Location: Beijing, China — Yintai in01 , CBD / Guomao
Client / Brand: Xin Jing Xi — High-End Beijing Hot Pot
Category: F&B — Fine Dining / Contemporary Chinese Hot Pot
Completed: 2024
Design: Brand design language by Yu Zhao for flagship; CBD store follows established palette
Duan Yu didn't set out to open just another hot pot restaurant. From the first store in Sanlitun, the brand's intent was clear: fold Peking opera, cloisonné enamel, cocktails and copper-pot mutton into one room — without it feeling like a costume party. The Guomao Yintai location carries that same logic.
The floor is the boldest call in the whole space. ML-OT008 — cream-white rectangular marble modules laid in a geometric weave, set into a dark terrazzo base — runs across every inch of floor, from the entrance corridor through to the main dining area. The pattern reads like a continuously repeating lattice: dark ground holding up bright stone bars, high contrast throughout. In a dim space, this floor is basically the only high-contrast element in the room.
Walk in and a few things register. There's the long bar counter — a colorful marbled striped surface running its full length, backed by a row of dark wood stools with light-gray fabric seats. On the bar sit blue-and-white porcelain vases and cloisonné copper pots; every table gets its own handmade enamel hot pot. Overhead, the ceiling does a star-field light array, like a low night sky. The walls are dark gray textured coating, non-reflective, pulling all the attention downward — to the floor.
That's the reason ML-OT008 works here. In a space built on dark tones, you need a floor material that can hold its own. Pure black is too heavy; pure white fights the mood. lands in between: the dark base disappears into the environment, the bright marble weave gives rhythm and visual breathing room. And the pattern is large and continuous enough that cutting and fitting it never breaks it into fragments.
Technically, the install demanded precision. Panels had to match irregular architectural edges — the curved corners of the bar, the narrowing corridor, the cuts around columns — every piece was a custom size going out the door. The concrete composite advantage shows here: same visual weight as stone, far lighter, easy on a mall floor's load limit, and tough enough for a hot pot restaurant's constant oil, spills and shoe traffic.
Yintai in01 sits in the CBD core — office towers all around, steady lunch and dinner crowds. Putting a floor this assertive in that location is itself a statement.
