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Devesh Pratyay Receives the Golden A' Design Award for After Life Restaurant in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Devesh Pratyay of Nexus Design recognized for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ After Life Restaurant by Devesh Pratyay of Nexus Design has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Golden A' Design Award Explained
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
More About After Life Restaurant
After Life is a themed restaurant and bar located in Downtown Dubai. The venue covers 500 square meters of interior space with an attached open balcony of 150 square meters. The entrance forms a tunnel with a mountain-like wall, engraved Babylonian script panels, burnt candles on a shelf and rock-shaped crystals hanging from the ceiling. A foyer with a driftwood tree and a large log chair leads into the main hall. The island bar appears carved from stone and is marked by a serpentine crystal installation of 30 meters. Rustic Indian sandstone covers the floor in a random pattern.
About Devesh Pratyay
NEXUS design a multi-disciplinary design team involved in realising interiors that fulfil our clients’ functional and emotional requirements, conceptualising and planning urban spaces and architecture, ideating & developing products & packaging that contributes to our society, developing retail spaces & vm management solutions... and above all - sharing our ideas which might make a difference
About Nexus Design
engaged in the fields of interior, architectural design and product design.
Award Record
Devesh Pratyay of Nexus Design is a winner of 44 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted between the 2014 - 2015 and the 2019 - 2020 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award
The A' Interior Design Award is an international interior design competition recognizing good interior designs by interior designers and architects worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/103533
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/103533
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!103533
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/140890
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.nexusdzn.com
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- After Life Restaurant
- Function
- Restaurant
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Black, Saddle Brown, Sienna, Dim Gray and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Devesh Pratyay
- Country
- India
- Brand
- Nexus Design
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #103533
Credits
- Team
- Devesh Bhatia and Pratyay Chakrabarti
- Image Credits
- Devesh Bhatia
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The entrance is themed into a galley way has a wall made to feel like a mountain wall with a shelf placed with some burnt out candles and crystals hanging above, low enough just so that they don't touch your head but give a feel that they would, symbolising the need to always protect yourself from the hardships of life. The entrance foyer is done one with a drift wood tree trunk and a huge log wood chair that symbolises the arrival into the world of after life. The main restaurant is done with picture portraits of different people with varied facial expressions depicting the joys and sorrows and the tiny things that we missed out.
- Inspiration
- There is life…Afterlife. A life that is beautiful, that has what we missed out in life. Life was happening to us all the while we were making other plans. There was always something that we missed out when we just thought that life was just about to begin, there was always just some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first. Some unfinished business. Some debt still to be paid and then life will begin. Lest we never realise that was life. Afterlife is all about taking those wrong turns, talking to strangers, opening unmarked doors and going into a field and finding out what that group of people are doing there.
- Research
- research was conducted to analyse specific use of materials in the project. A beginning of understanding of the concept of the theme stemed from the textual reading of a book by sri aurobindo "the life divine"
- Challenge
- The most challenging part of any concept based design comes to choosing the right material for what the design has been envisioned. each and every material chosen right from the sandstone flooring, light fixtures, stone walls and Babylonian script wall panels had to to be done exactly as visualized in the design drawings for this design to become a reality.
- Realization and Technology
- The design being based on a strong conceptual note required the place to be done up in materials that were earthy and a bit rustic looking. we choose to use fibre reinforced plastic for modeling the stone walls used as panelling material for the bar counter and the walls. Avery rustic Indian sandstone was used for flooring and the flooring has been done in a slightly random pattern with large gaps/grooves between the stones to give a look of certain randomness in uniformity.
- Operation and Interaction
- The experience to after life starts right from the main entry of the restaurant that has been modeled into a mountain walled space with rock shaped podium and loose rocks laid around at the entrance.The main entry has been modeled into a small tunnel that is paneled with engraved Babylonian script on one side and mountain wall on the other side with s shelf that has some burnt candles placed on it. the ceiling here is adorned with a rock shaped crystals that hang at the lowest point at 6'-6" from the floor just barely enough to provide the head height of walking in. a generous foyer is provided at the end of this tunnel with a large chair and a standing tree of drift wood.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was started in November 2019 and inaugurated in march 2019. Afterlife is located at the level 3, Souk Al Bahar, Downtown, Dubai, U.A.E.
- Specifications
- This property is 500 Sq.mt. covered space and 150 sq.mt of open balcony attached.
- Keywords
- Restaurant, bar, night club, dance, disco, downtown dubai, dubai UAE
