Shop Design and Displays

[BerlinRocks]

McQueen store in LA images have been posted ...
but here is the text

Architect William Russell of Pentagram has completed a new store for fashion designer Alexander McQueen on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles.
A sculpture of a human figure by Robert Bryce Muir (below) is suspended in a light well above the entrance.The LA store is the fourth Russell has designed for McQueen, following outlets in London, Milan and New York.

William Russell has designed the new Alexander McQueen store in Los Angeles. The flagship shop is located on Melrose Avenue on the corner of Melrose Place and is the latest in a recent expansion by McQueen, which has seen Russell designed stores opening in Las Vegas, Moscow, Bahrain, Osaka and Vilnius.
The stores employ the interior design language created by Russell and McQueen for the three original Flagship Stores in London, Milan and New York, creating a branded spatial experience full of drama and intrigue.
The theatrical quality of the interior, inspired by McQueen’s extraordinary catwalk shows, compliments the clothes while the limited palette of materials and precise detailing allow the collection to stand out.The Los Angeles store is unique for two major reasons. Most importantly, because this was a new-build project on a vacant site, Russell was able, for the first time, to design the form of the exterior as well as the interior.Working closely with the landlord he has created a streamlined building in stucco and curved glass to the street with a large private courtyard behind.
The second point of difference is the installation of a large sculpture by Robert Bryce Muir. Visitors to the store are greeted by the feet and legs of the piece, entitled ‘Angel of the Americas’, suspended through a skylight above the entrance.With his head and shoulders outside the store, the figure appears to be levitating.

 

[BerlinRocks]

Reed Space - Tokyo
- dezeen -

Having a concept of ‘Cultural Community Centre’, we focused on how commercial space could co-exist with the public space. To make the space more open for people who are not familiar with design or art, even those not knowing the shop, we tried to make the boundaries of the inside and outside uncertain.
The symbol of the community centre is the same as the NYC shop; we used the small wooden chair attached to the wall and restroom door. Jungle Jim, also a symbol of a park, has multiple uses, for the stairs and shelves.
These plans are selected to covey the message of “Cultural Community Centre” in a playful way for people to enjoy the space. Every detail is thought out to make the space simple as possible.
On the ceiling there are 16 speakers that look like light bulbs; the sound flows down. The sound plan was done with Komatsu Sound Lab. These details make the people not only shop, but make them comfortable to stay longer.The division of the gallery space is made by the difference of the floor height. Also the chairs on the wall can be taken off, which enables the gallery wall to be bigger or smaller.This attention to the boundaries of the two spaces makes the both spaces’ functions to be independent, and involved in a certain way.
We hope that this place will be a communication space where people could meet with creativity.

project name : reed space.
completion Date : 2006.09.16
type : Interior Design
location : Aoyama, Tokyo, JAPAN
total floor Area :117.98 sqm

 

[BerlinRocks]

Art & Culture Building, Rotterdam
i guess this is the library or bookshop

same source

Dutch designers OD-V have completed the interior of a public area in the new Art and Culture Building in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

 

[BerlinRocks]

LaboBrain and LaboShop, Paris
same source

LaboShop - Mathieu Lehanneur at the Laboratoire
Designing new layouts for the Laboratoire, Mathieu Lehanneur has created functional spaces on the borderline between art and science: LaboBrain is a private think-tank, LaboShop, a public sales outlet.


LaboBrain
The LaboBrain is a tailor-made all-white studio for David Edwards, the founder of Laboratoire. It is a gym, a place for working out thought, with all the appropriate tools cerebral athletes need to hone their performances. Projected in brainstorming mode, the user does not have a sit-down work post. He works moving about in front of a concave Velleda screen, a secret alcove that is also a surface where this space age cave-man scrawls ideas and drawings, a sounding board for the creative intellectual.
Buckminster Fuller haunts this alternative space for thought-on-the-move. The cool old self-taught theorist-architect is present in every detail of a solution that puts together science, art and design. In homage to his geodesic dome, a half-deflated leather soccer ball offers laid-back rest between two work-outs, while under the floor-level grate, plant-life is busy eating CO2 and pumping up oxygen to bring organic relief to the interior Almost classic, the table and chair in the office of David Edwards’ assistant is the right-side lobe of this brain, the rational part for organization and storage. But there is one constraint: not a single stray artefact to catch the eye. A wall of immaculate white cardboard boxes salutes the Imac in manual mode, and will serve for several years of paper archives.
A wall of boxes also figures in the main space, but in sheet metal. Their sides embossed in a wafer pattern call to mind a New York hot dog stand revamped to Italian design codes: chic, stained, shiny, and with a leather hand hold. Pop-style luxury in a place that pulls together the USA and France.


