Press Release
Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Goes to Nagisa Bakery Interior Space by Katsunori Nagai
The international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Katsunori Nagai for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 21, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Nagisa Bakery Interior Space by Katsunori Nagai, designed for Nagisa Bakery, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The award was conferred within the 2024 - 2025 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 Bronze A' Design Award Explained
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
Regarding Nagisa Bakery Interior Space
Nagisa Bakery is a bakery interior in Osaka, Japan. The spatial composition expresses the themes of shore and sea through designs and colors that emphasize lines. Baguette bread is displayed like surfboards, propped against corrugated slate, a material commonly used for the roofs of beach huts. Eight shades of blue paint are applied to the ceiling to create the effect of louvers. Existing equipment and fixtures were reused, which reduced waste and construction costs. Distinct materials set the display area apart and draw attention to the products.
About Katsunori Nagai
The representative of Re+ Design Lab has been interested in architecture, interior design, crafts, art, etc., since an early age, and went on to study at an art university. As a spatial designer, he works on a wide range of spatial designs, including restaurants, retail stores, offices, homes, and hospitals. In order to give shape to the customer's ideas, he creates things carefully, one by one, like a workshop, providing customers with added value they never imagined.
Award Record
This recognition makes Katsunori Nagai 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. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Entries typically include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. Awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission 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. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated 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. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates 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, the upload of a work and the 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. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/170623
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/170623
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!170623
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/366636
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.replus-dl.com
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Nagisa Bakery Interior Space
- Function
- Interior Space
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Rosy Brown, Black, Saddle Brown, Dark Olive Green and Sienna
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Nagisa Bakery
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Katsunori Nagai
- Country
- Japan
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #170623
Credits
- Image Credits
- All photos copyright : Photographer Junichi Usui
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The spatial composition expresses the elements of "Shore" and "Sea" with designs and colors that emphasize lines. It proposed displaying the baguette bread like surfboards against corrugated slate, the type of slate used for the roofs of beach huts. Eight shades of blue louvers are planned for the ceiling. In terms of color and pitch, we expressed the beat of the chorus part with intervals and the scale with colors to give form to the melody of "Nagisa Hotel",one of the component parts.
- Inspiration
- This is a bakery in Osaka. The owner has a strong desire to bring energy to his local area, and said he wanted to open a bakery where he could bake bread every morning and have people feel energized by eating it. The owner loves surfing and the song "Nagisa Hotel" by the Japanese band Southern All Stars. In order to bring energy to his customers, he wanted to create a place that he loves, a place that makes him feel energized, so he named it "Nagisa Bakery".
- Research
- Prior to designing the interior space, a review of the local situation was conducted. The existing establishment was a butcher shop, and the specifications required for operating a bakery presented no issues. Furthermore, due to the usability of much of the existing equipment and fixtures, a decision was made to repurpose them in a new configuration. This reuse allowed for a reduction in waste and a decrease in construction costs.
- Challenge
- The most difficult part was to fulfill the client's wishes to the maximum extent possible within the limited budget. nevertheless, in order to realize the client's wishes, we painted eight different shades of blue paint on the inexpensive ceiling undercoat, which was a must-have item, to create the effect of louvers. we also rationalized costs by using mass-produced and inexpensive corrugated slate roofing material for the corrugated sheets on which the baguette bread are displayed.
- Realization and Technology
- The owner is an insurance agent who has a philosophy of being "the most energetic insurance agent in japan," and he opened a bakery out of his strong desire to bring a source of energy to the local community. Therefore, he decided to reconstruct the space of the store by using the source of energy of the owner as the spatial components (the beach, the beach house, the ingredients of , surfing, his favorite music), and to reflect the added value of the space as a new attraction.
- Operation and Interaction
- Creative measures were taken to heighten customer curiosity. Large, eye-catching fixtures were placed in the center of the sales floor, and the flagship product, baguette bread, was displayed as surfboards, propped up against corrugated slate, the material commonly used for beach hut roofs. Eight shades of blue louvers were planned for installation on the ceiling. By separating the display area from the rest of the store with distinct materials, the intent was to draw greater attention to the products.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project began in August 2024, and it was decided that the store would open in a commercial facility called Sunpia Komyoike in Sakai city, Osaka prefecture. It is scheduled to open on November 23, 2024.
- Specifications
- Room dimensions w6000mm x d12000mm x h2700mm
- Keywords
- Interior Space, Space Design, Architecture, Store Design, Interior, interior design, bakery shop, bakery, japan
