Restaurant

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Designer / Brand: Alvan Suen Work: Restaurant Classification: Interior

Camellia

Camellia is a restaurant located in a shopping mall in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The interior combines loft, modern and French styles, responding to the brand and to the mall. Pink flower walls are joined by black tones, gold trim, mirrors and arches, recalling Paris. Pink is used across the design, furniture, tableware and food, including the marble tables, chairs, benches and napkins. The shapes of the chairs and benches recall camellia petals. Antique mirrors on some walls extend the space and repeat the flower walls by reflection.

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Designer / Brand: Ouyang Tiao Work: Restaurant Classification: Interior

Xinwanxin Noodles

Xinwanxin Noodles is a restaurant interior located on the historic Nanchang Street in Wuxi. The project covers 380 square meters. The entrance keeps traditional regional features such as white walls, black tiles, bracket arches and upturned eaves. Open wooden windows and two glass doors bring sunlight into the interior. The first floor lobby uses the original glass patio of the old house, combined with glass and wood grilles that divide the space while adjusting the light. Display, retail, kitchen and seating areas are reorganized to support a self-service dining model.

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Designer / Brand: Monique Lee Work: Restaurant Classification: Interior

Xin Ming Yuen

The entrance is a parade of contrasting materials, structures, and colors. The reception area is a space of tranquil comfort. Auspicious patterns encounter playful decorations. Behind is a dynamic bar area within a resting context. Traditional Chinese character Hui pattern led lights adds a sense of futurism. Going through a delicately adorned roofed cloister is the dining area. Decorated with floral, carb fish images, embossed stained glass screens and the ancient herbalist Bai Zi cabinets, it is a visual journey through time and cultural relics in fashion.

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Designer / Brand: Variety Enterprise Co., Ltd Work: Restaurant Classification: Interior

Liberte

Liberte is a restaurant interior located in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, covering 200 square meters. The entrance omits common decorative elements, so a plain white wall draws attention, while a waterscape marks the change of space. A fluid arc wall runs from the ceiling to the floor without a terminating line. The seating is arranged like a theater, at a suitable distance from the kitchen, so staff can support the chefs and return with ease. Gray-beige and white tones with texture are applied. The design interprets freedom through simple and balanced elements.

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Designer / Brand: Ao Han Work: Restaurant Classification: Interior

Huixian Lou

Huixian Lou is a restaurant located on Beijing Financial Street. The project covers 860 square meters. The exterior is wrapped in a pale gray metal grid that forms several hazy layers between the street and the dining areas. These layers create a calm transition and leave the noise of the city outside. The interior recalls the elegance of Song dynasty style through a modern expression of traditional culture. One hall is six meters high and shows a video artwork on the wall. A stage surrounded by semi-translucent gauze hosts harp performances each evening.

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Designer / Brand: Novus Penetralis Limited Work: Restaurant Classification: Interior

Arena Kitchen

Arena Kitchen is a restaurant interior located in a convention and exhibition centre in Hong Kong. The open floor plan holds an indoor dining and bar area and an outdoor cafe space, set apart by marble tiles and a wave-like partition. Curves inspired by the sea run from the multi-level ceiling to the projection wall, the bar counter and the furniture. Wood veneer panels and marble tabletops are paired with a neutral palette to add warmth. Dimmable LED lights are used, and the movable furniture can be rearranged to suit different events and group sizes.

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Designer / Brand: Fabio Su Work: Restaurant Classification: Interior

Ukiyoe

Uphold the concept of "handling complexity by simplicity". The exterior of the building uses wooden louvers to embody the image of mountain and forest culture, and the expression of Japanese "shaded" thinking. The designer used the work of Ukiyo, reflecting Japanese culture; the private box brings out the glorious feeling of the Edo period. Subverting the conveyor belt sushi dining style, the designer uses a double track design and narrow the distance between the chefs and guests in the ltabasahi area.

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Designer / Brand: OD Studio Work: Restaurant Classification: Interior

Champs Elysees

Champs Elysees is a buffet restaurant interior located in a five-star hotel in Kaohsiung. The streetscape of Paris serves as the design inspiration, creating an elegant and textured atmosphere. A suspended installation of bamboo and old paper, dyed and pasted layer by layer with traditional glutinous rice glue, hangs above the dining area as a visual landmark. Stone, metal, wood grain brick and veneer board are used throughout. The food area is placed in the centre, so walking distances from all seats are equal, and seating ranges from double seats to private rooms for six people.

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Designer / Brand: Peihe Xie Work: Restaurant Classification: Interior

Gentle L By Alan Yu

Gentle L by Alan Yu is a French restaurant located in Shenzhen, China. The interior covers 800 square metres and departs from the traditional restaurant layout. At the centre of the space stands a large steel column clad in hand-made wrinkled aluminium, and the wrinkles soften the column and form a visual highlight. Curved stainless steel screens separate the private rooms and keep a clear field of vision, so service is given without disturbing diners. The semi-enclosed plan offers privacy and changing views.

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Designer / Brand: Above Space Work: Restaurant Classification: Interior

Nanxiang Bailian

Nanxiang Bailian is a restaurant interior design covering 690 square meters in Fuzhou, China. The interior combines references to traditional Cantonese design with a modern architectural style. Terrazzo is used as the main surface material for its luster and texture. Painted wooden screens add a sense of warmth and enrich the color scheme of the whole space. The indoor lighting uses several groups of point light sources, so that every table is well lit. The number and position of the partitions were adjusted to keep the space open while protecting the privacy of diners.

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Designer / Brand: Minus Workshop Work: restaurant Classification: Interior

Dabpa-Shatin

Dabpa-Shatin is a restaurant interior located on the ground floor of a shopping mall in Hong Kong. The plan follows a cell-like shape with 360 degree circulation, so staff can reach every table from the kitchen with ease. The dining area measures 2233 square feet. Each banquette seat is placed beside a large window scene with a potted landscape, which gives diners privacy and a personal view. Moss plates are inlaid across the surfaces. The design links indoor and outdoor space and reads as a garden rather than a shop.

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Designer / Brand: Liu Haodong Work: Restaurant Classification: Interior

Nanning Haoyouyuan State Banquet

Nanning Haoyouyuan State Banquet is a restaurant interior designed for banquets in Nanning City, China. The layout draws on the traditional Chinese three-in-one courtyard system, which is deconstructed and reorganized into a semi-enclosed and transparent sequence of spaces. Large curved forms and metal grids divide the areas, so views remain connected while zones stay distinct. The facade combines a stainless steel structure with a large glass curtain wall, mirrored in a pool. Black, white and bronze gold tones are joined by wood finishes for a simple and elegant result.

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