LaboShop
Display/hide - Schizoid Jekyll & Hyde is on the job in this split personality space. By day the LaboShop is a bookshop-sales outlet for experimental pieces straight from the Laboratoire, like the ‘Whif’ aroma inhaler, or ‘Andrea’, a commercial version of the ‘Bel Air’ prototype.Come night though the entire commercial fit-out retracts to ceiling level to become luminous caissons, freeing up the floor-space for people invited to the FoodLab piloted by Thierry Marx, a place for culinary and molecular experimentation, otherwise located at basement level.However small it may be, this is a volume that has eyes bigger than its belly thanks to a remote-controlled pantograph system. Mobile architecture that reconfigures as if by magic, as fantasy-ridden as vintage cameras with their fold out/fold in (display/hide) mechanisms, in disappearing floor and ceiling.

Le Laboratoire
4 rue de Bouloi
75001 Paris
M° Palais Royal

 

[gius]

nice new additions, berlinrocks

i like also the different ways they've thought of, for cupboards and storage places..
i like this one, boxes in the ceiling, in the skylights...

 

[Marvystone]

undercover at Isetan

honeyee

 

[Marvystone]

Moschino London

notesbynaive

 

[leyla m.]

i saw that moschino one IRL and thought "what a brilliant idea!"

 

[runner]

pleats please issey miyake roppongi from last fall

isseymiyake.co.jp

 

[JuiceMajor]

Lanvin, Savile Row, London

s: own pic

 

[BerlinRocks]

Lanvin madness continues ...

in Paris, 2009

-10 MAGAZINE blog-

 

[BerlinRocks]

Villa Moda, Barhain

Designer Marcel Wanders has completed the interior of fashion store Villa Moda in Bahrain.
The heavily patterned interior includes mannequins with mirrors in place of heads.

Villa Moda
Marcel Wanders proudly announces the opening of Villa Moda Bahrain. Villa Moda is a multibrand luxury fashion store founded by Sheikh Majed, one of the driving forces behind fashion in the Middle East. For the interior design of Villa Moda, Marcel Wanders found inspiration in the traditional souk, creating a melting pot of cultures full of surprising details:
“The souk is the ultimate marketplace, a concentration of innovation and tradition, diversity and intimacy. Lose yourself in labyrinth passages and find yourself anew. We designed Villa Moda Bahrain as an international Babel of fashion, in order to share instead of divide. Meet the people of the own streets; shake hands and learn each other’s language.”
The prestigious Condé Nast Traveller Innovation and Design Awards 2009 short listed Marcel Wanders for the interior design of the Villa Moda store in Bahrain in the Retail category.

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Lead Designer: Marcel Wanders
Design team: Marcel Wanders, Karin Krautgartner, Aino Kavantera
Location: Bahrain, UAE
Client: Sheikh Majed al-Sabah
Completion of Project: June 2008
Photography: Marcel Wanders studio

source : dezeen.com

 

[polkadot23]

DOKKIM, a fabulous very unusual wonderful handbag shop on Worth Avenue, Palm Beach, Florida (no email address - just a shop in Palm Beach and Massachusetts - the most beautiful, simple handbags).
photo by JC Adams
streetstylelondon.blogspot.com

 

[polkadot23]

Worth Avenue, Palm Beach, Florida

streetstylelondon.blogspot.com

 

[polkadot23]

Chanel, Bond Street, London

photo by JC Adams
streetstylelondon.blogspot.com

 

[BerlinRocks]

Sartorialoft, 1820 Industrial St., Los Angeles.

With an exceptional line up of designers and a perfectly off the path location in downtown LA, Sartorialoft is making big moves. Currently open by appointment, the boutique, housed inside a raw brick-walled space, carries designers such as Carol Christian Poell and Damir Doma alongside virtually impossible to find, archived pieces from Carpe Diem and it’s off-shoot labels. Sartorialoft is also the first store in North America to carry the up and coming Japanese label Individual Sentiments as well as Perugia, Italy based designers Mariavittoria Sargentini and Alessio Zero. Two noteworthy young American labels are LA based Austin Sherbanenko’s Odyn Vovk and Albert Huang’s Collateral. Needless to say, Sartorialoft has already stepped its foot down on the LA retail scene. Scoute readers can expect to hear more about the boutique in the near future.







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[BerlinRocks]

Darklands 2.0, Berlin

Staying true to its guerilla concept, Berlin based boutique Darklands has moved to it’s second location in downtown Berlin. Located nearby down the street from the previous space, Version 2.0 houses the same designers but decor-wise a very different aesthetic with white walls and pale concrete floors. Read on for images from the store.






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[gius]

orig. posted/scanned by redsquad |

Caption: "Here we installed Rei Kawakubo's own superbly grim, gray paper-mache mannequins, 17th street, 1987."

Source: Doonan, Simon. Confessions of a Window Dresser. New York: Viking Studio, 1998.

 

[classicalbang]

Dover Street Market, London



doverstreetmarket.com

 

[classicalbang]

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