Shop Design & Displays

The new store is gorgeous, it's like an enormous Balenciaga runway. I'd love to see how they're going to place the merchandise in this space. Thanks for posting Chanel!
 
YSL Boutique/Tom Ford Era/William Sofield

Does anyone have photos of the YSL boutique designed by William Sofield during the Tom Ford era? The boutiques were absolutely stunning even though they were not customer friendly. Oh well :blush:

Any pics would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
 
One of the worst stores I've seen: Tory Burch. Her Boston store, which I reckon is like all her other stores, is an eyesore--all those tacky gold fixtures and harsh overhead lighting (and that's just the store, nevermind the clothes) :yuk:

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Does anyone have photos of the YSL boutique designed by William Sofield during the Tom Ford era? The boutiques were absolutely stunning even though they were not customer friendly. Oh well :blush:

Any pics would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Not YSL, but here is a picture of some of his work for Tom's Gucci -


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Some more of the Tom Ford for Gucci days -


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Prada x Gatsby
SoHo NYC Store.


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I find it very interesting that guests can walk right up to, and weave in and out of the costumes.
It makes the store, which I feel usually looks and feels like a Museum curation, seem a lot more appealing.​
 
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Tom Ford's new Flagship Store on Sloane Street, London.


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Thank you for posting these. The last picture looks very similar to the YSL boutique.
 
^yeah i'm glad that people dont mention slp...lol

btw love love the first photo!
 
I really love Renzo Piano's Hermés store in Tokyo, a twelve-story building with rooftop garden.


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Does anyone have photos of the YSL boutique designed by William Sofield during the Tom Ford era? The boutiques were absolutely stunning even though they were not customer friendly. Oh well :blush:

Any pics would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

One photo from 2003. Source Getty.

I like Stefano Pilati's YSL store more... Opium red wall is more classic....
 

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£20m overhaul for Selfridges Birmingham

The department store giant is investing £20 million in a major refit at its landmark shop, bringing in a host of new brands and creating about 70 jobs over two years

Selfridges is making its largest investment in Birmingham since it opened 10 years ago, as the renaissance in city centre retail continues.

The department store giant is investing £20 million in a major refit at its landmark shop, bringing in a host of new brands and creating about 70 jobs over two years.

Redevelopment work, which has already begun, will see every floor at Selfridges receive a complete overhaul as the company targets a 25 per cent rise in sales.

The first phase – which includes new dedicated menswear and womenswear floors – will be completed before Christmas, ahead of a major step forward for the city’s retail scene in 2015.

The year ahead will see the New Street Grand Central scheme open – including the giant new John Lewis store – as well as a £50 million upgrade to The Mailbox completed.

Sue West, director of operations at Selfridges, said: “This store is more than 10 years old now and it is logical to really start to look at the spaces. We can see which areas need more, beauty has been crying out for more space for a couple of years now.

“As far as Birmingham is concerned there is a huge investment programme and an amazing 20-year vision,” she added.

“It is something that we have been talking to various parties about ever since we started more than 10 years ago. It is great to see that vision documented for everyone to see, and something like HS2 is an amazing catalyst for all that.”

Selfridges’ Birmingham department store launched in September 2003 and its trademark aluminium disc cladding has become one of the city’s most recognisable features.

But it will face stiff competition when the new John Lewis store – stocking more than 350,000 products and creating 650 jobs – opens alongside more than 40 stores as part of Grand Central.

Meanwhile, the £50 million work at the Mailbox is designed to increase destination shopping at the high-end location. Selfridges has already begun work on its three-year masterplan by expanding its beauty area by 50 per cent. It is also building a new beauty workshop, as part of plans to boost destination shopping.

The workshop, Selfridges’ only one outside London, will offer services like manicures, wash and blow dry, spray-tanning.

It will have moved menswear onto one floor by May 26, with shopfitting starting in September, and both middle floors completed by Christmas.

Giant curved glass window displays at the main entrances in the Bullring mall will also be installed to replicate the imaginative window schemes at its Oxford Street store.

Ms West said the plans were four years in the making, and well-placed to capitalise on improving fortunes for Birmingham city centre.

With the shop bordering on Eastside, Ms West said it was set to benefit from the HS2 Curzon Street Masterplan.

