2021 best interior design – Squid Game architecture, courtesy of Netflix.
Best of 2021 – We have rounded up 2021 best interior design, including a dystopic bedroom exploring different levels of consciousness, a restaurant offering burger ‘chromatic’ experiences and a hostel nestled into a community bookstore.
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‘A Clockwork Orange’-inspired milk bar in Milan
HERBARIUM milk bar by HAED Genéve and India Madhawi @ ALCOVA, Milan.
India Madhawi and HEAD – Genève students reinterpreted the infamous Korova Milk Bar, seen in Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 movie A Clockwork Orange. At the ALCOVA exhibition during Milan Design Week, the installation “redefines contemporary interiors from iconic image culture” with a distinctly feminine touch. Bar ladies on an elevated central white bar with satin glass bubble lights and surrounded by stylish stools dispensed rice milk drinks in breasts-like ceramic cups. Read more…
Squid Game architecture and interior design
Squid Game architecture – Courtesy of Netflix.
Squid Game, Netflix’s most-watched series, features surreal architecture inspired by childhood memories, serene white and minimalistic interiors by Zaha Hadid and Santiago Calatrava. The most iconic space is the K-Pop pastel-coloured and unsettling staircases, inspired by the Relativity masterpiece by Dutch artist Escher and Boffil’s La Muralla Rosa in Spain. “Aesthetically speaking, we created places and displays making viewers think about the hidden intentions of Squid Game with us,” Explains art director Chae Kyoung-sun. Read more…
The hostel nestled into the bookstore
Capsule Hostel and Bookstore by Atelier tao+c – All photos by ©Su Shengliang, courtesy of World Interior of the Year.
Atelier tao+c conceived and created the interior design of the Capsule Hostel and Bookstore in Qinglongwu, China. The ground floor has been opened up for library and public spaces by removing the partition walls and original floors. Two independent “floating” structures are placed above the library and community bookstore. These structures are each equipped with ten capsule rooms and one bathroom. The structure replaced an entire gable wall to provide sweeping views of the surrounding natural landscape. Read more…
A burger ‘chromatic’ experience
BUN restaurant by Masquespacio in Turin – Photo by Gregory Abbate, courtesy of Masquespacio.
Masquespacio has created the interior design of the new BUN restaurant in Turin, Italy. The Spanish design studio and agency conceived a space of three colors. Guests are welcome in a green-hued central room where they can order burgers before moving to the two adjacent pink and light-blue side rooms. In the pink space, next to a sharing table, a tribune takes the central stage with a more private arched area allowing diners to sit at different levels while the blue room simulates a huge swimming pool. Read more…
‘Shop like you share on Instagram’
Qpokee’s Flagship Store by CUN Design in Beijing – Photo by CUN Design.
CUN Design created the interiors of the Chinese total brand Qpokee flagship store in Beijing, blurring the lines between Generation Z’s physical and digital shopping experience. The products are on display in modular niches, like if they were in on an Instagram grid. “We organically combined the art toy, IP color, Qpokee series, industrialization, metallic sense, and structure into the unique ‘warm industry’ style of Qpokee.” CUN Studio told Archipanic. Read more…
Capturing the ominous interiors of the Stasi’s headquarters
Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), Stasi Headquarters – Photos byDavid Altrath.
German photographer David Altrath has captured the perfectly preserved interiors of the Stasi Headquarters in Berlin, now a museum, memorial and research centre ‘against the sleep of reason. “Each room served a particular function,” Altrath told Archipanic. “On the one hand, it was the demonstration of power and the controlling of people and on the other hand, it was to provide a space for the leaders to come together and do this. Now that the building became a museum, all that is left are empty spaces, leaving a false sense of calm and quiet, similar to the feelings you might feel after a giant storm or flood wiped out an entire area.” Read more…
A bedroom to explore different levels of consciousness
THE BEDROOM Curio exhibition by Harry Nuriev at Design Miami 2021 – Photo by James Harris.
Harry Nuriev of Crosby Studios continues his recent explorations of transitory spaces that serve as a metaphor for “traveling through different layers of space, reality, and consciousness”—a theme found in Nuriev’s work. The Bedroom is a silver bedroom installation featuring a Ryokan-style mattress, situated within a zen-like cube that underscored the value of the room as a space to escape reality, meditate, experience vulnerability, and access different levels of consciousness. Read more…
2021 best interior design: all images by the studios and broadcasters.
