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Kuan Ceh-Hsiang and Andrea Ciccolo Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Le Templer Boutique Shop in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Kuan Ceh-Hsiang and Andrea Ciccolo 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/ Le Templer Boutique Shop by Kuan Ceh-Hsiang and Andrea Ciccolo, designed for Aak Design studio, has been granted the Bronze 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
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.
About Le Templer Boutique Shop
Le Templer is a boutique department store interior located in Shanghai, covering 2069 square meters with a ceiling height of 4.6 meters. The design explores collapse and recombination, using fragmented walls and tilted surfaces to express subversion. The layout stays flexible so that art events can be held at any time. Display props are shaped as sculptural objects, giving each area a distinct character and improving the presentation of merchandise. The space brings fashion, art, and design together as a three-dimensional magazine that visitors can enter.
About Kuan Ceh-Hsiang and Andrea Ciccolo
Aak is a group of boutique interior design teams and dedicated to designing thinking. The main designers have professional backgrounds in architecture, fashion, and video. During the design process, Aak constantly tries all kinds of media and hope to bring more impacts design thinking to the commercial space. Aak is committed to finding a balance between business activities and design performance. While creates space for stylish products, Aak delves into consumer behavior. Therefore, a boutique space full of expensive materials is not what Aak wants to create. Aak cares more about the density of design and the depth of thinking. And a space with soul is Aak's ultimate goal.
Award Record
Kuan Ceh-Hsiang and Andrea Ciccolo 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/104964
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/104964
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!104964
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/275436
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.pinterest.com/AAKShanghai/le-templer/
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Le Templer Boutique Shop
- Function
- Boutique Shop
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Gray, Dark Olive Green, Silver, Dark Slate Gray and Light Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Aak Design studio
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Kuan Ceh-Hsiang and Andrea Ciccolo
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #104964
Credits
- Team
- Andrea Ciccalo and Kuan Ceh-Hsiang
- Image Credits
- #1/Photographer Kuan Ceh-Hsiang/Le TEMPLER/2019 #2/Photographer Kuan Ceh-Hsiang/Le TEMPLER/2019 #3/Photographer Kuan Ceh-Hsiang/Le TEMPLER/2019 #4/Photographer Kuan Ceh-Hsiang/Le TEMPLER/2019 #5/Eeditor Kuan Ceh-Hsiang/Le TEMPLER/2019
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Le Templer combines the meanings of Temper and Temple. This is a department store covering more than 2000 square meters. Let fashion, art, and design meet here. What Aak want to create is not a boutique full of gorgeous decoration, but want to create a three- dimensional magazine that can enter and experience.
- Inspiration
- Aak is trying to find a spatial form to express the dialogue between fashion and state of art. Aak challenges the stability of space, creating a series of overturning, fracture, collapse, unstable. We hope to find a form again through the means of destruction. Decompose and reorganize spatial elements. It is like conducting an explosion experiment, the final dust settled and returned to stability. The form is transformed by disintegration and the work at the temple of fashion is in progress.
- Research
- The design goal of Le Templer is mainly to enhance the aesthetic, cultural, artistic, and educational values that fashion shops should have. In terms of space planning, Aak thinks about the possibility of holding more art events for the boutique store space. With the operation of the project Le Templer in China. Aak found that in today's environment full of multimedia information, customer's experience of space is like the new and loathe the old. Therefore, a space plan that can be quickly adjusted becomes the best way to respond to the market, which also proves the successful experiment of Le Templer.
- Challenge
- Challenging the force of gravity. The project was born from the paradoxical idea of collapsing a new place before even seeing it finished. The idea was to elaborate the fragments, cracks, structures, the upside down aesthetics. Walls and ceilings are "blocked" just before the final collapse. Regenerating and being reborn were then the next steps. So the environments change from one state to another, like a "gradient" from a strong to a softer shock wave effect.
- Realization and Technology
- The construction technology is roughly the same as that used in general interior decoration projects. The main difference is that we are more like producing artwork. Each display prop has a unique character and conveys different meanings in each area.
- Operation and Interaction
- Le Templer is not a traditional shop of fashion boutique. It provides both online and offline diversified service content. It also regularly organizes art events. Le Templer provides an exchange platform that combines art, fashion, and consumer information. Through the Radio Frequency Identification system records and analyzes consumers' purchase preferences and provides the latest fashion information online at any time.
- Project Duration and Location
- This project is located in Shanghai, officially started in July 2019 and finished in December 2019. The total area is 2069 square meters, which only lasted 1.5 months of construction time.
- Specifications
- Interior Design Area: 2069 square meters Ceiling Height:4.6m
- Keywords
- templer, art, installation, Fashion, education
