Japandi Nordic wabi-sabi style furniture configuration – iF Design Award space case unboxing
The popular wabi-sabi style in recent years has become the new mainstream of interior design with its simplicity, tranquility and simplicity. The Japandi Nordic wabi-sabi style, which combines Japanese wabi-sabi style with Nordic style, has also formed a spatial aesthetic trend. This article takes the space case "Under The Bodhi Tree " that won the 2022 iF Design Award as an example to analyze the elements of Nordic wabi-sabi style for you, and help you understand how to use Nordic wabi-sabi style furniture to build space aesthetics and texture.
Japandi Nordic wabi-sabi style feature 1: natural elements
One of the characteristics of Japandi's Nordic wabi-sabi style is to bring natural original textures and earth tones indoors to create a quiet and relaxing space atmosphere. The walls of the sky and the floor are all constructed of wooden elements. Behind the overall consistent and coherent visual effect, it is actually to overcome a major challenge - carefully splicing the natural texture of wood from different angles to create a space that looks like a single piece.
The owner of the house admires nature and longs to wake up under a big tree every day in the wooden house. In a space surrounded by earth tones, the natural line beauty of light-colored wood can moderately resolve the high pressure of the space, convey a quiet and soft atmosphere, and fully demonstrate Japandi 's rustic design in Nordic wabi-sabi style .
Japandi Nordic wabi-sabi style feature 2: minimalist elements
Another feature of Japandi’s Nordic wabi-sabi style is its minimalist elements. The Japanese Zen style exuded by the wooden space is mixed with the minimalist style of Nordic Italian design furniture, creating an overall harmonious wabi-sabi style space.
How to create a simple, modern and well-designed Buddhist niche for homeowners who devote themselves to worshiping Buddha is the core of space planning and a big test. Designer Yang Yijing used three colors of black, wood and gold throughout the room. She chose the Holo Console Table from the Italian furniture design brand Kristalia, which is in line with the minimalist characteristics of wabi-sabi style furniture, as a Buddhist niche , combining Italian-style furniture with wabi-sabi. Feng interior design is connected in series, giving full play to the spatial characteristics based on simple design.
▲ Kristalia Holo Console Table entryway side table
The Kristalia Holo entrance side table was inspired by Japanese designer Kensaku Oshiro's inspiration from the natural forms of rocks eroded by wind and water. He integrated the asymmetrical yet harmonious and beautiful image of nature into the furniture design, in line with Japandi Nordic The nature and minimalist elements emphasized by wabi-sabi style furniture coincide with each other. The metal base echoes the solemn golden Buddha statue. The natural and soft light and shadow are projected behind the Buddha statue. It completely breaks away from the traditional framework and successfully creates an aesthetic and modern Buddhist niche. It uses a simple and elegant space design to convey the Buddha's enlightenment under the bodhi tree. artistic conception.
In order to enhance the transparency of the overall space, the Buddhist niche adopts open rather than closed partitions, and uses semi-open screens as space divisions. The screen design also has the Nordic wabi-sabi style Japandi wooden elements, and the frame is like a picture frame. Let’s start with flexible and movable fans to inject a humanistic atmosphere into the space.
Japandi Nordic wabi-sabi style feature 3: low chroma
The bright and transparent living room with large floor-to-ceiling doors, paired with low-color furniture, is also Japandi is an essential element of Nordic wabi-sabi style . Designer Yang Yijing said, Japandi Nordic wabi-sabi style emphasizes simplicity and the spirit of life connected with the earth. Simplicity comes from attitude and practicality rather than decoration. The space design is based on the pursuit of hygge, a simple and happy attitude towards life.
▲ Muuto Reflect image side cabinet
▲ Muuto In Situ modular sofa / Kristalia Holo coffee table side table
In the wooden Zen-style space, the Nordic wabi-sabi style furniture brand Muuto Reflect sideboard , which is good at using wood-tone elements, is selected, and the Muuto modular sofa In Situ, which is the same as the earth tones and can set off the texture of the large body, is paired with a woven carpet. and throw blankets and other wabi-sabi style accessories. The lighting design uses the century-old Danish lighting brand Louis Poulsen . The lighting master Poul Henningsen first published it in 1928. It is also the most exquisite work of the PH master - the PH Septima glass chandelier , which is soft and zero glare at night. The tasteful and textured chandeliers allow natural lighting to penetrate into the interior through large-area floor-to-ceiling glass during the day. The lamps are transformed into exquisite spatial installation artworks. The lighting and low-color design furniture set off the harmonious beauty of the space.
▲ Louis Poulsen PH Septima glass chandelier
Japandi Nordic wabi-sabi style feature 4: asymmetrical elements
Bedrooms that wish to present a sense of stability continue the wooden Japandi Nordic wabi-sabi style elements and use wooden blinds. Integrated into both sides of the bed The asymmetrical elements of Japandi 's Nordic wabi-sabi style include a bedside table with a table lamp, and a standing lamp that incorporates wooden elements on the other side.
▲ Muuto Pull standing lamp / MD House Orbit bedside table
The bedding part uses the Iorca series of the top Italian bedding brand Bolzan . The personalized customization flexibility allows consumers to choose the color, material, size and bed frame type according to their personal preferences. The textile material headboard cushion and flip-up storage The bed frame provides extra storage space and is creative and ingenious under the simple lines.
" Japandi's Nordic wabi-sabi style seems simple, but the simpler things are, the more difficult they are to design." Designer Yang Yijing summed up the important key to the space design of Under The Bodhi Tree in one sentence - abandon the complicated decoration design and let the simple Appropriate white space in the space, complemented by simple-designed furniture, can create a space where people can relax and stretch their body and mind. The wooden Zen style of Japanese wabi-sabi style, the minimalist Italian design or the low-key and fresh Nordic style may seem like it. Routes with different styles can spark creative sparks with the common vocabulary of simple design. Cross-border integration is undoubtedly the best interpretation of Japandi's Nordic wabi-sabi style design.
Space design company: Panyu Construction Hengju Interior Design
Designer: Joyce Yang Yang Yijing
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