the design of this dining hall. With our diligent and effective communication, the final presented effect not only satisfies the customer but also creates the ultimate aesthetics of Zen, every detail is the embodiment of the professional spirit.
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