Invisible design from Visplay

The modular systems from Visplay enhance the ambiance of commercial spaces and maximize merchandising impact. Discover their showroom in Diegem.

The Official Ralph Lauren 4D Experience in London

In celebration of 10 years of digital innovation, RalphLauren.com presents the ultimate fusion of art, fashion & technology in a visual feast for the 5 senses. Watch as the London flagship at 1 New Bond Street disappears before your eyes and is then transformed into a series of objects and images rendered in 3-dimensional space. Watch the video...

Theurel & Thomas Maison du Macaron

The Theurel & Thomas pâtisserie has an enlightened space with an exclusivity and elegant atmosphere. The store location is in San Pedro's (Mexico) most affluent suburb. White is a central part of the design and it contrasts with the French macarons colors. Details were an essential part of our work. Each porcelain piece was meticulously selected, creating a balance with sophisticated specks that made the value of the brand and the exclusivity of the product outshine.

Source: Theurel & Thomas, Anagrama

Avenue Road showroom by Yabu Pushelberg

 

Established as a showcase for seductive, sophisticated furniture, AVENUE ROAD is one of Canada’s premier venues for classic and contemporary furniture designs. The Toronto-based company offers a wide range of furniture, lighting and textiles by legendary designers such as France’s Christophe Delcourt and British designer Eileen Grey.

The custom-designed Toronto showroom space is simple and symmetrical, providing a flawless backdrop for the brand’s worldly furniture collections. As if entering a modern art gallery, Yabu Pushelberg has superbly emphasized the natural light and the vertical nature of the space, which unfolds into a series of vignettes as one continues to walk through. Guests entering the luminous main gallery will find themselves amongst the works of Konstantin Grcic, Arco and Atelier Vierkant, each brilliantly displayed underneath the main skylight. The combination of lofted ceilings and streaming light provides the ideal setting for showcasing both the collections and the ultra-modern space. And the latter section of the showroom appears as a walkthrough window connecting to the director’s office and the glass-encased boardroom.

Source: Avenue Road

Micheline Print Boutique

Micheline is a printing boutique founded in Mexico during the mid 70's. Back then, it was very uncommon to find a printshop that offered both design and high-end printing under the same roof. The boutique came to us because they needed their brand and store to express uniqueness, elegance, and modernity.

The space is inspired in the ambiance of print-shops in the seventies: it has a few contemporary accents such as the lighting, which gives the interiors a vanguardist atmosphere. We made sure to use a neutral color palette to focus all of the attention on the shelves holding the printing catalogues, as well as to emphasize the brand's presence.

Source: Anagrama

Hermes Window Display in 2001

After Maison Hermès (Paris, France) opened in 2001, their second window display that appeared was created by Groovisions, a Japanese graphic-design company. It relates to Hermès history being the first company to foresee the potential of the indistrial fastener. The zip is used as a metaphor that unites continents and combines innovation with craftmanship.

Source: Hermes, Groovisions

Cole Haan in Soho

Cole Haan has taken up residence in SoHo (New York, US) since Fall 2010 with a lab-concept boutique designed by Roman and Williams to fuse Cole Haan’s past with present, showcasing the brand’s premium craftsmanship and modern perspective. Unlike any other Cole Haan location in New York, the 160 m2 SoHo selling floor doesn’t feel anything like your typical retail space. This space is where the Cole Haan design studio meets an inviting shopping lounge experience. Andre Leon Talley would be proud to call this his refined urban salon. It’s not like we haven’t said we’d live in one of our favorite stores before, but this time we couldn’t be more serious.

The Cole Haan SoHo locale is where we’ll be flocking to for our next, much needed retail therapy appointment. The large, custom-designed ottoman smacked in the center of the room is plush and comforting, while the metal cabinets and steel and oak shelving lined with the latest and best pieces from Cole Haan’s array of bags, shoes, outwear, and other accessories make it impossible for anyone who walks in to just pick up what they want and go. Roman and Williams, the brilliant minds behind the design of The Ace Hotel, have constructed a layout and design that adds even more to the pleasures of Soho, and is in itself a welcoming, relaxing experience that sets you at ease from the second you walk in the door.

Source: Cole Haan

A new way of exhibiting eyeglasses

Jorge Sousa Santos designed a new optical store in Beja (Lisbon, Portugal) last year. The main purpose of the design was to create a sense of unity in the store’s interior, and to achieve a truly new way of exhibiting eyeglasses. This latter purpose was materialized by the multiplicity of round mirrors in the exhibition wall of the shop. These mirrors are a re-invention of the classic barbershop mirror, having a support for the glasses on one of its sides. The continuous exhibition wall that develops itself through two levels, intersecting an area on the first level and creating a spatial void, accomplishes the sense of unity. This notion of unity is also supported by the choice of materials, by the way some details are materialized and by the choice of the lighting. The acer wood floor becomes the supporting wall of the mirrors, the lacquered surface of the furniture envelopping the whole space in a way it becomes itself the visible surface of the wall.

Source: Mimoa

Via Venetto

Via Venetto is a 30-year old shoe retail store located in Makati City (Philippines). The architects, Buensalido+Architects managed to find a balance between maintaining some of retail store characteristics and infusing them with newer, more contemporary forms. ‘VIA’ refer to path, walkway or roadway and synonymous to the characteristic of ‘movement’. Translated physically, the feeling of movement was represented by a series of undulating archs that loom over you as you traverse inside the store. The experience almost becomes ceremonial. These archs were then interconnected with a myriad of beams, forming a diamond shaped faceted web. The parralelism of the diamond represents the store’s standing in the local retail community – in the same way a diamond has developed its sparkle through time, the brand attained the market’s trust thru time as well.

Source: Via Venetto

The Facade of Zara Fashion Store

This contemporary fashion boutique store interior plan of Zara fashion store in west London’s Westfield shopping centre (London, UK) has an interesting facade that was made from panels of Hi-Macs material. Designer Zara Estudio and fabricators Gruppo Candido Hermida chose Hi-Macs in a Toffee Brown hue, and combined it with a metal trim between the pieces. Using 81 panels of HI-MACS and 3 sheets of steel, the angles and 3-D shapes allowed them to create an intriguing effect.

Source: Zara

The Future of Shopping by IBM

This short demonstration by IBM illustrates how the shopping experience is evolving to meet the demands of the smarter consumer 

Source: IBM