“It’s not so much about shopping. Birmingham is at the centre of the country. High Speed 2 will bring more investment for businesses, create new offices and more manufacturing and bring more people into the shop,” she said. “It all goes hand in hand.”

Selfridges says the work has enabled it to attract new brands to Birmingham, many of which cannot be found elsewhere, including The Kooples and Maje for women, Shu Uemura, Illamasqua, Suqqu and RMK in the beauty hall and Michael Kors, Boy London, Sandro and Burberry in menswear.

Ms West said there would also be a focus on culture, entertainment and events, although she said it was not a reaction to the giant 250,000 sq ft John Lewis set to open in the city in 2015.

She said: “We are not frightened to talk about John Lewis, we sit next to John Lewis in London – we’re only a couple of streets away – and we sit next to John Lewis in the Trafford Centre.

“We see them very much as a very strong retailer and I think for Birmingham it is a great thing they are coming into the city.

“The difference with Selfridges is we see ourselves very much as a destination. We really invest in the customer experience. I don’t think there are many other retailers investing as much as we are investing.”

Ms West said Selfridges had learned much about the Birmingham market in the past decade, and was planning the store accordingly.

She said the fact it is Europe’s youngest city, as well as one of the most diverse, meant it had different demands to the London store.

She said: “We have the ability, because we are only four stores, not 400, to work with each of the markets closely.

“That can be around culture and arts, but we also have the opportunity to look and say Birmingham is performing really well in a certain sector and build up that sector, and bring in new brands.

“Manchester and Birmingham city centres are completely different cities and stores.

“Birmingham we see together with all the development going on as a very strong youth city.

“We think it is becoming a lot stronger on the cultural side of things.

“They love their brands, but a lot of the young street brands do really well here, so we bring in some brands we wouldn’t have in London.”

The £20 million project will be invested in ceilings, lighting, floors, brand fit-outs and shop fits, with the first phase, the middle two floors, completed this year and work on the top and bottom floors undertaken over the next 18 months.

Vicki Cain, general manager of Selfridges Birmingham, said: “We have already begun this programme of transformation, which will be undertaken with the store remaining open throughout. It is an exciting time for the business and I relish the opportunity to help Selfridges prepare for its next decade in Birmingham.”

Selfridges commissioned Ab Rogers Design to redesign the shop floors to maximise the flow of the shopping experience and give added vibrancy to the surroundings.

Its founder Mr Rogers, who is also head of interior design at The Royal College of Art, said: “New entrances will set the store in a dramatic frame, communicating to visitors that they are entering an exceptional retail space that feels fresh and alive. The design carries a strong narrative and will stimulate the eye, offering unobstructed views and clear sightlines to retail displays and circulation routes.

“The existing columns and atriums are exceptional assets and will be used as landmarks to punctuate a space that cries out to be explored; a place which will deliver extraordinary moments as part of an experience that – in terms of both atmosphere and architecture – will be unlike anything in the city.”
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Reinterpreted #LOEWE Madrid stores. Serrano 26/34. Featuring archive images by Steven Meisel and SS15 collection by Jonathan Anderson. #LoeweJWA



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Ermenegildo Zegna unveils its first Global Store in Osaka designed by architect Peter Marino.

Located in the heart of Osaka’s luxury shopping district Shinsaibashi-suji in the Chuo-ku ward, it showcases the Ermenegildo Zegna collections within 416 square meters of luxury retail space.



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Céline's new store at SoHo, New York

Built with luxe natural materials, the interior will feature a collaboration with the Danish artist FOS, who has created unique flower pots, sunglasses and jewelry display cases, and custom lighting.


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Time to revive this thread again......

The Row - New York:

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The Row’s Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen Are About to Open Their Most Beautiful Store Yet
by MARK HOLGATE


François Halard was busy shooting the still-in-flux interiors for the images you see here; and, at the center of it all, projecting an aura of 100 percent calm and concentration, though also reverberating with a barely sublimated nervous anticipation, were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Everyone needed their opinion. What height, the contractor and art installation team wanted to know, should the Man Ray be hung at? Did they, Halard was asking, want this area of the store to be shot with or without an orchid? (Both, was the answer, so they could choose later.)

