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Aro Archive store features pastel-coloured rooms and industrial control station

January 22, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Fashion retailer Aro Archive’s pastel-hued east London store was designed by founder Ariana Waiata Sheehan to evoke “a sense of otherworldliness”. The store, located in Shoreditch, replaces the brand’s previous, more industrial store on nearby Broadway Market and was intended to have a frivolous feel. The interior has “a sense of otherworldliness, escapism and fun,”

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Yellow lighting illuminates Le Père store in New York by BoND

January 7, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

New York architecture studio BoND has used tubular lighting to create a bright yellow glow inside this men’s apparel store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The first flagship for cult fashion label Le Père occupies a 1,000-square-foot (93-square-metre) corner unit on Orchard Street. Utilising the store’s large exposure to the street, BoND opted to create

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Buller and Rice salon and shop is a showcase of plant-based materials

January 2, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

East London hair salon Buller and Rice has opened a new venue with an interior design palette that includes seaweed, algae, cork and mushroom leather. Buller and Rice Wanstead is a salon that doubles as a lifestyle store, selling products ranging from homeware to wine. Company founders Anita Rice and Stephen Buller designed the interior

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Space Projects creates Amsterdam store with thatched hut for Polspotten

December 28, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

A curvilinear thatched hut has been paired with terracotta-hued tiles at the Amsterdam store for homeware brand Polspotten, which was designed by local studio Space Projects. The studio created the store to straddle a shop and an office for Polspotten, a furniture and home accessories brand headquartered in the Dutch capital. Characterised by bold angles and

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Rafael Prieto creates “secret garden” for Gohar World store in New York

December 13, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

Designer Rafael Prieto has lined tableware store in New York City with wallpaper made from photos taken in the south of France and antique furniture. Located at 181 Lafayette Street in SoHo, the Gohar World store showcases tableware products designed by sisters Laila and Nadia Gohar. “Gohar World is a tableware universe that embraces tradition,

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Kelly Wearstler adorns Ulla Johnson store to capture the “spirit of southern California”

November 30, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

American interior designer Kelly Wearstler has paired a towering tree with speckled burl wood panelling and vintage furniture by Carlo Scarpa at the Ulla Johnson flagship store in West Hollywood. Wearstler created the light-filled, two-storey shop as the flagship Los Angeles location for Johnson’s eponymous clothing brand. The duo worked together to envisage the sandy-hued

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Chongqing’s hidden factories inform interiors of Harmay beauty store

November 24, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Conveyor belts and cog-like display stands appear within this beauty store in Chongqing, China, designed by AIM Architecture, which takes cues from the city’s underground network of factories. Harmay is located at the heart of Chongqing inside a former shopping mall, with its entrance set below street level. “The store is located underneath a large plaza

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Linda Bergroth designs “user-centric” Cover Story paint shop in Amsterdam

November 23, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

Interior designer Linda Bergroth has added colourful beams to the Amsterdam concept store for plastic-free paint brand Cover Story, which was designed to streamline the redecorating process for shoppers. The “paint studio” is the second iteration of Cover Story outlets designed by Bergroth, who also created the interiors for the Finnish brand’s flagship Helsinki store.

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Ten shops that showcase the “stylistic diversity” of British retail architecture

November 22, 2023 Starr Charles 0

The Twentieth Century Society’s latest book, 100 20th-Century Shops, is a showcase of architecturally significant stores from across the UK. Here, the charity’s director Catherine Croft selects 10 of the most interesting. Described by Croft as a “kaleidoscopic survey”, 100 20th-Century Shops features 100 shops of various styles, ranging from post-war shopping malls to retail

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Akin Atelier houses Gallery Shop at Sydney Modern in “translucent bubble”

November 9, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Curved resin walls define this retail space, which architecture studio Akin Atelier has created for the Sydney Modern extension at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Designed by Akin Atelier with surfboard designer Hayden Cox, the Gallery Shop is located in the entrance pavilion of the gallery that was recently completed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning

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