Mani & K Interior Design 인터뷰

This design focuses on a unit for solo living, we adopting a human-centric design principles that prioritise comfort and calming atmospheres were utilized,while rooting the aesthetic in a timelessness and drawing inspiration from the landscapes of nature,including natural stone,bamboo,siberian crane ,and forest.To establish a connection with nature,we uses a rustic wood-inspired design theme to transform different spaces and the green-label qualified and low-formaldehyde construction materials .

The production and realization technology for this project is a fusion of traditional craftsmanship and modern element.The curved carpentry works require skilled expertise and experience.

The challenge was to maximizing spaciousness towards a small-scale space. The shaping of the social area: The social area has a big beam. To minimize the abruptness and oppressiveness, the design team wrapped it with a curved shape to emphasize the spaciousness of the space.

MANI&K INTERIOR DESIGN is a company in Hong Kong specializing in interior design and renovation projects. We focuses on designing residential, commercial, and office spaces, including renovation projects and custom furniture.The mission of MANI&K INTERIOR DESIGN is to create comfortable, practical, and beautiful spaces through creative designs. Upholding values of integrity, quality, and excellence, the company continuously strives for excellence to offer the best indoor design experience to its customers.

Material: Glass that forgets it’s fragile.

We’ve been using a German-engineered laminated glass with embedded titanium filaments,it cracks dramatically under stress but won’t shatter, turning structural failure into living sculpture. There’s something poetic about a material that embraces its vulnerability as a feature.

I’m most creative when I’m almost too deep in it— When a client says ‘No way,’ and suddenly my brain flips into survival mode, hacking out solutions I’d never have thought of in a ‘safe’ design process."

I design spaces like a composer writes scores—with rigorous attention to time (how users' experience unfolds minute-by-minute), texture (materials), and tonality. That’s the heart of my focus: designing behavior, not just surfaces."

When I catch users interacting with the space in ways we didn’t anticipate—a child tracing the grooves of a wall we designed for acoustics, or strangers naturally gathering in a corner meant only as circulation space.

Makes a design successful, it's measured in the unplanned moments that happen after. For eg: Mutates,when users hack it—hanging coats on a sculptural installation, turning a hallway into an impromptu meeting spot.

I hunt inspiration in the gaps between:

1.What materials pretend to be vs. what they ache to become

2.How spaces are programmed vs. how bodies actually move

Style is the enemy of relevance.

What I practice is contextual alchemy. My approach rejects signature aesthetics in favor of three principles: 1. Anti-Styling 2. Human Forensic Design 3. Controlled Decay Engineering

If your first 100 projects will suck. The trick is to make each failure usefully different from the last. The industry doesn’t need more ‘good’ designers, it needs more dangerously curious ones.

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