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POW Ideas Unifies Contrast Design Personalities in Wildflowers Project

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Project Name
Wildflowers
Location
Petaling Street, Kuala Lumpur
Completion Date
September 2019
Site Area (sqm)
200
Gross Floor Area (sqm)
500
Building Height (storeys; metres)
2.5 storeys
Client
Wildflowers Sdn Bhd
Architecture Firm / Design Consultant
POW Ideas
Principal Architect / Designers
Jun Ong, Kyle E
Design Team
Inez Low, Carmen Au
Collaborator
Tumbleknots
Image Credit / Photographer
POW Ideas / David Yeow Photography

Situated directly across from Merchant’s Lane on the fringes of Chinatown, a new fusion F&B venture Wildflowers occupies two double-storey heritage corner shophouses. POW Ideas, the designer, designed a bar, a restaurant, two private dining rooms and a kitchen, with a design concept inspired from the abstract imagery of flowers across various surfaces and materials, with both levels having contrasting personalities.

POW Ideas Unifies Contrast Design Personalities in Wildflowers Project

©POW Ideas / David Yeow Photography

The bar and private dining rooms are placed downstairs as a crowd-puller and designed to be ‘flowers at night’. In collaboration with a Penang-based macramé artist, Tumbleknots, the design element incorporates interactive coloured lighting, floral wallpapers and bespoke rope.

POW Ideas Unifies Contrast Design Personalities in Wildflowers Project

©POW Ideas / David Yeow Photography

On the other hand, the dining area is placed upstairs with ample daylighting from the roof oculus cast against a wall of potted greens. The existing windows are enlarged and incorporated with two-sided planter boxes with leather banquet seating nooks while the existing floor void is encased with thin metal cages for creepers to grow on.

POW Ideas Unifies Contrast Design Personalities in Wildflowers Project

©POW Ideas / David Yeow Photography

To connect the different design styles, the designer tied both levels together with a vaulted stairwell cladded with warped acrylic mirrors and colored lighting to transporting customers from one dimension to another.

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