By Savitha Hira
Photography: Xu
Xu-Jun; courtesy the designer
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Feeding on the quest for a unique
dining experience, Yunnan, China’s Pu Zao Restaurant is a cocoon of primitive
pleasures…
Breaking free from conventional design typology, Interior
designer, Xu Xu-Jun of Yiduan Shanghai Interior Design has simulated the feel
of a leisurely row-boat ride lulling along a meandering river as the thematic
for the restaurant in Kunming, Yunnan.
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Using the starting point as water, which the designer, very
quirkily arrives at from the premise that “a good diet is a source of life; no diet
without water; water makes people associate with boats; and, presumptuously,
eating on a boat is a lovely thing!” he designs tables that look like boat
bottoms, some with partitions; and keeping the ambience in sync, creates an
emblematically rustic envelope, augmented by the cropped simulation of hillside
cultivation.
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The seating arrangement is randomized with careful
selection of tables for two’s, four’s and more. A few live row boats constitute
live-wire entertainment as they underline the direct connect to the thematic. A
staggered floor anoints the design vocabulary of a riverfront, with pebbles in
the flooring, taking one close to the riverbed feel. The space is planned along
meandering spaces that add on to milieu.
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The ambience with its random live boats builds on the feel
of Jiangnan water towns, evoking a sense of romance. The huge boat mounted as a highlight and mud-wall
terraces on all sides, together with natural scenarios such as that of the
elevated dining area on mountain cableways, rough granite handrail etc… reflect
and fit the theme, which seems to reinstate old Chinese wisdom - cook delicious
food with a simple and sincere heart!
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Fact File:
Chief Designer: Xu Xu-Jun
Design Team: Xu Xu-Wei, Chang Tao, Zhang Qiang-Long
Design Company: Yiduan Shanghai Interior Design
(www.yd-d.net)
Location: 4F, Tongde
Plaza, Kunming, Yunnan, China
Area: 550 sq m
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