利旭恒：玩转餐饮江湖的设计师

　　Project Name: Rong Restaurant

　　Designer (Design company): Golucci International Design

　　Design team: Lee Hsuheng, Zhao Shuang,

　　Client: Rong Restaurant

　　Location: Tianjin, China

　　Built area: 800m2

　　Completion (date): 2013.6

　　Photographer: Sun Xiangyu

融餐厅

融餐厅

融餐厅

　　The classical Chinese cuisine in China, the designer Lee Hsuheng , instead of creating a resplendent and magnificent feel as typical designs for Chinese restaurant do, applies another important characteristic of the Chinese culture harmony to decorate this place. With a modern but abstract design method, the designer hopes that, when guests are passing through this restaurant, they are also wandering at a library where all kinds of thoughts meet and harmoniously coexist, enjoying the elegant cultural atmosphere.

融餐厅

融餐厅

　　Stepping down the staircase, a traditional Chinese bronze door, lit by the soft lights, gives a Buddhist mood and sends a message of welcome to customers. Entering this door, you’ll experience a corridor where you can find a big desk piling up various kinds of books. At the end of this corridor, you will find the wall in front of you is a miniature of the Blue Dougong (a system of brackets inserted between the top of a column and a crossbeam from Yongzuosi Temple in Taiyuan, one of classical Chinese architecture), showing the theme of the restaurant. Coupled by the glass screens, which are painted with book shelves and thus create a sense of knowledge and transparent, making you feel standing in the imperial library of the Forbidden City. When lanterns on the roof are lit, it comes to you a sense of being in a pleasant and elegant environment.