A fresh, hip vision of Beijing life

As you wake up to a smoggy morning in Beijing, you can almost predict your day: the traffic jam, prolonged office hours and the 7 pm family dinner that is almost a luxury these days.

Furniture designer and curator Gao Yiqiang reinterpreted a typical day in the city with a refreshing twist by integrating furniture from four European countries in his exhibition It's Beijing Time, part of the Beijing Design Week.

"In Beijing, we live a fixed routine everyday that sometimes we don't feel it any more. And in this exhibition we want to awaken the freshness we feel about everything by putting together furniture of unique shapes and colors," Gao says.