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Design and Dialogue
HOTEL CHIC&BASIC BORN
(China)
CHIC & BASIC BORN
1. “Crossover” is very popular in different design areas nowadays. And what is your view towards this and is there such design elements in your works?
We work always without prejudices. We have a strategy, we have a process, but we are wide open to shocking surprises. We work for people, we provide answers, and in fact we have no style. Crossover has been always there, with different names… like curiosity, culture. It’s the idea of staying prepared to listen to anything that happens around you. Different situations demand different solutions, and you need to be prepared to pick any sort of clue from any field.
2. Environmentally friendly and advanced materials are very popular today. Are these materials largely applied in the interior design? What is the common idea of most people towards this?
Environmentally friendly is a concept, it is loaded with abstraction. Interior design is about glamour, senses, materials, loaded with dreams, but physical. That is to say, if a material is environmentally friendly then has an added value, but not necessarily on the interior design side. Once say that, we definitely have to be more conscious about our planet and especially about what people think about our planet. We envision the future using materials that you can recover, not in the sense of recycling, but in the sense that nature is able to provide them regularly, have you heard about wood? Continue reading →
