Feast for the Senses / KYDO

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  • Interior Designers: KYDO
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  529
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2017
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Te-Fan Wang
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  PILLOTA CASA, Romastone Group
Feast for the Senses / KYDO - Interior Photography, Dining room, Table, Chair
© Te-Fan Wang

Text description provided by the architects. Situated in the heart of downtown Taipei, Lao Wang Hot Pot seems to have inherited the streaming lights of the city. Like a torch sparkling with seduction, the restaurant’s spectral pattern creates a stage as much a visual feast as it is a culinary one.

Inspired by the symbols of salt and light found in the gospel of Matthews, the design seeks to solidify and make central the most ephemeral of elements—billowing steam that signifies the coming together of people for hot pot.

Feast for the Senses / KYDO - Interior Photography, Dining room, Table
© Te-Fan Wang

In the stage lit space, light and steam intersect in infinite planes, accentuated by the blurred, translucent boundaries of glass partitions. Like so many pieces of cut crystal, these extend the space visually while partitioning it, refracting a universe of scintillating lights.

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A monochromatic palette gives center stage to the muted, layered depths of light itself. Low seating maintains the permeability of the space, while copper pendant lights—equal parts torch, guide, and beacon—situate the space.

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© Te-Fan Wang

Between the speckled gray of the granite tabletop, the crisscrossing of the wooden floor, and the brown fabric of the seating, the space unfolds in shades of light and shadow, at once majestic yet solemn.

As visual anchor, the designers installed a wood-grain stonewall and driftwood installation on the far side of the restaurant, injecting an element of tranquility in the hubbub heart of the restaurant.

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© Te-Fan Wang

The kitchen area is visible through an elongated ribbon window, a mirror reflection of the horizontal partition of the dining area. Together, the two frame and transform the space into a stage, constantly in motion.

Smoked onyx glass extend the sightline vertically, while the speckled stone floor—like so many pointillist dots—blur the sense of space and depth. In the flickering interplay of light and steam, one walks, as if entranced, into a space at once sensorial and sacred, a feast guided by not one, but all five senses.

Feast for the Senses / KYDO - Interior Photography, Table, Chair
© Te-Fan Wang

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Address:12 Songshou Rd, Xinyi, Taipei, Taiwan, China

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Cite: "Feast for the Senses / KYDO" 12 Mar 2018. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/890282/feast-for-the-senses-kydo> ISSN 0719-8884

© Te-Fan Wang

捞王火锅台北店,以光飨味 / KYDO 耕宇设计事务所

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