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Slow Yangzhou x Xinhua Bookstore / Wutopia Lab

August 12, 2019 Collin Chen 0

Wutopia Lab is invited by client to renovate a Xinhua Bookstore and its annex room in the historic district of Yangzhou. The bookstore is redesigned as a multi-functional box for bookstore, hostel, exhibition, conference and tea house, which presents a possibility of connection of the past and the future of the city of Yangzhou.

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Workstead turns historic Upstate New York house into showroom

August 11, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0
Hudson Studio by Workstead

Design studio Workstead has transformed a 19th-century house in Hudson, New York, into a showroom for its furniture and lighting. Workstead overhauled a property in the Hudson Historic district that was built in the late 1880s as the home of former New York mayor Cornelius H Evans. Featuring a red-brick and carved-sandstone exterior, it is

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Book Tree Structure / School of Architecture, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

August 9, 2019 舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang 0

The “Book Tree” occupies 25 m², consisting a tree structure of bookshelves surrounded by an undulating interactive sitting and reading platform. The tree structure is made of pre-fabricated timber components that is assembled and dismantled by students in 1-2 days, while the platform consists of 50 (600×600 mm) timber boxes of different height. The tree structure is lined with a waterproof fabric, which provides sun and rain protection. It is equipped with LED lighting for reading.

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The Drug Store avoids being a “shady” CBD retailer with gallery-style interiors

August 8, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
The Drug Store in London's Marylebone, designed by Johan Obel and Clemens Böninger

Products infused with CBD are dotted throughout sparse gallery-like rooms inside west London’s The Drug Store, which has been designed by the brand’s co-founders. Situated in the affluent neighbourhood of Marylebone, The Drug Store occupies two floors of a townhouse which formerly served as an exhibition space for works by British artist Damien Hirst. The

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Vibia Showroom / Francesc Rifé Studio

August 6, 2019 Andreas Luco 0

The design of the Vibia’s showroom inside its new headquarters in Gavà, Barcelona, features a series of ideas which we have evolved after several collaborations with the company.The aim was to create a place that, on the one hand, recalls its corporate image in the last trade fairs, and on the other hand, dialogues in a poetic and balanced way with different departments.

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Vibia Showroom / Francesc Rifé Studio

August 6, 2019 Andreas Luco 0

The design of the Vibia’s showroom inside its new headquarters in Gavà, Barcelona, features a series of ideas which we have evolved after several collaborations with the company.The aim was to create a place that, on the one hand, recalls its corporate image in the last trade fairs, and on the other hand, dialogues in a poetic and balanced way with different departments.

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Tokujin Yoshioka puts garment making on show inside Tokyo’s Homme Plissé flagship

August 6, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Homme Plissé Tokyo flagship by Tokujin Yoshioka

An industrial pleating machine is the focal point of Issey Miyake’s Homme Plissé flagship store, which has opened in Tokyo, Japan. The store is located in Tokyo’s affluent Aoyama neighbourhood and is the first flagship for Issey Miyake’s diffusion brand Homme Plissé. Launched in 2013, it exclusively produces micro-pleated items of clothing in lightweight fabrics

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Natuzzi launches Augmented Store for VR furniture shopping

August 5, 2019 Rima Sabina Aouf 0
Natuzzi VR showroom

The Italian furniture brand Natuzzi has embarked on what it calls “a new era of advanced, white-glove customer service” by launching a virtual-reality shopping experience. The brand’s Augmented Store is part of its New York City Madison Avenue showroom. It enables customers to enter a digitally rendered version of their own home in virtual reality

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X+Living creates the illusion of a myriad of staircases at Chongqing Zhongshuge Bookstore

August 4, 2019 Semi Han 0
Chongqing Zhongshuge Bookstore by X+Living

Mirrored ceilings and zigzag staircases help form the perplexing interiors of this bookstore in south-west China, which has been designed by architecture studio X+Living. Tucked away from street view, the Chongqing Zhongshuge Bookstore by Shanghai-based X+Living occupies the third and fourth floors of Chongqing’s Zodi Plaza retail development. As well as providing space for locals

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Ateliers & Showroom Marine Serre / Lemoal Lemoal Architectes

August 2, 2019 Andreas Luco 0

For this studios and showroom project, the architects rehabilitated and refurbished the building to create minimalist, uniformly white interior spaces, adapted to the design firm’s uses and serving as the backdrop for the creator’s complex and colorful universe. The project is an integral part of the context of the “Fabriqué à Paris” label (Made in Paris) whose goal is to develop an “artisans’ hotel” fostering shorter and more integrated supply channels and local production.