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Cafe Ephemera

Limtaehee Design Studio

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JURY VOTES
Restaurant
6.00
6.85
6.04
6.47
6.34
Frederik Bellermann
Frederik Bellermann Strategic Marketing Manager at Wilkhahn Wilkening+Hahne
6.31
6.38
6.1
6.67
6.37
Sandra Adrian Asplund
Sandra Adrian Asplund Creative Director at Asplund Collection Stockholm
I like that The vitrine cabinets as...
6.26
6.81
6.4
6.05
6.38
Guillermo Blanco
Guillermo Blanco Design Director at Worldesignteam
6.37
7.08
5.89
6.36
6.43
James Dilley
James Dilley Director | Head of Hospitality and Interior Design at Jestico + Whiles
4.02
6.67
4.02
5.81
5.13
Paulo Rocha
Paulo Rocha Partner at  KPMB Architects
6
7
6
5.5
6.13
Luisa Norbis
Luisa Norbis Interior Designer and Journalist at Luisa Norbis
6.6
7.79
6.26
6.67
6.83
Nathan Allen
Nathan Allen Head of Global Sustainability Programs & Partnerships at Google
5.51
6.33
5.67
6.31
5.96
Ava Watson
Ava Watson Multidisciplinary Designer at Ava Watson
6.17
6.1
5.74
6.24
6.06
Ricardo Seola
Ricardo Seola Creative Director and Photography Professor at Ricardo Seola and NABA Milano
7.31
7.52
7.95
7.24
7.51
Wang Xiaodong
Wang Xiaodong Principal at Zhejiang University Architectural Design and Research Institute
6.28
7.2
7.44
7.39
7.08
Virginia Lung
Virginia Lung Design Director at One Plus Partnership
5.2
6.5
5
6.95
5.91
Client
SJ Group
Floor area
325 ㎡
Completion
2021
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Instagram
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[Ephemera]
We intended to provide the space with several tastes and functions by designing it into a clustering form. The floor plan is ‘L’-shaped with spiral stairs to the upper floor. With the center of the stairs, we prepared 4 clusters, which play a hall, a convention, a corridor, and a studio respectively. The hall presents people full of openness, however the convention affords more private and can be changed according to the purpose. Through the corridor which amplifies the tension is found the studio which can play various roles. All of them are openly connected, but having different feelings. Each has its own access to outside, which results in a variety of flow lines of people. 

Since the concept of the space to memorize something momentary, we chose ‘frame’. Each frame can be a single exhibition but also make a magnificent picture as a mass of collection. Each cluster has different tastes of frames, sometimes as a big assembly, sometimes as a matrix, sometimes as a table, and sometimes as a shelf. 

The restaurant is located in the middle of industrial area filled with gloomy concrete buildings. It is a pleasing surprise when you find a cozy and relaxing woody space in the middle of gray desolate area. The location is perfect for me to realize my design philosophy to hold people ‘Warmly welcoming’, ‘Gently relaxing’ and ‘Long pleasing’.