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Traditional Korean pavilions inform open-sided Aesop store in Seoul

September 8, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

Skincare brand Aesop has collaborated with designer Samuso Hyojadong to create a store in Seochon, Seoul, that features an open facade and an oversized stone plinth. Positioned in one of the oldest neighbourhoods of Seoul’s Jongno-gu district, the Seochon outlet was created to “fit harmoniously within its local context”, according to Aesop’s design team. When designing

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Odami creates textured minty interior for Aesop Palisades Village store

August 26, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

Mint green materials cover this store for skincare brand Aesop, which Toronto studio Odami designed for the Palisades area of Los Angeles. The Aesop store opened at the end of 2022 in the Palisades, a verdant corner of the city northwest of Santa Monica where several seminal modernist houses are located. “Aesop Palisades Village takes

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“Fashion meets art and design” at Pittsburgh boutique by NWDS

August 20, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

Global team NWDS took a spontaneous approach to designing the Tons fashion boutique in Pittsburgh, which contains a mix of modest materials and iconic furniture pieces. The Tons store in the city’s East Liberty neighbourhood occupies a long, narrow building with its shorter side facing the street. Formerly an atelier, the two-storey structure was reimagined

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Crosby Studios uses steel kitchen equipment to create Berlin jewellery store interior

August 17, 2023 Alice Laycock 0

A faux industrial kitchen and yellow camping furniture feature in this store in Berlin by Crosby Studios for jewellery brand Avgvst. The studio put the space together from scratch using repurposed furniture and fittings including office blinds, camping chairs and kitchen equipment. The space is situated on the ground floor of a 19th-century building and

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El Departamento designs Barcelona eyewear store as a “challenging visual exercise”

August 13, 2023 Kate Jacobs 0

Slight variations in tone and texture differentiate surfaces inside the PJ Lobster glasses store in Barcelona, which Spanish interiors studio El Departamento has finished entirely in green. The shop in the El Born district features walls, floors and stuccoed ceilings all covered in soft, tranquil tones of seafoam green, creating an immersive experience designed to challenge

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FOG Architecture adds playful tailoring motifs to Xiaozhuo boutique in Shanghai

August 9, 2023 Christina Yao 0

Chinese architecture studio FOG Architecture has completed a shop for local fashion boutique Xiaozhuo on Julu Road in central Shanghai that features oversized buttons and zippers. The 300-square-metre shop features tactile surfaces and playful motifs that reference the process of tailoring. FOG Architecture used a glazed facade to open up the front of the shop,

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Piles of green-hued books characterise London Aesop store

August 3, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

The interior of London’s most recent Aesop store in Marylebone was organised to reference a bookshop and features bespoke timber cabinetry by furniture designer Sebastian Cox. Skincare brand Aesop’s in-house design team created the concept for the Marylebone store, which recently relocated from its original home in the London neighbourhood to Marylebone High Street. The

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Plantea Estudio designs intentionally unfinished Veja store “to look like we didn’t do anything”

July 26, 2023 Kate Jacobs 0

Raw finishes and brutalist interventions feature in footwear brand Veja’s first dedicated shop in Madrid, complete with an in-house shoe repair workshop and interiors designed by local firm Plantea Estudio. The retail space is housed in a building in the centre of Madrid, which has functioned as a shop, a restaurant and a bank office

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Blobby sculpture functions as cash desk inside Rains’ Aarhus boutique

July 23, 2023 Kate Jacobs 0

Rainwear brand Rains has juxtaposed minimalist restraint with free-form contemporary artworks inside its revamped flagship store in Aarhus, Denmark. The brand’s first-ever store, originally opened in 2016, was updated with the introduction of industrial touches such as graffiti and stainless steel hardware alongside custom works by local artists. “We want to tickle the customers’ curiosity,”

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Klein Dytham Architecture gives Fender’s first flagship store a welcoming feel

July 12, 2023 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Klein Dytham Architecture has aimed to counter rock music snobbery with its design for guitar brand Fender’s Tokyo flagship store, which is meant to feel welcoming to people who might feel judged in other guitar stores. The Fender store sits across the bottom four floors of the glass-walled Ice Cubes building, a 12,000-square-metre space in

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