2023 Best of Year Winner for Product Exhibition

Alice and the White Rabbit would feel right at home in “Wonderland of Light and Shadow,” Pone Architecture’s mind-bending booth for Nippon Paint at China’s annual Guangzhou Design Week, the largest such event in Asia. The 3,300-square-foot structure comprised a mazelike arrangement of ceilingless spaces above which hung a monumental grid of inverted pyramids, their form inspired by the shape of a character in Nippon’s Chinese name. An interactive lighting column descended from the tip of each upside-down frustrum, illuminating the surrounding walls and sculptural installations, which were painted to evoke the course of a day, from the dusky pink of sunrise through noon’s intense orange to the soft blues and violets of twilight—a magic journey between dream and reality.

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