POW Ideas Unifies Contrast Design Personalities in Wildflowers Project

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.