Zazen Bear
Zazen Bear Shop by Pierpaolo Martiradonna,Matteo Falcone and Francesco Ma is a winner of the 2017 Iron A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design.
Zazen Bear is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations.
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The Zazen Bear Flagship store, located in Soho, NYC, is a Korean - Japanese multi-use concept shop. Within a space designed to encourage peace, tranquility and harmony, Zazen brings together a retail program featuring Zen spirited items with wellness and art-exhibition programming. The atmosphere is achieved by the synthesis of organic forms and materials — primarily wood, stone, and plants. A double-height plant wall comprising of purifying plants traverses the space vertically, linking the retail level and the sub-grade gallery and meditation center.
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Zazen Bear by Pierpaolo Martiradonna,Matteo Falcone and Francesco Ma
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Interior Space and Exhibition Design Award Winner in 2017.
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Zazen Bear Shop
Zazen Bear is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Zazen Bear is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Zazen Bear is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Winner Designer
Pierpaolo Martiradonna,Matteo Falcone and Francesco Ma
Pierpaolo, a native-born Italian, has amassed a vast amount of experience in architecture, project management, construction administration and client representation over the past ten years in New York. Pierpaolo began his career with Cetra Ruddy where he played a central role in the design of One Madison Park and the award winning Oval Amenities for Stuyvesant Town. He then joined SAS where he gained valuable residential and commercial experience. Pierpaolo was educated at the Faculty of Architecture of Bari, Italy and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) in New York. He lives and works in New York.
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Zazen Bear
Zazen Bear is a Korean-Japanese concept shop offering plush sleep cushions and meditation jewelry, a downstairs art gallery, and yoga classes. Zazen Bear offers guests a 360° experience that creates a path from Zen to shopping by providing a sense of sanctuary and harmony that allows exploring, through scent, texture and visuals. Every item in the store is crafted to evoke a sense of harmony, relaxation and tranquility when touched, worn or used to decorate the home.
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