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David Chipperfield Architects designs minimal Akris boutique in Washington DC

July 23, 2022 Dan Howarth 0

The Milan office of David Chipperfield Architects has designed a minimalist boutique for fashion brand Akris in Washington DC, featuring pleated walls and displays suspended from thin wires. The store in the US capital is the first execution of a new retail concept created for Akris, a family-run fashion house founded in Switzerland in 1922.

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Fabio Novembre launches first concept store in Milan dedicated to his designs

July 21, 2022 Ali Morris 0
Fabio Novembre stool on yellow display plinth in IoNoi Gallery in Milan

Italian architect and designer Fabio Novembre has opened IoNoi Gallery, a hybrid retail space and gallery in Milan with “strongly postmodern” interiors designed to showcase his work. Located on a street corner a few steps from Novembre’s studio, the shop sells a range of products the designer has created throughout his career for companies including

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Aimé Leon Dore’s London boutique homages modernist architect Adolf Loos

July 18, 2022 Ali Morris 0
Walnut cabinetry in Sarita Posada's Aimé Leon Dore store in Soho

New York interior designer Sarita Posada has layered “lived-in” details and rich textures inside the first London store from fashion and lifestyle label Aimé Leon Dore. Located on Broadwick Street in London’s Soho, the two-storey boutique is the brand’s second outpost and first international flagship, designed in collaboration with London-based West Architecture. Rather than riffing

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OMA designs Tiffany & Co pop-up in Paris to take visitors on a “journey across time”

July 8, 2022 Natasha Levy 0
Blue rotunda in Tiffany & Co pop-up shop in Paris designed by OMA

Architecture studio OMA has created a pop-up shop for Tiffany & Co in Paris that showcases an assortment of pieces from the jeweller’s 185-year history. The pop-up is located in the eighth arrondissement and functions as a cross between a boutique and an exhibition, spotlighting Tiffany pieces from both past and present. “Tiffany & Co

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Yuko Nagayama & Associates creates trapezoidal glasses shop and community hub

June 30, 2022 Katie Last 0
Yuko Nagayama & Associates glasses shop

Tokyo studio Yuko Nagayama & Associates has completed a copper-clad eyewear store for brand JINS in Maebashi, Japan, which contains a cafe and rooftop terrace. Named JINS Park, the shop in Gunma Prefecture was designed to act as a space for the community to gather whether they are shopping in the store or not. “We proactively

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Child Studio transforms 19th-century London townhouse into Cubitts eyewear store

June 30, 2022 Natasha Levy 0
Concertina display stand in front room of Cubitts eyewear shop in Belgravia, London, designed by Child Studio

London practice Child Studio has created an “intimate and domestic atmosphere” inside this store by local eyewear brand Cubitts, which occupies a townhouse in Belgravia. Taking over the building’s basement and ground floor, the shop was designed to draw on both the modernist aesthetic of Cubitts’ frames and the history of Belgravia. The central London

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Twisting bamboo installation weaves through Barcelona’s Casa Loewe

June 21, 2022 James Parkes 0
Image of the interior of Casa Loewe

Spanish fashion brand Loewe has reopened its Barcelona flagship, which it has transformed into a gallery-like space with an undulating bamboo installation that winds across its surfaces. Casa Loewe is set inside Casa Lléo Morera, a modernist building created by Catalan architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner off one of the Spanish city’s major shopping streets.

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Attitude of “permanent renewal” drives retail success says Colette co-founder Sarah Andelman in Liganova talk

June 15, 2022 Dezeen staff 0
Liganova Salone Club with Sarah Andelman and Ben Hobson at Milan design week 2022

Promotion: Sarah Andelman, co-founder of Parisian concept store Colette has discussed the unexpected approaches needed to succeed in the future retail landscape in a talk hosted by Dezeen and brand retail experts Liganova during Milan design week. Andelman was in conversation with Dezeen’s chief content officer Benedict Hobson at brand and retail experience company Liganova’s Salone

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Geometric metal fixtures feature in Wuhan’s QYF fashion boutique

June 8, 2022 Natasha Levy 0
Curved stairs in QYF fashion boutique by Sun Concepts Office

Chinese design studio Sun Concepts Office has accented the pale interior of the QYF boutique in Wuhan with straight, curved and squiggly metal fixtures. The interior’s clean, geometric look is meant to reflect the modern womenswear on offer in the store, which occupies two storeys on a prominent corner plot of Wuhan’s Tianyuan Street. As

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Atmosphere Architects creates optical illusion in Chengdu jewellery store

June 2, 2022 Ali Morris 0
KVK jewellery store Chengdu by Atmosphere Architects with gridded black and white floor and ceiling

Geometric grids cover most of the surfaces in this futuristic jewellery store in Chengdu, China, designed by local studio Atmosphere Architects to play with customers’ spacial perception. Located in the Jingronghui shopping centre in Chegdu’s Jinjiang district, the 180-square-metre concept store belongs to jewellery brand Kill Via Kindness, abbreviated as KVK. The store features a

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