Perfect Encounter Between Nature and Industry in a Starbucks Store in Baoshan
Source: shanghaibaoshan Author: Public Time: 2021-04-02 09:36

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The first Starbucks shipping container store in Chinese mainland was open in Wisdom Bay Science and Technology Park located on Yunchuan Road No.6 of Baoshan District last year. Its “Arts Bridge Space”, jointly built by Guangxi Normal University Press (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and its affiliate ACC Art Books and Images Publishing from Australia, is open to public this month and is expected to be a new Internet-famous site for people.

What is Arts Bridge Space? It is a bookstore specially designed with international arts. Due to resources accumulated by the international publishing brand The Arts Bridge owned by Guangxi Normal University Press Group, the flagship products of the bookstore are publications from international famous arts publishing organizations including ACC Art Books, Rizzoli, Taschen, Phaidon, Images Publishing, Steidl, and Thames & Hudson. Book category ranges from art album, architectural design, interior design, landscape design, industrial design to fashion design, graphic design, antique, collections, and photographic album. 

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The space is also a novel arts gallery featured with Chinese artist gallery zone and designer oversea publishing gallery zone. The English version of Book from the Sky to Book From the Ground (by Xu Bing), White: Porcelain Works From Bai Ming (by Bai Ming), Exhibition Building (by Zhang Yonghe), Bug Book (by Zhu Yingchun), and Design Fusion (by Yang Mingjie) are put on sale here. Themed with artist, designer, and arts design, 7 special exhibitions have been planned to hold in the space. The opening ceremony of the space was designed by the School of Design of Huadong Normal University and inspired by the book Made in Shanghai which was published by Guangxi Normal University Press and ACC Art Books. Exhibits such as Feiyue bicycle, Sanwu desk clock, Huasheng electric fan, Shanghai black and white television, Haiou camera, and Baile accordion create a nostalgia atmosphere.  

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Besides, it is a space housing artworks and relevant derivatives. You can find lithographs of limited edition created by Wang Huaiqing, Su Xiaobo, Jin Yucheng, Leng Bingchuan, and Murakami Takashi as well as co-branded products of designing brands such as Bentu and Yang House.

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The space itself is a piece of artwork. In front of the entrance door places a huge bamboo-woven art installation made by the team of Liu Qianxing who is the first person to do bamboo weaving and from Qingshen County of Sichuan Province. It took the team over 20 days to bend the rigid bamboo into a soft installation of curve shape, adding an element of nature to the shipping container architecture featured with industrial style. 

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In the courtyard of the space, there is a frame named Virtual Landscape designed by Designer Yang Mingjie. Consisting of multiple intertwined Y-shaped frames, the Virtual Landscape echoes the trees planted in the courtyard, telling a story of coming from the nature, simulating the nature, and going back to the nature. Notably, the frame is available for sale. You can buy it home to make your own virtual landscape or practical decoration. 

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Themed with the encounter between nature and industry, the Arts Bridge Space attracts urban minds. Desks, chairs, and exhibition stands made of recycled concrete are from Designer Xu Gang’s brand Bentu whose affiliated coffee brand “Nongzao·Rediscovering” café is also run in the space. In the café, the cups are made of recycled sugar cane bagasse, a kind of alternate material of wood.

Address: Arts Bridge Space, No. 11 Building, Zone C, Wisdom Bay Science and Technology Park, Baoshan District, Shanghai.

Subway route: Exit No. 4, Hulan Road Station, Line 1.

 

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