Dezeen

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

When it came to devising a fit-out for the Notabene store in Copenhagen's Old Town, Norm Architects worked on fostering "contrast and beauty" between the site's existing industrial features and the warm, tactile material palette that the studio felt was representative of the footwear brand. The store's main room has exposed concrete walls.

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Dezeen

JANUARY 12, 2022

The shelving extends across the ceiling to form an arched form that the studio described as "an exploration of gravity vs weightlessness". Blackened wood covers the floor of the room in contrast to the exposed concrete of the cafe's other spaces. Linehouse designed the store to evoke a spaceship.

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Dezeen

JULY 26, 2023

The floor was coated uniformly with cement mortar, creating a continuous surface throughout the interior while providing a contrast with the chunky cobblestones laid in the entrance hall. The main collection is displayed on these steel shelves, illuminated by a light that's brighter than the general light in the store," the studio said.

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Design Wanted

JULY 22, 2021

Form follows function ” goes the old saying, a design directive prioritising an object’s use before any unnecessary decoration. The collection can be experienced at its showroom in Milan’s Piazza Cavour, a former cinema which the brand renovated as its flagship in 2008. Who said furniture isn’t art?

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Design Wanted

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Discord the craft of French designer Paul Coenen using the flexibility of sheet metal to form rigid structures in his ‘Tension’ series. “I A pivotal moment for me came in 2008 during the global financial crisis when Taylor was working mainly as a silversmith at that time and almost overnight my customers just stopped coming by.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 16, 2021

Once popular in the 90s through to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the brand was quickly cannibalised by Nike and Adidas, and eclipsed by other local competitors. In contrast, Victoria’s Secret has been on the decline since the time it debuted in China after the backlash grew from its Shanghai Fashion Show in 2017.

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