Dezeen

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Dutch firm UNStudio has revealed a two-storey flagship store for Chinese technology company Huawei in Shanghai with a facade clad in ivory-coloured petal-like forms. The column was positioned to the side of the central atrium as a focal point for visitors and is wrapped by stairs that lead to the upper mezzanine floor.

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Focal Point Harmony Form Reimagine 117

Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The red scale-tiled facades feature throughout, forming a unique and iconic pattern inspired by mirror glass scales installed in the first Christian Louboutin boutique in the Galerie Véro-Dodat, Paris. The focal point is a feature room in a curved form enclosed by a jade-green leather curtain suspended from a custom polished-chrome rail.

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Retail Space Space Focal Point Boutique 130

Design Wanted

MARCH 27, 2021

Green hues, undulating lines and organic shapes – as long as the interior includes features reminiscent of natural forms, those alone can reduce stress, enhance creativity and improve well-being. Biophilic design isn’t just about flora but using lighting to make plants or hanging baskets a focal point is a good start.

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Design Middleeast

JANUARY 25, 2020

Highlight the focal point. It demonstrates the storytelling style, which is an emerging trend in retail design, that takes the clients vision and harmoniously blends it within the interior language and aesthetics along with the brand and products. Online prices are harder to compete with. Maja Kozel of Maja Kozel Design.

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Retail Space Space Social Media Interior 92

Design Middleeast

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Design Space AlUla, a focal point for showcasing AlUla’s wide ranging design initiatives contributing to the vision for AlUla opens today. The architecture, designed by Giò Forma Studio, is a homage to the breezeblock used widely across buildings in the surrounding AlJadidah Arts District.

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Retailing Insight

JULY 19, 2024

Guided meditations are very useful especially for new meditators, as the meditation guide’s voice provides a focal point, and is meant to replace your own thinking with the sound of their voice. Many use toning as a prelude to silent meditation.

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VMS

JUNE 29, 2021

All is created perfectly in line with the Louis Poulsen brand and Danish design tradition, where form should always follow function.

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