May the expression elaborate be appro-priate? It is natural that the more the
number increases, the more difficult it is for the harmony, but the Chinese
restaurant Toh Lim newly opened at Hotel Lotte was completed with the expensive
harmony by the materials possessed their own place on the exciting plain. It was
moved from the basement to the upper floor in order to obtain the night view and
to provide the privacy to the customers. So lets pay attention to that intention.
Several exciting creations reinforce the structural aesthetic of space. Christofle
Chopstick Club to keep the chopsticks of each customer in order to make them use
their own chopsticks offers the excitement and the keeping box for 132 pairs of
chopstick plays the role of decoration at the entrance. The open kitchen to have
the concept of showto show the process of cooking conveys the warm vitality to
the hall through the soundproof wall finished by the brown brick not by the white
tile, the universal material for kitchen. Tea Bar the new trial deserves to attract
by the gaze with Samovar the boiling machine.
The space full of the materials from the chopsticks to the white cooking hat. Lets
find several orders of multi-materiality in the interior design of Toh Lim produced
for the sake of harmony.
From the floor of elevator hall and the reception hall by centrifugal force, the
lighting of ceiling, the pillar, the tables, the open kitchen, the curved corridor, and
the curly line of willow in the flowerpot.. The order of these is circle, the piece of
circle.
The elevator hall to give the clear impression by the color contrast of marble, the
reception hall to show the contrast with the ceiling of the soft light flowing towards
the lower part in the dented fabric, the walls by the solid vertical line and the
wood panel in horizontal wave pattern, the information desk looked better by the
contrast of the light and the darkness of ebony and nacre, the curved corridor by
the perpendicular contrast of the horizontal pattern of wood grain with the vertical
connection of nacre, the time contrast of the oriental print framed by acryl with the
blue mirror for background, and the chair designed by the pattern and no-pattern
half and half. It is the order of contrast for the changeable harmony.
The last order is the depth. The delicate shadow of waved wood panel and the
wall set the silver mirror in a same size mean the depth of border against the
other zone. The order-made glass with which the both sides of fabric are covered,
screens the opposite zone and has the transparent depth. The stone-scaled wall
paper by its glittering, the round lighting of hall ceiling by the free pushing-out
from the difference of diameter and height, Tea Bar by the trail of tea bottle
reflected on SUS, the pillar of hall by the depth of relief, the exterior of open
kitchen by the light... Each of the elements shows the depth by its own way. Like
this, Toh Lim obtains the orderly appearance in the multi-materiality.
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