As part of celebrating their 100 years in Japan, English tea brand Lipton organized an event where japanese design group, Nendo designed a cafe for them based on the Mad Hatter’s Tea party from the famous book, Alice in Wonderland.
For the cafe, Nendo borrowed from a scene where Alice eats a cake and then finds her perception distorted where some of the chairs become too small for her to squeeze into, while others are so large that her feet cannot touch the ground.
Thus, the size of the long table in the installation and the rows of chair are distorted in order to heighten the room’s sense of receding depth. The walls also narrow towards the end to enforce the optical illusion.
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Wow, that looks pretty wild! So is that cafe going to become a permanent thing that actually takes on customers, or is it just a special display that will be up for only a short time?
Comment by TheBizofKnowledge — 8/27/2006 @ 3:32 am