NIHO

The NIHO showroom is a 300-square-metre furniture exhibition space completed in 2021, designed by Ding Pengwen of the Erwo Space Design Studio and photographed by Xia Zhi and Emma. The project's conceptual brief is organized around two relationships, the visitor and the still life. The eye is treated as the centre of perception: it is driven by desire, captured and held by subjectivity, then integrated and thought through to form a unique spatial impression held in the visitor's memory. Placing the visitor at the centre of the space produces moments of individual, differing experience, opening a sensory-interactive world that distances them from the outside noise they have come to escape. The space itself is expressed through continuity, irregularity, and inclined symmetry, producing playfulness and self-narrative, letting visitors feel themselves in relation to world, time, and duration. After this large narrative, the purpose is simple: to let the coherent self build a lasting memory of the space. The still life, as furniture, requires a temporary expressive form to carry it, evidence that it is not the only thing in the space that receives and sends. This deceptive care is realized in freestanding spatial structures, whose sequence and scale are calibrated so that furniture is read the way skin reads texture, weight, density, and temperature. Standing on its own, connected to the human body, each object can suddenly acquire emotion and behaviour. Limited project information is available for this entry.