A breathing cake shop

For Li Baolong and Chen Xiaohu from BloomDesign each project has a story, so does this cake shop, where the hero is 64-years-old Maruyama, founder of Marier brand, whose lifelong pursuit of best cake manifests the professional spirit of striving for the perfection.

  Inside the space, raw stone, original wood without processing and terrazzo flooring abandon a decorative or foppish appearance, and pursue an authentic and pure beauty. The old tree outside the window interacts with a huge original rock inside the shop through a narrow glass curtain wall, bringing nature back to city and immersing clients in it. All of the design solutions follow Marier brand’s idea of natural health, from the earth-like color, natural texture to unadorned furnishings, natural ornament. Through a minimalistic visual language and design techniques, BloomDesign presents multi-level artistic conception of “seeing a mountain in a rock and a forest in a tree” that is typical in Oriental context.

MarierWagashi, Shenzhen, China
Program: cake shop
Architect: BloomDesign
Creative director: Li Baolong, Chen Xiaohu
Project team: Qiu Wendi, Zhang Renqiang
Project location: Shenzhen, China
Lighting design: Ding Jie
Contractor: HeiZhuangXiu
Area: 117 sqm
Completion: 2017