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Insoil Showroom / KKOL Studio

Valeria Silva — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 21:00:00 +0000

In The Interpretation of Dreams, a book that offers insights into the relationship between dreams and the subconscious, Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud discussed the concepts of "manifest dreams" and "latent dreams." Assuming the dreams we remember after we wake up are manifest dreams, the subconscious that acts as those dreams' original forms — or, in other words, our inner worlds — are latent dreams. Our true objects of desire always remain latent rather than being manifested. The space devoted to Insoil, a ceramics brand, passes through the domain of the latent. It visualizes invisible consciousnesses, such as the brand identity Insoil pursues or the desires of the two artists for a good life. "The trivial yet not insignificant," "The delicate yet firm," "The orderly yet not overly artificial," "The dim yet luminous,""The mundane yet unfamiliar."

Center Coffee Eastpole / KKOL Studio

Valeria Silva — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 17:00:00 +0000

Center Coffee is a brand known and loved for its devotion to coffee beans and its sincerity toward coffee. Alongside a change in seasons, Center Coffee underwent a large-scale rebranding and a simultaneous recontextualization of its spatial design. Each location has its unique appeal and characteristics, but there was a need to form an appropriate level of visual consistency throughout. The task was to forge "uniformity" while also specifying a degree of "difference."

OZBE Cafe / KKOL Studio

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 23:00:00 +0000

OZBE is a new café brand occupying four floors that offers premium fruits and serves them by directly juicing or plating these fruits on the spot. The first floor is the fruit market, the second floor contains the offices, and the third and fourth floors consist of lounge areas for customers.

RiverRidge Cafe / KKOL STUDIO

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 20:00:00 +0000

Humanity is innately wired to constantly seek a better life and home rather than to be content with the present. Our desire and drive toward the ideal has been aggregated for eons to compose the contemporary society we live in, and allowed us to forge into the new world that could otherwise have been nothing more than a fantasized ideal.

Café heuler / KKOL Studio

Hana Abdel — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 01:00:00 +0000

Café heuler is a project that was conceived based on the appearance of the flow of water, gently meandering in and out. Just as the name “流留場(Yuyujang)1” implies, the space advocates and encourages the patron’s journey of entering with leisure and staying languidly until their equally relaxed exeunt.

Boba Bear Café / KKOL Studio

Hana Abdel — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 18:00:00 +0000

Tchaikovsy’s ballet Swan Lake features a white swan and a black swan, representing good and evil, respectively. Similarly, the movie Black Swan starring Natalie Portman portrays Nina — a protagonist aspiring to transition from a white swan to a perfect black swan — through a synesthesia of desire and anxiety. As such, the white and black swans are not only a matter of simple color contrast but also imply contradictory affect and transformation.

Perks Coffee / KKOL Studio

Hana Abdel — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 20:00:00 +0000

Perks, a newly established coffee brand, is located in a complex in Samsung-dong, Seoul. To cater to the area’s high proportion of office workers, Perks was designed with a focus on takeout coffee. First, we decided to make the most of the high ceilings of the space’s existing structure. Once customers enter the café, they can feel a surprising sense of openness that cannot be felt outside. The 3.6m wide interior wall is finished with a vertical grain veneer that multiplies the space’s verticality.

MEWB Café / KKOL Studio

Hana Abdel — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 18:00:00 +0000

MEWB is a brewing specialty coffee brand derived from Moredeepdonut. The overall atmosphere of the space is similar to the distinctive aura of MEWB management: chic yet affable, nonchalant yet sensitive. The tall stainless steel column acts as the central axis of the space and expresses their youth and confidence. Additionally, the donut drawer in a corner of the space and orange-tinted floor subtly contains the identity of Moredeepdonut, MEWB’s inception.

Donut & Coffee Shop in Daejeon / KKOL Studio

Hana Abdel — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 19:00:00 +0000

KKOL STUDIO aimed to express the brand’s most important characteristics, such as the shape of a Boston doughnut and its overloaded fillings, by dividing the customer experience into five different spatial sequences.