Apartment X is nestled in heart of Beijing. The clients, both of them avid travellers professionally and leisurely, will share a life child-free with two dogs. The design relinquishes a pre-existing bedroom to create a disproportionately large "East meet West" enclosed-but-open kitchen/dining social space.Rendering the tradition of using the TV(living) room as primary social space a thing of the past. The design process was a mutual practice, it was also one for the designer, to ponder what modern living is to our contemporaries: a restful space that brings connection and interaction back home