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Many people may have likely felt the desire to lie down and experience living in a mock-up bedroom in some lovely furniture showroom. Besides the convenience and ready-to-use furniture, it also looks aesthetically pleasing compared to our actual bedrooms at home.
How would it be if today there really is a place like that?
“A Suite in Thao Dien,” designed by Studio Anettai (スタジオ・アネッタイ), is the project that we are talking about. The project is located within a high-rise condominium in Ho Chi Minh City, serving as a showroom for Fritz Hansen, a distinguished furniture brand from Denmark. As one might guess from its location, this showroom allows people to experience staying overnight.
“After studying the client’s furniture collection, we think that the furniture pieces not only match with their original modern Scandinavian interiors, but they can also fit perfectly in other foreign environments, for example, an old historical ruin or even in a traditional Japanese house, thanks to their universal and timeless design. Hence, we would like to redefine the collection by presenting them within a new context: the tropics. The visitors can now find the furniture pieces hidden within in a lush rainforest, between winding pathways, rather than a white cube gallery setting,” stated the architect.
The furniture is categorized into five distinct functional zones: entrance, living, dining, study, and sleeping areas. Each zone can be easily distinguished by the floor’s color and the borderlines created by planter boxes for tropical indoor greenery.
The beauty of various parts within this project doesn’t come from a single party alone. Instead, there are some small elements or features that are ignited by other individuals involved in the project as well. For instance, seamless horizontal and vertical paneling, creating a sensation of continuous transition, is a result of the contractor’s high-skilled expertise in in-situ terrazzo floorwork. Similarly, built-in features designed explicitly for this project have been skillfully managed by local artisans.
“Such interventions by others are what we call ‘creative externalities’, which we always try to pursue as a collective and cooperative design process to achieve something more than a product from catalogues, selected by the architects,” the architect once again delightfully stated. “The project departed from what could be called “international” today – modern products with simple geometry. By actively involving other local factors, such as local designers, artisan’s creativity and vibrant tropical plants, the project seeks to achieve an environment where the locality and global phenomenon can coexist, creating a new symbiosis between these two systems as a whole.”
If anyone happens to visit Ho Chi Minh City, “A Suite in Thao Dien” is the perfect choice to experience sleeping in a showroom at least once in a lifetime.
Project Name: A Suite in Thao Dien
Architect: Studio Anettai
Completion Year: 2021
Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Area: 86.12 sq.m.
Photo: Hiroyuki Oki
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