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Gandys announces New London store inspired by travel and purpose-driven design

Retail Focus

The new store also features a carefully curated selection of third-party brands, including Nalgene Water Bottles, Cocoon (microfiber and eco travel towels), Klippan Blankets, Exclusive travel books, Kind Bag, Baggu, Sophos (dry bags), Shepherds of Sweden and Union of London. They are currently funding 10 major projects in 8 countries.

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The Adoption of Pop-Up Stores by Luxury Brands

Retail Focus

The Japanese fashion label Comme des Garçons, with founder Rei Kawakubo, notably launched the first pop-up store in Berlin in 2004, drawing crowds with normal retail-priced items and creating a sense of urgency that remains influential in shoppers today.

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“A creative polymath”: Isamu Noguchi’s life explored in new Barbican exhibition

Design Week

A landscape artist? The answer is yes,” according to Barbican curator Florence Ostende. Ostende has curated the Barbican’s upcoming exhibition on Japanese-American designer and artist Isamu Noguchi. Isamu Noguchi (design) with Shoji Sadao (architect), Play Equipment at Moerenuma Koen, 1988-2004.

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Granado’s 154-year journey to bringing Brazilian fragrance to the world 

Inside Retail

In 2004, Granado acquired Phebo, Brazil’s first luxury perfumery, which first launched in the 1930s, and began creating colognes, perfumes, and other fragrance products that call to mind the company’s home country.

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S+S STUDIO: Redefining Luxury in Restaurant Design & Beyond

Design Middleeast

On graduating in 2004, we founded S+S Studio, hired our first employees, and by 2005, we completed our first international project – an apartment in Hong Kong, we mostly designed residential projects at that time. They were a breath of fresh air, with artistic challenges that took all our creativity to solve.

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