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Emperor's Time Machine Kiʻi Kālai by Lin Lin

Emperor's Time Machine Kiʻi Kālai by Lin Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Hao in Hoʻolālā Hana Noʻeau a me Hoʻokomo Hana Noʻeau Competition Category.


HaoHana Noʻeau· 2020

Emperor's Time Machine Kiʻi Kālai

by Lin Lin

Client: Marriott Group W hotel Xi'an

A' Design Award Hao Winner in Hana Noʻeau Category

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The Design

About Emperor's Time Machine Kiʻi Kālai

ʻO kēia kiʻi kālai ʻia o ka mīkini manawa a ka Emepika ʻo ia hoʻi ka manawa i hoʻohiki ʻia ai ka mīkini o ka Emepera i ka huakaʻi. Kūkulu ʻia ke kaʻa e ka hoʻohana ʻana i nā loea sculptural ʻē aʻe e like me nā mea e like me ke kila kila, ka kukui kukui a me ka poli-chrome. Hāʻawi ka hopena o kēia mau kumuwaiwai i ka manaʻo o ke kiʻi o ke kala. ʻO kēia kiʻi kālala kekahi o nā kiʻi ʻano kiʻi nui o ka hōkele Xiʻan W. Ke hōʻike nei i ka noiʻi i kēia pāhana i kahi kikoʻī i ka manaʻo o kahi ʻano ʻoluʻolu maikaʻi i hōʻike ʻia i ka manaʻo o Tang Dynasty.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Hao

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Emperor's Time Machine Kiʻi Kālai i ka A' Design Award Hao, he ʻike hoʻohanohano i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā maikaʻi e hoʻokō ana i nā koi ʻoihana a ʻoihana hana i manaʻo ʻia mai nā mea hoʻokumu i hana maikaʻi ʻia. Hōʻike nā lanakila Hao i ka mākau nui, ka loea kiʻekiʻe, ka ʻike akamai a me ka hiki hana noʻeau o ka poʻe i hana iā lākou. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Emperor's Time Machine Kiʻi Kālai he mea hoʻokumu i mahalo nui ʻia, hoʻohiwahiwa ʻia a aloha ʻia e pono a hou. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Hao e hoʻohui ana i nā hana maikaʻi loa o ka ʻoihana a loaʻa nā ʻano ʻenehana mākaukau i hui pū ʻia me ka ʻike hana a me ka makakoho. Mahalo ʻia ka hoʻolālā Emperor's Time Machine Kiʻi Kālai no kona nānā pono a ua hoʻolālā ʻia e hāʻawi i nā hoʻomaikaʻi ola e kōkua ai i ka hana ʻana i ka honua i wahi maikaʻi aku.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
In the fictional time, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty sat on the time machine, curious about it and travel time to the modern century. His car is combined with wheels and jets which is a interesting contemporary art installation. It is like a time machine that dramatically landed in W. The emperor who stepped on the skateboard wondered where he is. Image the pink flowers of the sky are falling around the car. Chinese contemporary artists and international graffiti artists have worked hard together for several months.
Dimensions & Packaging
W4140 mm*D2510mm*H3150mm
Tags
Local art, Hotel art, Fun, Attracted
Production Technology
Stainless steel, Graffiti
Design Challenge
The land of peach blossoms , peach trees, peach blossoms, peaches, and the peach seeds are infinitely transformed. With the contemporary art landscape that will constitutes the architectural space.
Research
A wormhole appeared in parallel time and space between Xi’an W and Tang Dynasty. We use artistic imagery built to instantly enter the Tang Dynasty. With hundreds of dancing horses, strolling in Chang’an, listening to music, watching from the distance of the smile of the big Ming Palace’s tail, closely watching the Danfengmen’s peach petals flying. Thus, Xi’an W, it is a beautiful floating sky garden.
Inspiration
Xi'an W is at the beginning of the great silk road, full of creative art potential, we study through the Tang Dynasty with great enthusiasm and curious. With the vivid culture, we create the unique story of if and tells people a wonderfrul story. This work is inspired by the Emperor's trip mode, we combined the modern idea with it and created this time machine car just let guests feel like the emperor is driving it from Tang Dynasty to our century.
Project Duration
The project started in the summer of 2017 in Xi'an and finished in August 2018 in Xi'an. By August 2019, the W Hotel has been open for one year.
Operation Flow
This sculpture combined with art and fun, gtuests will attract by its interesting shape, and it is just like a time machine that will make all guests will like to travel back to Tang Dynasty, but with its modern express, guests can not help to take photos, so it could become a hot spot in W hotel. Pepole would love to share this sculpture to their friends.
Patents
Patented: Emperor's Time Machine, Patent Number: ZL 2018 3 0759148.2. Patent Holder: Lin Lin, Year:2018, Jurisdiction: Shenzhen, China. For copyrights: Copyrights belong to Lin Lin, 2018
Team Members
Atgbeyond Artistic Team
Creative Director Lin Lin

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