The
main entry is characterized by a large steel funnel, serving as a transition
element from the urban context to the exhibition space. The shape of the entry
tube also serves as a means of emphasizing the arrival into the 3 story
exhibition hall where the visitors introverted journey begins. The staircase
wrapping the interior of the main exhibition space leads the visitor throughout
the multiple levels of display where the furniture can be experienced from
varying spatial relationship and viewed form different vantage points and
voyeuristic snippets of retail display. This journey is accentuated as the
visitor climbs higher through the gallery levels by the seven large openings in
the roof which serve to allow daylight into the exhibition space while at once
generating a moment of visual release from within the introverted exhibition
environment. Design Republic Qingpu store is located on the first floor, with a
total area of 2,000 sqm. Design Republic offers a unique collection of products
created by the world’s best design talents collaborates with many designers
both foreign and local to create products that will explore a new modern
Chinese aesthetic. Design Republic stands for a new birth of life and style. At
its foundation, it is a republic of life – life that creates meaning and
understanding through its relationship to objects of habitation. Seeking to
explore the relationship between people and the simple objects they use in life
– a plate, a teacup, a chair; it is here where we discover the beauty of
everyday life. Design Republic is also a republic of style – style that creates
new ideologies in design, retail, and merchandising concepts embodying a
distinctive aesthetic for contemporary China. It crosses traditional boundaries
to merge old and new, traditional and modern, opulent and austere, to
ultimately create a dynamic platform of design.
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