Principles and Elements of Design

While looking for an image of an interior of this assignment, I came across this restaurant called Duck Duck Goose. It’s a high end restaurant located in Melbourne, Australia that serves a unique concept they came up with called French Tapas, which fuses French techniques with Japanese and Chinese flare. Their interior design is also just as unique. The entrance is a glossy tunnel that opens up into the waiting area and the dinning is separated into two different areas; the posh black dining room and the less expensive bright white area next door.

The picture I’m analyzing is a photo of the “posh” side. There are lots of horizontal lines on the ceiling and horizontal lines created by the order of the tables and the chairs. There are also a couple of different textures at work in this interior. There’s the glass on the table, the hard black table and chairs, the light, sheer window treatments and the water feature in the middle of the room. The interior also makes good use of color and light. The color scheme is black but it is not overwhelmingly dark due to the light colored table setting, and because of the way they lighted the room. The very interesting pendent light fixtures reflect of the golden ceiling and off the water, while the candles on the table light up each individual table.

Since I can’t see the entire room it is hard to know precisely if it is symmetrically or asymmetrically balanced but I would call it asymmetrical. However, the tables are set in a symmetrical fashion. There is also rhythm with the chairs and tables going down the left side of the picture as well as the arrangement on the tables themselves. These principles along with the elements discussed created emphasis on the water feature.

It is easy to see that this posh dining room is extremely unified. There is no variety from table to table and the colors used are either black or white. However, variety comes into play when you look at lines and shapes of the different pieces used in the room. There are the very square tables with the water feature, while the chairs are curved and organic. Also, on the ceiling there are the rectangular shinny boxes with the long wavy light fixtures. All of the unity and variety comes together to form harmony throughout the room that gives the design sense and beautiful.