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I love this project by a Tokyo based design firm Nendo
My personal two favorite spaces to design are retail spaces and children's playrooms. I so agree with this space, that kids rooms don't always have to be designed with baby pastel colors or bright hues. I love the sophistication of this space.
What makes this design so brilliant is the fact that the space used to be a windowless gray concrete basement, basically a dungeon. Then Nendo took on the task and converted such a space into a private playroom for children and with such creativity. This speaks volumes about principal Oki Sato's imagination.
The cafe is designed to be enjoyed by two very different sizes of users, 'parents' and 'small children',who see the world through different eyes,so the interior plays on this difference in scale.
I love how the cafe's 'absolutely huge' and 'absolutely tiny' furnishings take advantage of these two perspectives, the adult's and the child's.
A nursing sofa becomes a playroom when blown up on a massive scale, and a diaper changing table when shrunk to minuscule proportions.
Big windows pair with small ones, and big light bulbs with small ones. The floorboards vary in size, and the undersides of tables, where parents eyes don't reach, hide pictures. While parents sit at the tables, kids crawling underneath discover stickers depicting both baby and grown-up animals.
There's no sunlight, of course, but faux windows in varying sizes are scattered across two walls. Mirror fills some of the frames. Others surround internally lit cubbies, which add depth while doubling as a place to stash toys and other curiosities.
Post by Heidi
Source: Interior Design Magazine & Nendo website
Photography by Jimmy Cohrssen
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