This 1200 square meters apartment at the West Bund of Huangpu River in Shanghai was chosen by a film investor to reside, work, recreate and socialize. A bow shape site with the long side facing to the West Bund where is arranged with different space functions. Materials are kept as simple as they could be, while glass partitions are applied to allow the transparent vision and private feelings. The design pulled the focus away from thinking of the daily necessities and reexamined the definition of residence with a poetic perspective to create a natural gallery living style.

Isabelle Zhao Peng is an award-winning designer with a strong sense of her cultural heritage. This has fueled her interest in modern Chinese culture and inspired her to question how global best practices can be unified with long-existing traditions. Her work has always engendered a unique combination of local insight and style worldwide. Isabelle has established her observation and thinking in practice. The projects she’s engaged in include Hospitality, Retail, Exhibition, F&B, entertainment, Residence, and Real Estate. Her works have been published in worldwide media, including INTERIOR DESIGN, FRAME, HINGE, RETAIL ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR, INTERIOR DESIGNER, ID+C, GOOOOD, ELLEDECO, FORBES, DESIGN SHANGHAI, DEZEEN, DESIGN ANTHOLOGY, ARCHIPANIC, TRENDS PLUS, FORMFAKTOR Austrian, NEUE LUXURY Australia, BEYONGtheMAGAZINNE Italy, AXIS Japan, the Artling Singapore, ARTCM, etc. She premises: What is design today and how could this guide people’s lives towards poetic living? She takes this as her long-term research program to explore the possibilities of poetic living in contemporary society and its relationship to art and design. By developing new visual languages, she aims to arouse people’s consciousness and reflection on their present spiritual status and to form an aesthetic attitude of lives related to innermost sensibility. Isabelle’s design research project Seesaw Roundtable won both the International Design Awards' (IDA) Gold Prize in Design For Society / Design for Public Awareness and the Silver Prize in Interior Products Design. ‘Seesaw Roundtable’ also won the European Product Design Award’s (EPDA) Gold Prize and was the Single Winner in Design For Society / Design for Public Awareness.

IK design is a boutique design studio, aiming to explore the possibility of the modern design of different visual language in space, amid the contemporary society, multi-context and the ever-changing environment. IK design respects the uniqueness of each project and tailors it. Hight standard of attention to details allow IK design to implement projects into perfection.