04 / Surface & depth
Texture.
A surface that holds the light.
SELECTED PROJECT
Four Seasons · Tianjin
Glass within architecture.
四季酒店
Selected from the POBO project archive.
01Project overview
A quieter backdrop to hospitality.
Four Seasons · Tianjin brings decorative surfaces into lounge and reception settings. Glass appears alongside timber tones, soft seating and warm lighting. The selected photographs show both a room organised around a screen and smaller material details, offering a restrained example of decorative surfaces within a hospitality setting.
02 / A project reading
Background / spatial intent
In the lounge view, seating is arranged on either side of a central axis leading towards a glass screen. The darker surrounding planes frame that destination, while the furniture establishes a more intimate foreground. Other views move towards reception and illuminated wall surfaces. Together, they show how a decorative material can contribute to several moments within an interior without requiring every surface to have the same emphasis.
↗Selected project images
A sense of the detail.
↗From the project material archive
A screen within the room.
An additional view from the Tianjin project archive brings the framed screen into focus. Repeated lines and circles sit beside warmer wall surfaces, showing how the decorative field meets the surrounding interior. It extends the room-scale reading with a quieter view of the panel and its frame.
03 / A project reading
Application of glass
The project brings together decorative printing, inlay and translucent stone-effect glass. Decorative surfaces appear in screens, wall compositions and reception settings. Framed panels provide a destination within a room, while illuminated wall areas become a brighter part of the surrounding palette. Across these views, glass participates in the sequence from arrival to a quieter place to sit.
04 / A project reading
Material expression
Warm light and timber tones give the glass a quiet material context. Dark framing makes some panels read as a clear boundary, while illuminated surfaces introduce a brighter accent elsewhere. Close views shift attention towards graphic detail and surface character. The range of images provides a useful reference for balancing a broad spatial composition with smaller moments of decorative interest around seating and arrival areas.
05Design highlights
Details that shape the reading.
An axial view
The lounge composition leads the eye between seating towards a centrally placed decorative screen.
A material backdrop
Glass is read alongside timber tones and soft furnishings, giving its surface a distinct but connected role.
Several scales
Room, reception and detail photographs connect the larger interior arrangement with the decorative surface close at hand.
Continue the material exploration with these contemporary collection directions.
↗Related collections
A related visual direction.
05 / A mineral expression
Stone Effect.
An impression of the natural.
↗Related applications
Bring the idea into a brief.
Explore design considerations for related uses of decorative glass.
↗Next project
Baoan Arts Centre
Let’s explore the possibilities
Have a project in mind?
Let’s make it in glass.