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Gien Jia Restaurant by II Design

The Italian restaurant “Gien Jia” located in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Designed and renovated from a 60 years old duplex house by II Design. This structure filled with vary classic brick constructions: Heading bond, English bond and Dutch bond, combined with new elements including oak custom cellars, exposed fine lined brass pipes. “Kaleidoscope” is the inspiration and main concept of this project, express designer mix and match local, ordinary things into unexpected but harmony images. Regular polygon also becomes the symbol in the space, mosaic stone flooring, tableware, hexagon tiles and octagon mirrors all follow the concept. Visitors here not only have delicious food but also appreciate fantasy images.

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