UK , 2017-12-30
The South Quay Plaza, the 220 meters glass tower with 68 floors has become the new point of focus at London’s Canary Wharf. Along with Citibank, the Bank of England, Standard Chartered Bank and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., South Quay Plaza has crafted its unique skyline with serried commercial architecture creating a clean-cut skyline. As the highest residential building in Europe, it is yet another great accomplished by Foster+Partners comparable in stature with the British Museum, London City Hall, Thames Millennium Bridge and the Swiss Re Headquarter.
HWCD was invited to design the sample room at the South Quay Plaza. Designers brought Art Nouveau forms combines with a Mid-Century style. The perfect curves depict an elegant profile and incredibly posh details of the furniture that allows the charming elements to fuse and flow creating a comfortable yet elegant modern lifestyle.The entrance mirror, the lamp and the side cabinet are all composed of a basic geometrical form, showing the layered scattered expression forms of basic constitutive elements of a three-dimensional deconstruction.
Art Nouveau has combined vibrantly smooth lines with a Mid Century style and finds a visual balance in a reduced-symmetric layout, encompassing elegant sentiment. The light-metal and the white marble table together form a harmonic ‘symbiosis’ between materials forming a sense of visual tension. The circular mirror in the living room reflects the Canary Wharf theme, while the horizontally stretched dining room window pulls the City’s backdrop into the interior becoming a gigantic theatre screen.
Jean RETs's painting explores the abstract philosophy of patterns and colours, expressing the essential meaning of the complex world in concise lines, echoing the smooth interface of the home with the full curve, and forming a spatial dialogue context. The purity of mid-century elegance and softness of neo-art abound. The natural light produced by the material creates a "wave lexicon" of modernism by linking function to aesthetic pleasure. ”
As Herman Miller put it: the boundaries of people's lives are gradually blurred, the fixed functional areas of life will be transformed into a form of mobility, the integration of life and art into a kind of grounding and the soul of space communication
