Cosmic sweets
Black Star Pastry is a place that will seduce you not only with its sweets, but also with its cosmic design. Linehouse studio and Louis Li, creative director of Black Star Pastry are responsible for the project.
The main goal of the project was to transform an old red brick villa on Yuyuan Road in Shanghai into the first Black Star Pastry flagship store in China. It was conceived as two premises spread over two floors; the ground floor serves as a space for selling Black Star Pastry cakes and coffee, and on the second floor there is a new restaurant space for the Black Star Gallery brand. The combination of these two spaces creates a futuristic shopping complex that encompasses gastronomy, design, art and lifestyle.
Black Star Pastry was founded in Sydney in 2008 and is the creator of the Strawberry and Watermelon Cake. According to the New York Times, it is the sweetness most posted on Instagram.
The cake shop on the ground floor is based on a galactic journey theme, the iconic display in the center contains nine rotating and levitating space capsules, displaying nine cakes marketed exclusively in Shanghai. Stainless steel shelves, which contain thousands of meteorites, rise, bend, and twist towards the ceiling, creating the illusion of rock immobilized in space.
The phrase "we are all just stardust" can be found on the edges of shared tables - each letter seemingly flows from the edge of the table by gravity, marking the transition from concrete to abstract. The first flagship store outside of Australia showcases the new Black Star Pastry brand, with illustrations by one of the world's most popular illustrators, Noritake.
A new staircase lined with rough concrete terrazzo transports visitors to the Black Star Gallery. The dining room features works by four emerging international artists: Rowan Corkill, Olivia Steele, Debbie Lawson and Naoko Ito.
The gallery is a tea room in the afternoon and a cocktail bar in the evening. The ceiling is lined with a metal mesh. The floor is a raw concrete terrazzo slab, which gives the space a sense of wildness and creates a museum atmosphere for art. A private room called There There with an intimate bar is surrounded by a dark blue velvet curtain. The black wooden floor contrasts with the concrete.
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