Retail Interior | Friendlyhouse | Vienna, Austria | Soehne Partner

The new home of ‘friendly house' DJ equipment is located in a street level shop, which used to be a simple elongated room worth mentioning only for its sculptured vault.
In order to reflect the image of ‘friendly house' as a young, vital company in the interior design, all elements are planned en detail and impress by their distinct design: They appear dynamic and vivid as they traverse the shop in all three dimensions without ever lacking a clear structure. The music's provocative character - new, powerful ideas that are often perceived as irritating by the public - are reflected by intentionally sharp-edged furniture. Shelves running along the walls meet free-standing elements, which share colours and detailing as a unifying design feature......more


location: Wiedner Hauptstraße 39, 1040 Vienna, Austria
start of planning: July 2005
start of construction: March 2006
completion: July 2006
client: Friendlyhouse Oliver Paar KEG
team:
Boris Drusowitsch, Mark Neuner
net area: 180 m2
project status: completed
fotos: Alexander Koller
companies:Joiner: Radaschitz

Retail Interior Design | Hugo Boss Concept Store | Meatpacking District, New York | Matteo Thun

Meatpacking district: rough urban surfaces, the texture of contemporary art, concrete, iron and electricity. Hugo Boss brings its four BOSS lines and the HUGO brand together for the first time: a simultaneous "total look". Brand, design and the spirit of the place.
The shop mixes everything together to state its own naked aesthetics: rock solid and intimate at the same time....more

Client: Hugo Boss
Services provided: Interior design, Lighting
Total building area: 375 m2
Start date: 2007
End date: 2008
Phase: Completed

Retail Interior | Tavalon Tea | nemaworkshop

Tavalon challenged nemaworkshop to not only to develop an identity for the emerging brand, but more broadly change the way people think about tea. nemaworkshop approached the project from through a series of programmatic studies researching multisensory experiences. The overarching concept takes principles of mixing and infusion, which are integral to tea-making process and reprograms the space accordingly. Above the main counter is a dj, mixing sounds, while below the baristas blend teas for customers. At the scent bar customers can sample aromas in small corked viles and create their own olfactory mixes.

The series of multi-sensory remixes are housed in a narrow-but-tall glossy white space, where long lines of light run vertically and horizontally. These woven bands of illumination transform light into an architectural material which in turn defines the monochromatic space. The atmosphere is a vibrant, not only when the live bongo player is banging away next to the DJ, but on a day-to-day basis. The architectural language is aesthetically subtle but programmatically active, facilitating a plethora of sensory explorations.

Retail Interior Design | Anne Klein New York | New York | PKSB

This neutral palette showroom, with its strong diagonal and rotated ceiling grid, was designed to create a sense of warmth and intimacy more akin to a living room than a showroom..........more

Retail Interior |Octium Jewelry | Kuwait | Hayon Studio

Octium, a new concept jewelry shop, opened its doors in October 2009. Located in 360º mall in Kuwait, Octium presents the work of various exclusive jewelry designers from around the globe. Hayon's design offers an innovative approach to an interior. Most elements where custom designed for the project using contrasting finishes like glossy lacquered woods, natural oak, ceramic, luxurious fabrics...more

Retail Interior Design | Kitson Men | West Hollywood, California | Space International

This high profile shopping boutique also shares a unique relationship with the spectacle of celebrity. Steel dressing rooms and display boxes project into the sidewalk, exploring the threshold of public and private spaces of consumption along trendy Robertson Boulevard. The interior of the store is wrapped with an pixelated wood mosaic of a famous starlet’s car crash, spectacularized by paparazzi directly outside the store.....more

Retail Interior Design | Sweet Jewel Cupcakes | DRAW

Taking gourmet cupcakes to the next level. Our brief here was ‘give me the Prada of cupcakes’....more

Retail Interior Design | Voyage London Fagship Store | Blacksheep

Voyage’s London flagship store is a funky and fabulous retail space, created for one of fashion’s most imaginative and extraordinary retailers. Inspired by theatrical glamour, the interior includes a star-studded walkway leading shoppers through the store, a theatrical ceiling rail allowing clothes to be hung, moved and changed on a whim and individual ‘winnebago’ changing rooms, lined with vintage movie wallpaper from classic children’s films....more

Retail Interior DesignApple Store Fifth Avenue | Apple Inc., | New York City, New York Designed By Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

Apple's second Manhattan retail store opened May 19th in New York City. Located at 767 Fifth Avenue between 58th and 59th Streets, the prominent site near FAO Schwarz and Bergdorf Goodman provides views of Central Park.

"We opened our first New York store in SoHo in 2002, and it has been successful beyond our dreams. Now we're thrilled to open our second New York store on Fifth Avenue," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "With outstanding service and an amazing location open 24 hours a day, we think the Apple Store Fifth Avenue is going to be a favorite destination for New Yorkers and people around the world."

