Hyundai Card – Cooking Library

Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
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HYUNDAI CARD - COOKING LIBRARY

Blacksheep + One O One Architects

AREA
8157

YEAR
2017

MANUFACTURERS
Diespeker & Co, GUBI, Kristalia , Menu, Michael Anastassiades, The Watermark Collection TWC, Frisian Tiles, Watermark Designs

PHOTOGRAPHS
Kyungsub Shin

INTERIOR DESIGNERS
Blacksheep

CATEGORY
Seoul, South Korea

LOCATION
Library

Text description provided by architect.

London based specialist F&B design studio, Blacksheep has just completed work on The Cooking Library in Seoul, for Hyundai Card (HC), one of Korea’s largest credit card companies.

HC have conceived the Hyundai Card Libraries, as a series of four inspirational spaces designed to provide an ‘analogue’ antidote to the fast pace of city life in the digital age and to stimulate meaningful and inspiring experiences in everyday life.

Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
© Kyungsub Shin
Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
© Kyungsub Shin
Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
© Kyungsub Shin

Each of the Libraries touches on the refined knowledge of various lifestyles, covering realms of Travel, Music, Design and Cooking, the last Library in the series.

Working in collaboration with Choi Wook of One O One Architects, Blacksheep were commissioned to bring the Hyundai Card Cooking Library to life as the last and most ambitious chapter in the series.

Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
© Kyungsub Shin
Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
© Kyungsub Shin
Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
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Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
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Blacksheep created the complete guest experience from interior design through to branding, staff uniforms and packaging.

The Cooking Library creates real-world experiences that unfold as you navigate the space to explore the universe of cooking and food.

Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
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Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
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Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
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Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
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The design brief challenged Blacksheep to create a connected experience over five-floors of the Library that celebrates and brings to life the joys of cooking in Yeongdeungpo-gu, one of Seoul’s most affluent neighbourhoods.

Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
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Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
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Blacksheep worked to create an inspiring world where craftsmanship provides fundamental luxury, tactility invites human touch, and analogue detailing allows visitors to get lost in the romance of time.

Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
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Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
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The Blacksheep design team envisaged a humble factory setting on the outskirts of Europe and translated that into a food laboratory in the heart of Seoul.

It has specified an array of high-quality products from leading European furniture and lighting brands to bring the concept to life and enrich the experience for all HC Cooking Library visitors.

Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
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Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
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Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
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Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
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Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
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Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
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Hyundai Card – Cooking Library
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