Press Release
Stephen Kuo Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for Taipei Eros Hair Salon in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Stephen Kuo acknowledged 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 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Taipei Eros Hair Salon by Stephen Kuo, designed for Materiality Design. 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
Regarding Taipei Eros Hair Salon
The hair salons is based on the geometry of black, white, and grey colors. The gestures of hair-cutting are translated into the massing of the sculptural entities. The triangular motif shapes the functional cubes and planes from ceiling to floors through the actions of piling, cutting, and sewing. The light bars embedded in the dividing lines contributes to numerous lighting belts, serving as supplemental lighting while solving the condition of the lowered ceiling. They extend and meander with the reflection of the large mirror, shuttling freely between the planes and the three-dimensionality.
About Stephen Kuo
M.Design contributes the most professional and comprehensive service of architecture, space and interior design. All booking projects designed by the chief designer. In addition, the chief designer insists to lead the team on fully communicating with the clientele in the design process and carry out all the ideas accurately and completely. Thoroughly concentrate on the limited amount booking design cases.
Award Record
Stephen Kuo is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
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/101125
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/101125
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!101125
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/273476
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.mdesign.com.tw/portfolio_02_23.html
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Taipei Eros Hair Salon
- Function
- Hair Salon
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Gray and Light Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Materiality Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Stephen Kuo
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #101125
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer Yana Zhezhela / Alek Vatagin, Taipei EROS Hair Salon, 2016.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- In order to make it an innovative, fashionable, and enduring place, They integrate regional characters into the design. The geometry of black, white, and grey colors transform the layers of the space while ensuring its functionality. Here the framed landscape becomes a diorama with flowing junctures of inside and outside that echoes the essence of hair design.
- Inspiration
- The whitewashed background refers to the pure motivation of the brand. The gestures of hair-cutting are translated into the massing of the sculptural entities. Here, light defines the threshold between the tangible and the intangible realms and therefore becomes the index for circulation and division in the space.
- Research
- As a leading brand among the hair salons, they treat the physical space of the shop as the embodied identity at the fringe of the downtown Taipei.
- Challenge
- They also extend and meander with the reflection of the large mirror surface, shuttling freely between the planes and the three-dimensionality.
- Realization and Technology
- The triangular motif shapes the functional cubes and planes from ceiling to floors through the actions of piling, cutting, and sewing.
- Operation and Interaction
- In contrast with the stability of the seating area, the layered and displaced vision integrates and enriches the space. The juxtaposition of the movement and stillness defines the singular dynamics of the hair salon.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in February 2016 in Tapei city and finished in June 2016 in Tapei city.
- Specifications
- An area of space is 198 square meters.
- Keywords
- salon, innovative, fashionable, white, light, art
