Retail Focus

MARCH 14, 2022

A-COLD-WALL* has announced the launch of a second Seoul concept store-in-store this month. Inspired by CAD frameworks, the display’s linear forms and graphic lines intersect with softly rounded signage, branding rendered in both bracket logo and uncondensed type.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 4, 2023

As it forms part of the functionality and the interior design of a store it plays a critical role. Lighting brings retail stores to life; it adds contrast, provides depth, and turns physical surfaces into breathing objects. “It The same design concept is replicated in a spotlight, linear and circular pendant forms.

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Dezeen

AUGUST 24, 2021

Books are exhibited on steel archways and giant geometric display stands inside this book and concept store in Hangzhou, China, designed by Alberto Caiola. Caiola designed the geometric forms and silver coloured surfaces to attract young urban customers to the Harbook bookshop. Mumokuteki Concept Bookstore, Bejing, by LUO Studio.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Christian Louboutin Sydney, New South Wales The plush red carpet welcomes patrons into Christian Louboutin’s new boutique, striking a sharp contrast to the glossy white floors of Sydney’s Westfield CBD mall. Golden spider and giallo sienna marble niches contrast with a grey-blue marble table and grigio alpi marble walls.

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Dezeen

JUNE 1, 2021

Created for independent skincare brand Formoral, the concept store is laid out across a 120-square-metre retail unit in the city's GDA Plaza shopping mall. The store is themed around the concept of retrofuturism. A spherical volume forms an entrance to the store's more private spaces. "To

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Dezeen

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Mosaic tiles made from stone off-cuts were used to form decorative wainscoting in the same creamy beige colour as the facade, which channels 1970s Shanghai interiors. Contrasting green tiles were used to frame the generous window openings revealed during the building's renovation, and to form integrated window seats.

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Design Wanted

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Last year, they merged to form Siete, which in Spanish means seven, a name they chose because of its symbolic value. A contrasting touch-sensitive, stainless steel switch connects the two elements which “ represents the human relationship between Earth and space,” says Fernandez. It’s a visual and tactile experience.”

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Dezeen

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The 80-square-metre retail space belongs to Chinese design brand Jianze and forms part of an emerging cultural district in the city's Liangzhe New Town. The delicate colour scheme also contrasts with the raw concrete ceiling, where exposed ducting and lighting tracks add to the industrial feel.

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Dezeen

JUNE 30, 2023

The overall concept is rooted in a vision to celebrate the distinct context of the project with contrasting shapes and forms, capturing the neighbourhood's cinematic streetscape in a world where bold geometries juxtapose against each other," said Fu.

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Dezeen

AUGUST 7, 2020

Featuring contrasting white polished-marble stair treads, it twists through a circular opening to lead from womenswear on the ground floor to menswear and accessories on the first floor. Sybarite said other details include the irregular wall cutouts that form windows.

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Dezeen

AUGUST 25, 2021

Fungi have an astonishing ability to grow and thrive in the most unlikely places and we wanted to bring that phenomenon to life in our design concept," said the design team. Beside the storefront's large windows, the form of a terraced hill is evoked by a stack of flat thin cushions upholstered in various green textiles and leathers.

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Dezeen

JULY 26, 2021

Black terrazzo floors are contrasted against Sottsass veneer display cases. AMO described the space, which features both neutral and colourful spaces and contrasting combinations of textures and colours, as a space where "Parisian elegance" meets "industrial rawness". The entrance features black terrazzo floors.

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Dezeen

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Crushed shells were used to form the bio-brick partitions at this store for a decor brand in Aqaba, Jordan , by architecture studio FADAA. This material is pressed into a mould to form the brick shapes, dried to harden, and finally assembled into the gridded screens. The bio-bricks are formed in moulds and feature hollow centres.

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Dezeen

JULY 23, 2022

The store in the US capital is the first execution of a new retail concept created for Akris , a family-run fashion house founded in Switzerland in 1922. The boutique debuts a new design concept for the brand's retail spaces. White-painted wood panels form pleats across the walls and ceiling.

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Dezeen

AUGUST 9, 2020

The concept of the project is a hybrid space, there is no determination or boundaries. Translucent polycarbonate doors set in aluminium frames front the exterior to contrast the earthy aesthetic, and allow natural light and cross-ventilation. "By it feels like 'home'." the studio continued.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 6, 2024

Following a digital-first launch exclusively revealed in Vogue Saudi Arabia, Asteri has invested in creative and expressive retail pop-ups, community building and forming pioneering strategic partnerships as the official beauty partner of the inaugural Saudi Fashion Week.

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Dezeen

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Dutch architect Anne Holtrop has remodelled Maison Margiela 's concept store in London adding walls cast in textile moulds to reflect the brand's garment construction techniques. The gypsum casts in textile formwork translate the 'anonymity of the lining' concept into an architectural element," explained Maison Margiela.

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Dezeen

APRIL 3, 2021

Called Moniker Fashion Universe , the 1,500-metre-square concept store is located in the heart of Oslo's shopping district, near the newly renovated Valkyrien Square. This input combined with the concept of the chameleon has strongly influenced the layout of the store. The other menswear zone pays homage to Paul Newman.

