This avant-garde restaurant is a textural tour de force!

With a gorgeous interplay of arresting textures and thoughtful design strategies, Wei Wu of IN.XDesign stuns again with the Wan Wea Restaurant in Shimao Plaza, Chengdu. In a shopping centre central to the bustling city, this 1180-square-feet restaurant captures the essence of an enticing urban life with exceptional spatial clarity. Large grey swathes reflect colours of the urban fabric backgrounding an intense palette of rugged greys, deep blood reds, and sooty blacks that anchor the restaurant, orchestrating an energetic ‘black hole’ that attracts people. Strikingly modern, the design couples contemporary aesthetics with local sensibilities. Rough and gritty black stone strips […]