Needless to say, the fame of MoMA is global, and the art institute cleverly banks on the appeal through retail. Every design aficionado who’s been to New York City knows about the MoMA Design Store in the premises of the revered museum, but few know about the outposts overseas. Mind you, the MoMA Design Store …
Although only a few outside China have ever heard of sneaker brand Warrior, it has been a household name in the homeland since its inception in 1927. And now, approaching its 100th anniversary, Warrior is stepping up its retail presence at home base Shanghai with a flagship store that’s dedicated to Warrior 1927, its on-trend …
Antler is a British travel brand with over 110 years of design and travel expertise behind it. In collaboration with award winning retail design agency Checkland Kindleysides – they created a ‘home of Antler’ that transforms the traditional luxury luggage store into a contemporary travel lifestyle destination.
La Donna is a contemporary boutique where retail is transformed into
Human Haus TN transforms a traditional townhouse in Tainan into a contemporary retail space driven by architectural sequence. Responding to the existing structure through minimal intervention, the design preserves exposed brick walls, timber roof framing, and the original proportions of the townhouse while inserting a crisp white volume as a new spatial layer. Selective removal …
Jonathan Anderson has wowed Dior fans across the planet with his first collections, and that’s a huge vote of confidence for the iconic fashion house, and it’s one which also translates in boosting its retail presence whenever and wherever possible, especially in its most important markets. Needless to say, Japan is one of them. Here, …
Renovation of a timber warehouse in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Tokyo, into a hair salon. The client, Hiroyuki Nagae, approached us with the idea of creating a place that could offer a unique experience beyond the conventional format of a hair salon. In addition to everyday salon work, the space was intended to accommodate seminars for fellow hairdressers, …
Based in Berlin, FORMEL+SKIN was founded in 2019 by trained dermatologist Sarah Bechstein, Florian Semler and Anton Kononov. As a medically grounded skincare brand, the company initially started operations online, standing out in the crowded and highly competitive beauty landscape with a diagnostic approach—customers complete a medical questionnaire, upload images of their skin, and receive …
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Messina Glenelg approaches the gelato shop as a social interior – one shaped by nostalgia, collective memory and the rituals of summer. Rather than resolving the brief as a conventional hospitality fit-out, the project uses boldness as an architectural strategy, translating the simple pleasure of gelato into a spatial experience that is public, generous and …
After exiting as the womenswear creative director at Calvin Klein in 2016, Francisco Costa took some time off and returned to his native Brazil. Here, the designer explored the sprawling Amazon rainforest for the very first time, becoming acquainted with indigenous people, their culture, and last but not least, a local substance called Breu. The …
