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Studio Profile

Founded in 2016 by partners Yifan Wu and Mengjie Liu, Sò Studio is an innovative interior, and industrial design practice based in Shanghai. Its scope of work spans from commercial complex, retail space, hospitality, public institution, office, medical space, and private residential. Sò Studio is composed of a dynamic team with diverse background, of whom have practiced in art and design with a global worldview.

Sò Studio conducts a comprehensive research prior to schematic design, and we work closely with our clients to employ a bespoke design approach by following the authenticity of each project with emphasis on the cultural influence and unique form of the site. Our projects range from varied scales and types, from creative concept for retail stores, hospitality to collaborating with top developers to re-image commercial interiors, hence, the diverse explorations enable us to place an emphasize on expressing narrative in spatial design. By virtue of applying imagination in our design language to create inspiring space with powerful visual impact, Sò Studio aspires to deliver a better vision of life and probe into the society values while curating spatial design and user experience.

Yifan Wu and Mengjie Liu, the founding partners of Sò Studio, have several years of multi-cultural study and working experience, which have reinforced their appreciation towards the boundaries of different culture and design trends. The establishment of Sò Studio is to express their efforts in bringing distinctive aesthetics and clever use of material details under interior, and industrial design contexts, to pitch in new possibilities of spatial design developments.

Sò Studio has designed and completed a number of projects across different design disciplines. Our projects have been featured in many professional design media, for instance, wallpaper*, dezeen, archdaily, domus, interni, architizer, FRAME, yellowtrace, DIVISARE, Hospitality Design, Hinge, Architectural Digest, ELLE DECOR, IDEAT, archiposition and gooood among many other domestic and international press. During the past six years, the studio is named The 100 Most Influential Architects and Interior Designers in China 2019 by Architecture Digest 100 and our projects have been awarded by many international prizes, like RFRAME Awards, Architizer A+ Awards, Best of Year Awards, Restaurant&Bar Design Awards, World Interior News Awards, DNA Paris Design Awards, International Design Awards, Elle Decoration China Interior Design Awards among many others.

year of establishment: 2016 

based in: Shanghai, China

co-founder&design directors: Yifan Wu, Mengjie Liu 

design scope: interior design | product design | installation design

 

address: Room 402, No 555, Hai Fang Road, Shanghai, 20040

website: www.sooostudio.com