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Dezeen

AUGUST 3, 2024

Chinese studio Say Architects has designed a concept store for fashion brand Nice Rice in the seaside resort of Aranya , featuring bright-orange tiles and furniture intended to evoke the colour of a sunset. The glossy orange tiles reflect light onto the white walls, creating an effect that the architects describe as a "golden afterglow".

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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 concept of art design is precisely this synergy,” says the Italian brand’s Art Director, Eleonore Cavalli. Who said furniture isn’t art? Meta-luxury” brand Visionnaire has taken up this same charge.

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Dezeen

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

"Its height starts small and in the back part it ends higher in a nonlinear form, just like a cave," AIA Estúdio founder Alice Tepedino told Dezeen. The metallic surfaces and straight edges of the niches contrast with the organic shapes and materials in the centre of the shop, which is located in the Shopping Leblon retail centre.

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Dezeen

AUGUST 12, 2024

Allgayer's design concept was to create a series of freestanding architectural elements that divide the space into different zones and allow it to function in different ways. The counter is formed of three stacked semi-circles "We were thinking about what a flagship store for a brand is today," explained Allgayer during a preview tour.

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Dezeen

JULY 24, 2023

The exterior of the store is covered with LED screen "The store features recurring themes of currents, reflections and contrasts inspired by landscapes and coastal movements, a bespoke concept of the forces of norwegian nature playing on our shared heritage," Snøhetta explained.

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Design Week

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The crossed legs also form an infinity symbol which “represent the infinite nature of time” The guru’s head is represented by the third circle, while a top knot has been created from the final terminal in the wordmark’s “r” “Order from chaos” Two typefaces have been added to the identity.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Some things, however, never change, and those are our brand pillars, which revolve around concepts of courage, integrity and passion. In contrast, the number of brands that have lost sight of great product and lost their relevance, then failed, is significant. I like to think of the pillars as the foundation of our house.

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Design Middleeast

JULY 13, 2020

Keeping the experience seamless and premium meant rethinking the point of sale area so that all forms of technology and clutter were cleverly hidden within joinery designs. From Mesopotamia – the concepts of agriculture and irrigation were explored. Photography: Michael Kruger.

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Dezeen

OCTOBER 24, 2022

"The space is a reimagination of the traditional retail model, taking the form of an art gallery, with the goal to drive social engagement and exploration," the clothing brand said. The store also features a spacious open-concept layout that was designed to meet BBC's need for a flexible retail environment," said the brand.

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Design Wanted

APRIL 16, 2021

Available as a three and two-seater sofa, dining chair , counter and bar stool, chaise longue and lounge chair, the extreme simplicity of the components is a testament to form following function , whilst maintaining a humorous silhouette and a reductionist aesthetic. What is CGI? Why do Product Designers need it? “My

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Dezeen

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

On has opened a trainer store on London's Regent Street "Our concept was a shoppable science museum in the sense that one of the main things we want to share is that what we do is science-based," said On's head of brand environments Nicholas Martin. "At Its stores form part of On's wider efforts to build its brand internationally.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lighting unique buildings, features, and design concepts Key to the success of every GAIL’s project is providing a lighting solution that fits with each unique building and location. For Cambridge Market Hill, it was incorporating the iconic Cambridge Punts as inspiration.

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Dezeen

JUNE 23, 2021

Custom "timber rotten" chairs designed by British designer Max Lamb were also placed across the store and in niches formed by its curved walls. "In An exhibition and retail space at the rear of the store has a series of shelves organised around a long reflective metal island that contrasts to the curving walls it is surrounded by.

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Dezeen

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Dreams features warm terracotta hues and a contrasting blue sculpture. The owners wanted me to design a concept store around this theme," she added. "I The surrealist concept behind the interior also informed the shapes used on the custom-made furniture and lighting. "I I aimed to design a space that felt like a journey.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In contrast, many Bo & Luca dresses cost upwards of $6000. “We From concept to creation, we strive to create collections that inspire, captivate, and empower the modern woman,” Pittman elaborated. While Temple’s ethos and values are consistent with Bo & Luca, it is able to offer dresses for under $5000.

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Design Week

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Building forms, patterns and lighting have been reinterpreted in the design. Liqui explains that the intention was to create a contrast between the lab aesthetic and the “rustic quality of the artisanal bread”, which will sit on display behind the counter. McDonald’s concept, by UXUS.

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Design Middleeast

JUNE 30, 2024

Of course, this is easier said than done, because the “right” forms and the necessary functions are easier to recognize in retrospect than in the moment of the design process. In 1994, Starck contrasted the “wet room” with the Salon d’Eau, literally translated as the “Water Living Room”.

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All Work

MAY 5, 2022

Autism is one form of neurological difference which comes under the umbrella of neurodiversity, which refers to the different ways the brain can work and interpret information, highlighting that there are many ways of thinking, sensing, and interacting with the world. One contributing factor is the way workspaces are designed.

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Design Wanted

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The concept for the Unstressed chair moves from the exploration of metal plasticity under stress. An exercise in technical skill captured in minimal form, the chair is in perfect contrast to the elaborate colour scheme of Tagadá. “The beauty of this object comes by the intrinsic properties of the material itself.”.

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