“Bake Cheese Tart” is a freshly baked cheese tart specialty shop, and was designed by our design firm following the Abeno Harukas shop. Although the intentions were to create a pleasant mis-matched atmosphere in the department store setting, it was also intended to incorporate the history and uniqueness of this area where the shop is located into the design.

There is a steel plate called electro-galvanized steel plate (commonly known as bonderized steel) used inside the body of desktop PCs and for paint base of household appliances. It is a sober material that normally goes unseen. This material was devised to be bent and welded into a polyhedron shape that manages to function as a fixture. The bare material with an empty unstable shape and the freshly baked plump cheese tarts filled with cream cheese are neatly arranged in contrast.

This contrast reflects the scenery of Kobe. For example, a dazzling night view seen from the dark port, or the urban area with Mount Rokko as a backdrop, or the city’s relationship with foreign cultures dating back to the end of Edo period when the port opened up to foreign influences. It is in these contrasts that this city became beautiful and sophisticated.

Such contrast was also aimed to be created in this shop. Without jumping to conclusions like having a yellow wall paper or signage for a yellow product, the goal was for the customers to feel a sense of pleasant mis-match that reflects this area. By this, the sizzling feel of the products and the liveliness of the integrated kitchen is meant to remain in the customer’s mind.

Client / BAKE Inc.
Direction / Seiji Sadakiyo (BAKE Inc.) Ryotaro Katsube (BAKE Inc.)

Interior design / Fumitaka Suzuki (Yagyug Douguten)

Lighting design / Natsumi Fujii (ModuleX Inc.)
Construction / Daichi Saito (Aim Create co., ltd.)
Kitchen equipment / Mana international.inc

Photo / Kiyoshi Nishioka
Photo copy right / BAKE Inc.