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Inspiring projects

  • Studio 9

    Studio 9 is a 4000 SF private multi disciplinary creative studio with state of art facilities that caters to artisanal design and crafts, music performance and production, avant guard fashion and lifestyle, creative photography and branding, food and beverage experimentation…etc. It is located in an elegantly rehabilitated industrial unit in the up-and-coming creative district of Wong Chuk Hang. Studio 9 was founded and designed by Ahlaiya Yung in 2016 as a project experimenting in ways of combining his passion for artisanal design and crafts with his love for truly authentic cultural and creative activities. There should be no boundaries between all creative disciplines. Studio 9 is an attempt to realise this ideal or at least find the knowledge and elements necessary to bring it to realisation.  

     

  • Casa Tabarelli

    Hidden in the slopes of the vineyard village of Cornaiano near Bolzano, Italy is Casa Tabarelli, a modernist masterpiece designed in 1968 by Carlo Scarpa and Sergio Los for the Tabarelli family. The spacious interior is dominated by a colorful abstract ceiling that creates rooms with varying ceiling heights. Many of the masterful works within the house combine art and function, such as the entrance gate made from orthogonal metal rods, the steel abstract kinetic sculpture, and the sliding wall with painted geometry and hinged panels. 

  • Villa for an Industrialist

    House for an Industrialist, Shenzhen, 2009. This interior renovation of a 700 m² villa embodies new ideas about craft, geometry, and ornament. Installations on the ceilings, floors, and walls are built up of custom-fabricated repetitive elements: sculptural ceramic tiles, anodized aluminum branches, lacquered hardwood spindles, marble floor tiles, woven rattan panels… hundreds of these elements are arranged in non-repetitive patterns. The visitor's experience unfolds musically as he or she explores the space. One theme that emerges is the dome: from the entry vestibule to the most private spaces, various types of domes are encountered. One goal of the project was to demonstrate the high skill level of Chinese craftspeople.

  • Casa Mollino

    Casa Mollino remained a mystery until after the death of the designer in 1973. Only in 1999 did it pass into the hands of Ferrari, who has a similarly diverse background to Mollino, having been a chemist, restaurateur and design dealer. With the help of the meticulous inventory of the property made by Mollino’s lawyers, he was able to recreate the original appearance of the apartment and open it to the public by appointment. While renovating the interiors, Ferrari discovered the cover of a book by Mollino, titled Il Messaggio Dalla Camera Oscura (‘The Message from the Dark Room’), depicting the head of an Egyptian queen. This reference to Egyptian funerary art became the key to decoding a series of symbols, which suggest Mollino’s project was conceived in the manner of a Pharaoh’s pyramid, as an intended final resting place. 

  • The American Restaurant

    An iconic design by renowned architect Warren Platner in 1974. The airy interior is set by the oak columns branching into layered flower canopies that is both decorative and functional. The pink velvet upholstery and brass lamps complete the look with beautiful contrasts. 
     

  • Maison de Verre

    Maison de Verre (House of Glass), a live/work house built bewteen 1928 to 1932 in Paris for Dr. Jean Dalsace, is a masterpiece of 20th-century modernist architecture. The design was a collaboration bewteen Pierre Chareau (lead architect and interior designer), Bernard Bijvoet (architect) and Louis Dalbet (metal craftsman). Much of the intricate moving scenery of the house was designed on site as the project developed. The beautiful interior of house is unique for the wonderful uses of various industrial materials and custom mechanical fixtures juxtaposed with traditional home furnishings all illuminated by the dramatic light glowing through the translucent glass-block façade.

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