Bright Night and Gentle

October 15, 2020

DOMANI Architectural Concepts designed the Meunier Technology Beauty's first concept flagship store located in Baoan District, Shenzhen.


The project invited China's top-tier design company DOMANI to lead its space design. The design strategy is in line with Shenzhen’s ‘Culture+N’ new industry policy, and it also tries to plant a certain design academic discussion in the commercial space: its creative connection as well as experience between the two dimensions of ‘feminism’ and ‘space’.




The exterior and interior of a group of phenomena have always been a huge and absolute link between the past and the future. There is no need to dwell at narrow and foolish discussions about whether beauty should be pursued or whether it is morally appropriate. The amazing economic data behind this means that generations of feminist ideas have evolved into the pervasive female identity of today even if it's a huge self-building exercise that starts with mere appearance.
Meunier's spatial creation is based on observation and feedback of this phenomenon. Exploring the boundaries of female traits through the establishment of layers of contradictions between material relations and spatial forms, and creating a dramatic commercial space experience through the form collision of bright and dark as well as strong and soft. Through the tough and calm appearance style and emotional concept, the perceptual concept of space attempts to describe the inherent complexity of the intertwining of human physical gender and social gender.



In terms of the global female phenomenon, the self-release of women in China's first- and second-tier cities is undoubtedly a light of high entropy. They appear to be more ethereal and unpredictable, and the inner is often more and more tough and calm. There is a dramatic and fascinating contrast between their appearance and the inside. This specific inner quality makes today's female aesthetics a universal sense of rebellion and contradiction. Just as the cement texture of the main space does not point to coarse grains, on the contrary, the cement texture is adjusted with skin-like fineness and precision, while still presenting the calmness of gray tone on the whole. The glass and mirror steel reflective surface on the top emphasize the lightness and clarity of the rise. Two completely different or even contradictory textures bridge the framework and drama of the overall space.

The deconstructed brass texture guest desk at the entrance has an amazing sense of levitation, and the technology presented by micro-carving in precious metal millimeters reflects the greatest possibility. The brand LOGO chooses the cement texture that matches the color of the space, but the embedded position suddenly shows a hint of precious metal luster, and the convergence is precious enough to make the visitors' eyes stop for a long time.



The space form, which is very different from traditional beauty places, tries to combine two contradictions: extreme thickness and lightness with extreme strength and softness. The space explains that the presentation of contemporary women's appearance and inner relation with the contradiction of space and the sense of drama.



The main hospitality area is almost a private art gallery. The collection-level contemporary sculpture installations and furniture are all configured from the top contemporary art exhibition design brand A&V in China. The main installation series is called ' bright night and gentle dismemberment'. Visitors may calm in contemporary abstract expressionism device situation and enjoy the fragrance of a cup of good coffee in a smattering of knowledge.




The mixed pouring technology combined with the staggered interspersed of deconstructed precast concrete slabs constitute a visitor consultation table. The table top is matched with the 6-degree chair transparent version made by A&V 2019. It is originally a panel seat based on architectural logic and female sitting posture design. The neat lines form an ergonomic seating surface, backrest and overall force structure through different angles, and it has an unexpected comfort. The copper wave bench is a high-end product made by A&V in 2020. Through 3-5mm different thickness connection and precise mold bending technology, it is organized into an installation bench that can be used by multiple people at the same time in terms of deconstruction and stability, and can be freely customized in terms of length and number of seats.



'Bright night and gentle dismemberment ' series of installations also come from the creation of the experimental art exhibition studio A&V in 2019. The concrete pouring technology is used to construct abstract bionic body blocks, and the softness formed by arcs and warps as well as the hardness of materials constitute a group of contradictory ideological expression bodies. It is a metaphor for women's inner firmness and toughness as well as delicate and soft in outer expression. The partial damage corresponds to the sense of scars in the historical evaluation of feminism. The device will be permanently collected by Meunier in the project as a solitary piece.

Aisles and public spaces are separated from the public area of the office building through clear glass partitions, and the relationship boundary between different places is established while maintaining the maximum visual aspect of the space. Since the guest room area is a completely enclosed private area, the public area is given a certain degree of visibility as a transition zone. Through this external visibility, it establishes the trust of visitors and consumers in the operation technology of the place.




The key to the interior of the guest room is the ‘feel of water’. When consumers open their eyes in a space with gentle and quiet light, the corrugated steel structure on the top forms an illusion-like waterscape through complex refraction and reflection, which makes people willing to stay in the middle of a certain moment of blur, spontaneously through the imagination of rippling water.
The dressing table with multiple functions provides consumers with formal wear and rest after the service. The full-length formal mirrors behind the front body are rigidly connected to the dressing table through the metal structure. The dressing table has the water circulation function with its own water tank, so that the functional module can solve the problem in the space where hard installation of upper and lower water to provide extremely convenient water with a complete series of high color rendering lighting system. The device is currently being specially developed by A&V for Meunier.



DOMANI Architectural Concepts   www.hkdomani.com

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