TAO Residence locates in Lincoln Park real estate, Beijing. The owner hopes this life space contains comfort and controllability, fill with the exploration of freedom and interaction. “Creation is the precision of art and the passion of science” ——Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Project name: Tao Residence
Studio Name: HONG Designworks
Location: Beijing, China
Design Company: HONG Designworks
Main Designer: Dang, Ming /Li, Dandi
Interior Design: HONG Designworks
Completion Time: 2021/01
Project area: 170 m²
Photography: Tan, Xiao / Ten Photography Studio

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View ©Tan, Xiao / Ten Photography Studio

HONG Designworks combines elements of mechanical technology and the fashion of art to customize this private space. The characteristics and habits of the owner would construct this space and provide life energy infinitely. The space reveals a brief composition with mechanical aesthetics. Classic color matching——black, white, and gray cooperate with leather, metal, and specular texture.

The designer optimizes this 170 square meter apartment based on the living and vocational characteristics of the owner. The whole space is subtly divided by bar counters, sofas, shelves, and partitions. This concise style design conforms to the aesthetic taste and lifestyle of contemporary urban elite groups.

The installation works on the wall come from the artist Yu Yang, who allows the lines to acquire the rhythm of the music in the combination of occasional and minimalism. The collision of logos and art brings more dimensional enjoyment and constructs harmonious and unified contemporary aesthetic order.

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Seating Area ©Tan, Xiao / Ten Photography Studio

To modern people, personality and environment are always in flux. The status of the house also needs a sense of “fluidity” to give people a more comfortable living experience.

Stepping into the bedroom with light gray background paved by Pandomo and stone, the fusion of metal, mirror, leather, and other materials brings a balanced aesthetic perception. The lamps enhance the sense of the depth of the space, creating a deep and charming spatial level.

The designer creates a living environment ——flexibility and balance of work and life by optimizing space utilization, light environment, and ventilation efficiency. The space receives more diversified functional systems and visual levels. To post-epidemic era, this guide for the concept of housing looks forward to a more free and balanced urban residential housing pattern.

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Bathroom ©Tan, Xiao / Ten Photography Studio

Hong Designworks, founded in 2002, is a local diversified design company based on international perspectives. Sevice domain involves offices, commercial real estate, boutique hotels, health care and medical care, public culture, and other types of spaces. Using precise control to achieve the goal of projects effectively. Presenting international and diversified works by providing professional services and cutting-edge design.

Dang Ming once went to Düsseldorf, Germany for advanced study and research under German master designer Professor Helfried Hagenberg. He also taught at the Art and Design College of Xi’an University of Science and Technology. His advantage represents by integrating international vision and local accumulation to create an urban space that stimulates sensory experience. DangMing was invited to serve as a judge for the 2021 Dutch Frame Awards and was selected as one of the 40 most influential young designers under the age of 40 in the Asian region.

His design works have been collected by KLINGSPOR MUSEUM OFFENBACH in Germany and selected for the 2010 German Chinese Design Biennale. Many works of HONG Designworks have repeatedly won domestic and international design awards, including 2021 Red Dot Award, 2019 German IF Design Award, Architecture, and Interior Category Award, 2019 Dutch World Architecture Festival INSIDE Interior Festival Office Award, 2019 Italian A’design International Design Award Silver Award, etc.

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