Designing the LRI design hub
Award-winning interior designer Jigs Adefuin, principal designer at Adefuin Design Studio and Sigvard Selections, gives LRI Design Plaza a new competitive edge with Filipinized art deco look.
LRI’s new space design concept is an amalgam of artistic impressions, the expertise of Adefuin and renowned Filipino master muralist Alfred Galvez.
The concept showcases Filipino heritage through wall murals depicting rural scenes, products, and cultural nuances from the country’s three main island archipelagos of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
While the focus of the renovation generally uplifted the morale of the space, Adefuin ensured that the concept, as per the vision of LRI Design Plaza president Toni Lo, highlights LRI as a design hub.
In redesigning the design center, Adefuin chose metal and wood as focal theme thus metallic paints were used for the walls while Luxen luxury vinyl tiles for the flooring. “The flooring was changed; it now has a geometric pattern. The facade was also changed. The structure was retained but Filipiniana and Art Deco design elements were injected,” he noted.
Additional eye-catching aesthetics were done in accordance to feng shui philosophy as recommended by Feng Shui master Princess Lim-Fernandez.
“Customers reacted positively to the new, more polished look. The new design matched the profile of its tenants and clients. We want to make everyone feel welcome, and inspired. It also became true to its core: it now looks like the ultimate go-to place for stylish furniture, award-winning designers, and an art hub,” Adefuin added.
To add visual interest and to breathe life to LRI Design Plaza’s passionate affinity to Filipino craftsmanship and tasteful artisangrade designs, the Rico Renzo group tapped Alfred Galvez and his team to execute the design.
Completely doing away with colorful tones for the wall mural, Galvez and his team of artists played around five gray tones and platinum highlights to achieve a sophisticated “shadow and light” engraving effect. The murals adorned each challenging curve of every floor (Luzon for the first floor, Visayas on the second, and Mindanao for the third level at the dome) and are replete with faux columns and baroque elements.
For LRI Design Plaza president Toni Lo, the ambitious design initiative not only pushed the hub’s edge amid the arrival of foreign competition, but it more so puts into significant highlight the Filipino brand of artisanship, be it in furniture design, interior elements, and visual displays.
“Since the time LRI design Plaza was launched as a one-stop shop for furniture, furniture accessories and art, it has undergone periodical interior design changes. This time, we want to promote LRI Design Plaza as a premium high-end destination for Philippine-made furniture meeting international standards in terms of design, pricing and quality,” Lo said.
LRI Design Plaza is located at 210 Nicanor Garcia Street, Bel-Air II, Makati City. IDr Jigs Adefuin can be reached via email: jigs@adefuindesignstudio.com, phone: (632) 555-1271, or visit www.adefuindesignstudio.com. His design firm, Adefuin Design Studio, is also located at the Suite 309 of LRI Design Plaza.