Here comes our complementary copies of Hinge magazine, all the way from Hong Kong, covering our projects
Water Moon,
Habitat Antique,
Phamish, and
S House.
I liked the short description Hinge poised to introduce our practise;
...Growing in recognition, the duo (Olivia Shih and Yoshihito Kashiwagi) is poised to break into the relative 'medium-time' [someday bigtime...] ... Their work is clean and quietly imaginative, avoiding histrionics and not afraid of proposing practical, cost-efficient solutions to a client's brief. Nothing wrong with simplicity....
Although I would not necessarily say that we intentionally avoid histrionics; the simplicity in our works is more so a reflection of our perspective on space and architecture.
Maybe it is more appropriate to say that we avoid creating spaces that could be "consumed"?
We aim for a beauty in the simplicity, which could be embedded in the materiality, the logic, the construction, and/ or the philosophy.
The physical space is the outcome of series of decisions we repeatedly examined throughout the design process, in order to reassure that we have not deviated from what we set out to do for each project.
There are times that we were distracted and lost... but then I always remembered that when we set up Facet Studio, we told ourselves that we will be creating meaningful design; when there is meaning behind our design, there is beauty in what we do.
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| parcel from Hong Kong! |
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| Water Moon to the left, Habitat Antique to the right |
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| Phamish to the left, S House to the right |
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| Friday afternoon tea thanks to Soo Jin, who will be heading back to UK to complete her study shortly |
