Slightly square and surrounded by walls with gates on all sides, the 485-sq.m. design-forward space crisscrosses the Chinese city in a chessboard-like layout.
Fashion designer Uma Wang is one of the most prominent sartorial creatives hailing from China and her most recent collection SS20 takes inspiration from Pompeii, a Roman civilisation destroyed by a volcano eruption and has since been frozen in time.
If Pompeii is Wang's deconstruction and restoration of history through design, then this space helmed by ATMOSPHERE Architects traces the roots of this lost civilisation through interior design: a tribute and a rebirth of the city’s history and mystery forever etched into the minds of the contemporary world.
Solemn and concise, primitive and mysterious, Tommy Yu, Chief Designer at ATMOSPHERE Architects, conveys the sense of history through the annular distribution of floor bricks, interior materials and wood elements in the space. The top light penetrates the room from above and falls on the green plants in the middle of the ground, as a metaphor for the arrival of hope after the ruins.
Wang’s Pompeii series features rare fluorescent colours, restoring the lustre of falling ash and symbolising new life. It’s reflected in the concept store through the atmospheric simplicity, the annular depth, the fitting room under the curtain shades, and the red hue recalling the volcanic eruption.
Take a look at the design:
Photographer: Chuan HE from Here Space