Getting the details right is pretty much a full-time occupation for the Olsen sisters, and practice has made them near perfect at it. You know that from seeing their collections for The Row. You realize it when you visit their store in Los Angeles, which unfolds at ground level in a personal, quiet way, where one minute you can’t tear your eyes away from some gorgeous gazillion-ply cashmere robe, only to have some exquisite mid-century chair begging for your attention the next. (Honestly, when I first visited it, I wanted to take the entire contents of my home and burn them. Then move in there. And not ever leave.)

The Olsens would have opened in New York first, but having found this space a few years back, it wasn’t immediately available, so, while they waited, they set up shop in L.A. Now here they are, poised to finally have a place of their own in Manhattan. They took some time out from answering questions about the store from their team to answer questions about the store from me. This was after a tour of all three buttery/sandy/pale-toned floors, which they decorated with the help of Jacques Grange, who last worked on a boutique with Monsieur Saint Laurent. In addition to those Basquiats, there are incredible pieces of furniture: a Carlo Bugatti chair, a Frank Lloyd Wright mirror, a Jean Royère standing lamp, not to mention the ceramics created by legendary Japanese chef Masa Takayama . . . Listed like that, it sounds impressive, which it undoubtedly is. Yet it’s an environment that also feels warm and welcoming, not a stuffy, ostentatious, look-don’t-touch showplace. “Intimate” is the best way to put it, so that’s where we started . .

What kind of environment did you want to create here?

ASHLEY OLSEN: In Los Angeles, it’s all about mid-century homes and growing up, it was glass and water and trees. Having lived in New York now for 12 years, we wanted the store to very much feel like a home—that’s sort of the dream of here: a brownstone in New York. There’s a fantasy to that, and I think bringing that fantasy to reality in a way that everyone can enjoy is a really nice thing.

Yves Saint Laurent. Was he the first person you thought of when you decided you wanted to do this?
BOTH: Yes.

MKO: We did a lot of research, and I know a few friends who work with him. . . . I think that the idea of doing a public space was really exciting [to him], especially when we wanted to have not only clothing, but also art and furniture. The way he curates a space, that’s really his strength.

Did you have a very clear idea of what you wanted it to look like when you started?
AO: Yes and no. We knew the feeling that we wanted, and we knew what we loved of Jacques’s signature pieces, whether it’s the wall finishing or the floors or the upholstery. But I think as soon as we went to the people in Paris where we started picking out the fabrics, it totally opened my mind to the idea of using color in another way.

MKO: I’m used to buying old couches and not having them made, so that alone was a new way to think about color, space, function, and size differently. It’s interesting: You would think it’s easy, but it’s actually a real art!

Yes, and the emotional experience of when you see things together, too. Speaking of which, what about the art?
AO: We knew we wanted art, and there are a few private collections where people have been nice enough or able to participate. We’re excited. I think, again, it’s bringing a little bit of everything together.

MKO: A little bit of special things in New York together.

AO: And to be able to inspire and to show people things they haven’t been able to see or get close to. To dream.

I think everyone is engaged in the question of what a store should look and feel like now. I think physical spaces are still hugely important to understand a designer’s point of view and just the sheer pleasure of walking around and experiencing, distinct from how you interact with a designer online.
MKO: I’ve never purchased anything online.

Really? Wow, that’s amazing.
AO: I would agree. I prefer to see, touch, feel, and experience.

What do you think was the learning curve to opening the first store in Los Angeles? What were you told about L.A. that you thought, We should remember this for New York? I know they’re very different spaces and cities.
AO: I think one thing we’ve had to keep reminding ourselves is that remember the day before we opened, we didn’t think we were ready to open.

MKO: A week before, it was a construction site and it’s really very stressful. It’ll be very interesting to see how women shop in New York versus in Los Angeles. Los Angeles is on the more casual side . . .

Also from a design point of view, how that will make you think about your collections going forward . . .
MKO: That’s for sure. Being able to think about exclusive products for here or there. And testing product . . .

AO: It’s also the first time we’re launching shoes, so that will be interesting . . .

MKO: We’ll just have to wait and see! Shopping can be a little uninspiring now, so I think if we can bring a little bit of that experience wherever we are to stay, that’s great. That was our ultimate goal when we started—to bring an experience to life, and we’re making it happen. Everything looks the same now, and we wanted this to be special.

Vogue
 
Balenciaga under Demna Gvasalia - Paris (Ave Montaigne:(

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