2023 | Professional

MUSE Design Awards Silver Winner

Lingering Scent of Tea

Entrant Company

Vraile Design Group

Category

Interior Design - Retails, Shops, Department Stores & Mall

Client's Name

Mr. Chang

Country / Region

Taiwan

Owing to geographical advantage and excellent tea-making craftsmanship, tea has always been one of Taiwan’s crucial cultural symbols and an indispensable part of life. Tea drinking is not merely an art form of living but signifies good taste and equanimity as well.

The design of the space allows visitors to transform into tea leaves that unfurl in the most graceful manner, feeling like tea twigs floating in the water and undulating in the wonderful, lingering tea scent.

The tea leaves, after budding and maturing, as well as being picked, fermented, baked, and packaged, are transported from afar and presented at this very moment. It is the encounter of a lifetime and blooming with all the heart. It is going all out and taking pleasure in all this.

The smooth, three-dimensional curves, paired with glass French windows, serve to carry the crystal-clear tea color, as well as the delight and happiness of being steeped in the beauty, from the visual to the taste. In a hard-earned idle moment, visitors can savor tea that is slowing turning sweet and enjoy the happiness of having everything just right.

In the hand-shake tea market with a wide assortment of Chinese, Japanese and English beverages, the space is designed with such ingenuity that the abstract flavor of tea is converted into a concrete form, thereby creating a brand image that is one of a kind and hard to copy. The suspended green curves that encircle the center are modeled on tea leaves that slowly unwind when making tea, subverting regular sensual presentation and enveloping visitors in immersive tea tones and fragrances.

How big is the world in a cup of tea? A busy life is like tea, flavored with bitterness and sweetness. In a stolen moment in the hustle and bustle of city life, one can feel a cherished reclusive ease in this small space. The clear, fresh aftertaste that gradually sweetens is a quintessential, elegant ritual that makes it possible for people to recharge to strive for even more happiness.

Tea is a daily necessity; tea is also elegance and refinement.

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