Press Release
Sense Hair Studio by Xiang Ji Wins the A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Xiang Ji acknowledged for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Sense Hair Studio by Xiang Ji, designed for Neo Design, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the A' Design Award
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
More About Sense Hair Studio
Sense is a hair studio interior designed as an expressive space rather than a standard commercial salon. The concrete surfaces of the original old building are retained and combined with new materials, including a large area of white stone coating. The contrast between old texture and new finish gives the space its character. The layout avoids complex circulation and links waiting, changing clothes, hair washing and hairdressing in one direct sequence. Light and shadow allow a clear visual connection from every seat. The intent is to offer visitors more than hairdressing alone.
About Xiang Ji
The founder of NEO DESIGN, a conservative "idealist", defines the design as "the immersive experience that seeks to balance between restricted expression and uninhibited ink". He firmly believes that only when he put himself into the spatial scene will the designed works release emotions.Through space, feel life, and life itself is a kind of aesthetics, natural beauty, behavior beauty. The modern rhythm of everything is very fast, fast up easy to ignore some perceptual things. Time goes by, the space can slow down however, read in quiet and peaceful circumstances vernal breeze, evening morning sunshine, feel the change of the four seasons, the warmth of human feelings.
Award Record
With this recognition, Xiang Ji is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
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/107508
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/107508
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!107508
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/280803
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Sense Hair Studio
- Function
- Hair Studio
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Gray, Silver, Dim Gray, Dark Gray and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Neo Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Xiang Ji
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #107508
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Designers don’t take it as a traditional commercial space designed. Besides the necessary functions, Designers pay more attention to her artful expressiveness and emotional interaction. Designers hope all the people can get more surprises except hairdressing itself.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration comes from Istoria hotel in Santorini. Sometimes, the moment of wonderful things skipping ahead attracts us a lot. If you can not stand in front of her immediately, Then you can draw her out. That's the designer's special insistence for niceness.
- Research
- By reorganizing the store's space, the designer creates a space that meets the needs of the target customer group, breaks the boring pattern of traditional beauty stores, and helps the brand to further enhance and expand the business.
- Challenge
- In order to have the same texture as the concrete of the original building, we made a lot of discussions on the shape of the reworked concrete wall, including the proportion of materials and the shade of color. It was found that no matter how we distressed the wall, it was still not comparable to the one polished by the years.
- Realization and Technology
- Retaining all the old building's texture and mixing together new materials can produce a different chemical reaction. Maybe she is contradictory, she is opposed, but they are dependent in the end.
- Operation and Interaction
- We pay more attention to let all people that sit at any angle in this space feel the direct visual communication of beautiful things.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in April 2020 in Jiangsu and finished in May 2020 in Jiangsu.
- Specifications
- We did not do complicated moving lines in spatial planning. What we want to express are directed interactions, such as waiting, changing clothes, washing head and hairdressing, writing at one's stretch.
- Keywords
- Texture, Light And Shadow, Mottled, Sense Of Ritual, Space
