Poly • City Gather Cheongsam Customization Workshop

As conceiving the cheongsam workshop, ONE-CU carefully crafted the space, like making a piece of cheongsam.

The designers broke away from the Chinese style of conventional cheongsam spaces, and tried to figure out the design scheme by looking back at the history of cheongsam. As a traditional Chinese dress for women, cheongsam was transformed in late Qing Dynasty and prevailed in the Republican Era (1912-1949), a period characterized by collision of feudal system and western ideas and integration of diverse cultures. Based on such context, ONE-CU extracted the ambiguous character of cheongsam, and applied it to the spatial design. The team intended to blur the boundaries between functional areas, so as to let materials and articles to tell the story. Moreover, they adopted design languages to incorporate the ambiguity between the implicit and explicit, contrast and harmony, tradition and modernism into the entire space

Design Firm: ONE-CU Interior Design Lab
Location: Jiangmen, China
Area: 280 sqm
Video: DD / Xiang Shucheng