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Mextra Lab Base

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JURY VOTES
Single-Brand Store
6.44
5.80
6.75
5.32
6.08
Christophe Penasse
Christophe Penasse Cofounder at Masquespacio
7.05
5
7.34
5
6.1
Hongchao Wang
Hongchao Wang Creative Director and Cofounder at Benwu Studio
7.17
6.15
7.05
6.51
6.72
Kim Tchai
Kim Tchai Founder and CEO at Tchai International
7.62
6.3
7.51
5.91
6.84
Geoffrey Timmer
Geoffrey Timmer Creative director at Colliers
6
6
6.5
5.8
6.08
Raquel Machado
Raquel Machado Senior Design Associate at M Moser Associates
6
6
7
5
6
Haijie Hu
Haijie Hu Cofounder and Creative Director at VAVE Studio
7
5
7
5
6
Miriam Zuurbier
Miriam Zuurbier Associate Partner and Creative Director at TANK
6
6.5
6.5
5
6
Mijail Gutierrez
Mijail Gutierrez Principal and Design Director at Perkins and Will
5
6
7
5
5.75
Güray Oskay
Güray Oskay Director of Architectural Design at ATÖLYE
7.5
7
7.5
5
6.75
Rosha Ehsan
Rosha Ehsan Head of Design at Gastronomica Middle East
6.05
5
6.14
5
5.55
Madhubala Ayyamperumal
Madhubala Ayyamperumal Design Experience Leader at Gensler
Bold brand image!...
6.63
5.75
6.15
5
5.88
Elliot March
Elliot March Cofounder at MAWD
6.05
5.43
6.38
5.32
5.8
Kamna Malik
Kamna Malik Design Curator & Content Strategist at Kamna Malik
6
6
6
6
6
Dan Wang
Dan Wang Cofounder and CEO at Prominence Consulting Group and PLUTO
6.12
5
6.43
5
5.64
Designer
Client
Mextra
Floor area
900 ㎡
Completion
2022
Finishes

Mextra Lab Base is designed to be an international life museum with a combination of aesthetics, interaction and experience, a life museum aiming to convey MEXTRA life concept, upgrade furnishing consumption and demonstrate its leading design. 

Centered on Lab Base, it becomes an R&D center inspiring aesthetic innovation. As a complex immersive experience field, it not only displays the furnishing aesthetics that MEXTRA has been dedicating to, but also not only show the brand stick to explore aesthetics at home, but also spread and lead the development of life culture. When MEXTRA commissioned us to make the design, it talked with us about the design of showing its stores. 

As one of the brands in China's furniture industry, MEXTRA has been being popular with terminal consumer brands. With more than 100 stores in China, it still hopes to have a showroom in Dongguan Famous Furnishing Expo Park, which plays an important role in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The showroom provides service to customers from home and broad and also C-terminal users, fully reflecting the unique brand image. "Make the space art, and make the art spatial." This is the spiritual core of the design.

 A 45-meter-long heterogeneous metal Mosaic wall is designed on the exterior window, a space art installation that pays tribute to the artist Antonio Gaudi. It interprets the art language of Gaudi times with modern materials. We base our design on the needs of our client. Mextra Lab Base is built to convey four philosophies: innovation energy, cutting-edge aesthetics, brand design empowerment and management and operation. About 45-meters heterogeneous space has three different themes: Surprising Gift, Mysterious Date and Wild Party. 

The project can be analyzed from two business perspectives. One is the brand. The space is an "energy field" with the functions of promoting brand image, spreading residential aesthetics and the leading edge of life culture. The other one is business. It is a medium to attract investment and promote brand recognition to achieve its value transformation. Mextra Lab Base provides customers a C-END drainage, by which it creates a brand memory point enhancing the brand symbol and build an immersive interactive experience field, helping customers explore aesthetics. 

At the entrance of the showroom, an art installation base is set up to convey MEXTRA’s aesthetics. The artistic scene created by this unusual installation not only attracts customers but also create online topic about the brand, achieving the spread of Internet traffic. At the same time, we are also exploring a way of commercial innovation. On the basis of traditional design mode, we priority brand planning instead of conceptual creation, which not only updates our working process but also reflects our thinking about future complex business environment.