Although there are not too many hard walls that function as partitions, the eaters are brought into different atmospheres through highlighting the effects of the changing in the areas under the status of four-dimensional space so as to form emotional stay of people on different drama scenes in various areas. Therefore, divided areas are naturally formed in the hearts and eyes of the eaters. Of course, where area division is concerned, the designing also adopted some rather traditional and direct methods, such as an elevated area forming a dispersion in height, etc. No matter whether the overall style of the restaurant is being confirmed or the various designing elements are being utilized, all these must be established on the basis of correct positioning of spaces.

The Pocket Money Restaurant exists in the spirit of attracting young people, subverting traditional dishes, pursuing changes, innovating with tastes, and being brave to break through. Because the design has combined the dramatic, artistic, and expressive forms of “stage drama”, the space is intended to be used for the expression of drama, abstractness, contradiction, and exaggerated emotions, so as to conform to its identity as a break through and creative restaurant. “Post-modernism” had thus been born, and become the core word for its designing language.

The word “post-modernism” first appeared in the book “Spanish Poetry Anthology” written by a Spanish writer De Onis to describe the reverse motion occurring within the interior part of modernism. In the 1960s, deconstructivism came into being in the wake of “God is dead” of Nietzsche, Heidegger's phenomenology, and the “May 1968 protests in France” sweeping Europe. It stresses the freedom and banter of thinking and proposes to break, overlap and reconstruct, and promotes the dissipation of a body so as to achieve a feeling of uncertainty, which had a tremendous influence on post-modernism.

The appearance of post-modernism is a kind of criticism on modernism and an inheritance based on this criticism. The designing principle of overturning and reconstructing the existing vocabulary relationship and logically negating tradition has been taken to produce new and alternative aesthetic significance. The designing philosophy of post-modernism completely discarded the seriousness and simplicity of modernism in interior design. On the contrary, it strengthened the vagueness and bantering and transformed the coldness and rational rebellion of modern design into a kind of ridiculing method, to be adopted in the designing of details so as to intentionally produce contradictory and deceptive emotions. This kind of emotion resulted in non-traditional coloring techniques and a lot of details filled with decoration feeling in the creation of the space.

There are rich and highly pure bright colors utilized in all parts of the Pocket Money Fashionable Chain Restaurant, and the large amount of “Pop-Art” decorations on the walls are the most direct manifestation of them. Meanwhile, post-modern art also contains a kind of historical metaphor. Within the restaurant, a traditional arch manifested abstractly and classical sculptures from Renaissance area Europe can be seen everywhere, and have formed strong contrast and collision with the modern simple and abstract plane. This simultaneously also implies the various kinds of changes and creations of the dishes within this Restaurant.

The Pocket Money Restaurant has always attracted a lot of eaters with its excellent but cheap cuisine as well as continuously creative dishes, while what has rendered the eaters full of enjoyment and forgetful of leaving has been the novel, exquisite, and charming environment and design of the restaurant.

The initial inspiration for the design of the restaurant came from the art of drama related to living theatre. It is different from the style setting of an ordinary dinning space, and the designers wished to build the interior space of the Pocket Money Fashionable Chain Restaurant to be a multicolored
stage, where there are lamps, music, and props. The eaters subtly become the “leading character” of the stage in their immersion in the scene, and the strong feeling of being drawn into the indoor environment could easily make people feel “lost” in the scene of the stage and the designed scenario so as to achieve resonance.

The highly pure color, the background of spotlights, and the displays with a rather strong prop feel seem to all be a visual feast resulting from a joint performance of the designer’s hands. Where the space structure designing and functional displaying of the restaurant are concerned, the designing also uses stage plays as its source of inspiration. The whole restaurant is a one floor space and it is displayed to the surrounding area with the working area as its center. On the basis of taking reasonable kinetonema as the center, the design separated the whole space into a “scene” with driving force and a multiple area pattern.

The application of lamplight is also one of the more important elements in this case. Based on the premise of meeting the needs of lamplight for dinner, the designer hopes to achieve more “dramatic” effects through the application of lamplight, to use the changes of light and shadows to draw the outline of the weakness, solidness, and strength within the scene, and to utilize the relationship between brightness and darkness to activate the emotions and participating feelings of the eaters, thereby intensifying a kind of dinning atmosphere that is filled with vitality, relaxation, creativity, and tolerance.

Through its differences from the set styles of ordinary dinning spaces, the designer hopes to create in the indoor space of the Pocket Money Fashionable Chain Restaurant a colorful stage where the lamplight, music, and props are able to narrate the charm of art. The eaters coming here would subtly become the “leading character” on the stage immerging in the site. In addition, the strong feeling of being brought into the indoor environment could easily make people feel “lost” in the scene of the stage and the designed scenario so as to achieve resonance.