Gold Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2025
Xie Ben Qian Restaurant
- A' Design Award 2025 Gold Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2025
- CLIENT: Linghai Design
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About Xie Ben Qian Restaurant
Xie Ben Qian is a restaurant interior design covering 1200 square meters in China. The design joins natural forms with modern aesthetics. Waterfalls, canyons and boulders are brought into the space, combining rough texture with refined detail. The main materials are stone, metal, wood, glass, art paint, matte acrylic and ceramic tiles. Lighting is used as a narrative tool, and the strength and position of each light source are adjusted to suit dining, meeting guests, singing and socializing. The waterfall effect was refined through more than twenty tests.
Linghai Design's award-winning Xie Ben Qian Restaurant exemplifies the contemporary movement toward immersive experiential hospitality design, where interior architecture transcends mere functional accommodation to create transformative multisensory environments. The designers appear to draw upon traditions of theatrical scenography, biophilic design principles, and digital media integration to orchestrate a dining experience that oscillates between primordial forest and cosmic voyage. The monumental sculptural trees that colonize the ceiling demonstrate remarkable craftsmanship in their naturalistic rendering, their weathered bark textures and carefully gradated foliage suggesting both ancient growth and eternal autumn. These organic forms establish a counterpoint to the technological elements below, proposing perhaps a meditation on the relationship between natural and artificial environments. The fragmented mirror columns function as mediating elements, their reflective surfaces simultaneously multiplying space and fragmenting visual continuity in ways that evoke crystalline geological formations or shattered ice. The luminous furniture system represents particular technical achievement, with transparent materials transformed through internal lighting into glowing vessels that seem to hover above the floor plane. The massive LED installation introduces dynamic temporality, its swirling chromatic fields suggesting fluid dynamics, astronomical phenomena, or the primordial energy preceding material form. The chromatic strategy juxtaposes warm organic earth tones against cool technological blues and cyans, with the media wall introducing high-saturation accent hues that energize the overall composition. One might observe how this environment invites diners to contemplate thresholds between nature and technology, permanence and flux, the ancient and the futuristic. How does such spatial abundance transform the fundamental social ritual of dining together?
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- Unique Properties
- The most important thing in catering design is to empower both the brand and the restaurant, the significance of design lies in breaking through the ceiling of customers' imagination, surpassing their expectations, and making every customer sincerely admire. The project combines the primitive power of wild nature with avant-garde fashion aesthetics, creating a visual and spatial experience that combines rough texture and exquisite luxury on the natural landscape.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The project covers a total of 1200 square meters.
- Tags
- Interior, Restaurant, Nature, Fantastic, Wilderness, Artistic, Fashion
- Production Technology
- The main materials in this project are stone, metal, wood, glass, art paint, matte acrylic, ceramic tiles, etc. Lighting is also a narrative technique in restaurant spaces. In the lighting design in this case, the designers adjust the strength and position of the light source to create different atmospheres, making it suitable for different scenes such as dining, entertaining guests, singing, and socializing.
- Design Challenge
- Only by maximizing cost savings without compromising design quality can achieve a win-win situation between design and business. This requires a detailed budget and evaluation for each implementation plan, ultimately achieving mutual empowerment between the design and brand parties, and implementing the project in a win-win manner. Commercial design must serve both business and operations.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2024 in China and finished in October 2024 in China.
- Operation Flow
- In order to make the waterfall effect vivid, the designers conducted more than 20 experiments and adjustments. From the form and angle of water flow, to the selection and layout of stones, to the delicate expression of water flow velocity and water splashes, all details are gradually completed through repeated refinement and improvement.
- Research
- Some projects have achieved success for designers, but not for brands. Good commercial design should be mutually beneficial. In just three months since its opening, the restaurant has continued to dominate the rankings, winning first place on the Shanghai Dianping brand environment list, taste list, and service list. Despite the current downturn in the entire catering market, it has created impressive performance.
- Inspiration
- Before the completion of the project, the brand had already shown its ambition: to become the ceiling of Shanghai's business banquets and create an ultimate wild luxury restaurant environment. So, in the brand new wild luxury realm of this case, the boundary between city and nature is deconstructed and reshaped, breaking free from constraints and turning into infinite creative possibilities. Natural elements such as waterfalls, canyons, and boulders flood into the space.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Fan'er Culture, Xie Ben Qian, 2024.
Image #2: Photographer Fan'er Culture, Xie Ben Qian, 2024.
Image #3: Photographer Fan'er Culture, Xie Ben Qian, 2024.
Image #4: Photographer Fan'er Culture, Xie Ben Qian, 2024.
Image #5: Photographer Fan'er Culture, Xie Ben Qian, 2024. - Patents
- Copyrights belong to Linghai Design, 2024