The store occupies the underground retail concourse of the General Motors Building, with entry from the plaza level above. "The new plaza in front of the General Motors building on Fifth Avenue at 59th Street is a triumph of urban design." said James Gardner in the New York Sun. "Suddenly, as if out of nowhere, New York has a new public space that will prove to be a source of civic pride and aesthetic delight."

Designers Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and structural engineers Eckersly O'Callahan (glass elements) in collaboration with Apple used Apple Stores' signature structural glass vertical circulation to entice plaza level passersby down to the store's underground main level. The 32-foot structural glass cube marking the store's entrance makes a bold architectural statement. Housing a transparent glass elevator wrapped by a circular glass stair, the transparent cube beckons potential customers down to the retail level below. By day it is a skylight bringing natural light underground, while at night the lighted cube is a sign. "It was in Apple's DNA to try to make something that no one else had the vision to create," said Ron Johnson, Apple's Senior Vice President of Retail.

Visitors descend the glass stair or travel in the all-glass elevator, entering a carefully tailored stainless steel and stone environment where Apple's products take center stage. Custom-designed wooden store fixtures, stainless steel ceiling and wall panels and an Italian stone floor make an elegant, yet restrained backdrop....more

Retail Interior Design By Leong Leong For 3.1 Phillip Lim - Los Angeles

By introducing a thick curving wall within the existing 5000 s.f. building envelope, one large main space unfolds into four smaller nooks. Mirrors along the walls enhance the spatiality of the store and create visual continuity between adjacent spaces. The curving geometry and thickness of the wall allows for the conventional methods of lighting and display to be rethought through the logic of the niche, while a single, continuous light-diffusing membrane floats above the space, giving a sense of depthlessness.

Like the construction of a garment, the curving wall has an inner lining and outer lining. The various spaces generated by the curving wall are lined with textures to create a varying ambient effects.

The exterior facade has no openings except the entrance. The facade is surfaced in a supple pattern of convex concrete tiles.

In collaboration with Para-Project & Office Giancarlo Valle.....visit Leong Leong

Retail Interior Design | Charles Fish Jewellery,Canary Wharf, London Designed By Nigel Coates

Fish

2005

Charles Fish have been selling fine jewellery in the East End of London for 150 years. It follows that their new shop at Canary Wharf should mix history and modernity. This project makes a jewellery box out of the shop itself. Retrieved wardrobes and cupboards are half sunk into the walls, while a new chandelier design by Coates creates a focus for the shop.....more

Retail Interior Design | Cynthia Leight Opticians By Space International | Los Angeles, California

Design for a small eyewear boutique situated in the ground floor of a parking structure. The design takes advantage of this unique situation by creating a horizontal backdrop of product display which runs parallel to the pedestrian activity of Robertson Boulevard. Intricate display elements constructed from glass and stainless steel float between the heavy concrete floor and ceiling of the structure and reflect the delicate craft and precision of the eyewear for sale....more

Retail Interior Design | Microaudio Shop,A Coruña, Spain By Juan Morandeira

A hearing aid store itself is structured as auditory system, but without falling into the typical postmodern mimicry. One zone, more public, visible from the street, characterized by open spaces, predominantly white and whose parts are separated by walls with different perforations. The decor with pictures of a baroque palace gives greater breadth and imposture.
Changing to the query is like stepping into the inner ear. A curved hallway leads to the waiting room, oval, with no windows and a pink light that bathes everything, which seeks an atmosphere of calm, tranquility and security....more

Retail Interior Design | Carlos Miele Flagship Store Paris | Asymptote Architecture

LOCATION: Paris, France
SIZE: 230 sq.m
DATE: 2003
Carlos Miele’s new flagship store, designed by the New York-based firm Asymptote Architecture, opened last year at 380 rue Saint-Honoré. The design of the 230-square-meter, two-story store takes its inspiration from a combination of influences including Brazilian masters Oscar Niemeyer and Roberto Burle Marx and their interest in abstract figurative affinities, the French Baroque and Parisian Art Nouveau, all tempered by the precision inherent in new technological means of manufacture and design. The store was conceived to be an engaging environmental art installation where fashion is an inseparable part of the experience....more

Retail Interior Design | Carlos Miele Flagship Store New York City By Asymptote Architecture

LOCATION: New York, USA

SIZE: 5,400 sq. ft.

DATE: 2003
Asymptote’s design for fashion designer Carlos Miele’s flagship store in New York City celebrates the designer’s Brazilian culture, one that champions modern design while being steeped in traditional cultural rituals and aesthetics. These aspects of Miele’s own work were the inspiration for the flagship which is both a shopping environment and a sophisticated and sculpted backdrop on which to display. The store has received numerous awards including a 2005 AIA New York Chapter Design Award and an American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum in 2004....more