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Tag: Stores
These items have all been tagged with the tag "Stores", You can see other tags in the Tag Cloud| AESOP - Skin Care That Thinks Outside The Box |
| 2008-04-02 16:33:15 |
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Since being established by Dennis Pahitis twenty years ago, Aésop skin care has become an uncontested success story in the notoriously fickle beauty industry – focused on providing its worldwide clientele with the highest quality botanical skin care, rather than subscribing to mainstream-cosmetic anti-aging hype. Aésop now have 78 international stockists, plus 20 signature stores including stores in Paris, London, Sydney and their most recent Melbourne addition, Flinders Lane. In keeping with Aésop tradition – that every store is different; conceived and designed individually so as that each store is a reflection and celebration of its location – the Flinders Lane store does not disappoint, providing its customers with a design and infrastructure that is just as alternative as Aésop’s skin care products. Located in one of Melbourne’s most interesting precincts, the Flinders Lane store interior is made entirely of industrial-grade cardboard; from the display shelving, to the massive eastern façade, and even the counter tops– proving that cardboard can be both striking and structurally sturdy if it’s engineered well. Designed by local interior architects Rodney Eggleston and Anne-Laure Cavigneaux of March Studios, the ambient new store has drawn attention from all sorts of passers by. Store manager, Kate, says she wasn’t expecting how amazed customers would be by the store’s design. “It’s clear it’s a very tactile environment. Most people come in and tend to want to touch it all.” The Flinders Lane store is located at Shop 1C, 268 Flinders Lane, Melbourne. For a full list of Aésop products and stockists visit www.aesop.net.au. By Anna Byrne. |
| Alexandre Herchcovitch Store - Tokyo |
| 2008-03-25 17:20:27 |
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Alexandre Herchcovitch has come a long way since his humble beginnings of making his mother's party clothes. Having launched his first collection in 1994, things have only gotten bigger for the Brazilian-born designer. Trained at the Catholic institution Santa Marcelina College of Arts in Sao Paulo, his designs have been sent down the runways of New York, Paris and London. Best known for avant-garde designs and eclectic prints, his trademark skulls became an icon of Brazilian youth in the nineties. 2007 was a memorable year for Herchcovitch. It was a year of branching out, particularly with his redesign of the uniform for McDonald's employees in Brazil, and the opening of his first store abroad. In this daring project, Herchcovitch chose Tokyo where a good part of his collections are purchased and where he has become somewhat of a fashion guru. The 1,076sq ft store, which sits in the hip Daikanyama district carries his men's, women's and denim collections and is operated in partnership with Japanese fashion distributor and retailer H.P. France. Changing the way the world thinks about Brazilian fashion, coupled with his new Japanese store and concessions in New York, Herchcovitch is fast becoming a big and serious name in the fashion world. By Brendan McKnight |
| Fiat Flagship Store - London |
| 2008-03-19 16:22:11 |
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Fiat has opened its new London flagship showroom and it is well worth the visit even if you have no desire to purchase one of the swanky new 500's. The Marylebone store features a heavily chromed interior (look out for the exhaust pipe clad columns) and is fresh and modern without being intimidating or overbearing – think Austin Powers love den meets the science lab of the future. The space is split over two floors. The first floor is the showroom with a handful of vehicles, a whole lot of shag pile carpet and a gift shop to boot. Here you can purchase pretty much anything for the Fiat enthusiast from cufflinks to handbags to miniature models that open up to become USB sticks. Yep, Team Fiat has thought of everything. Downstairs is a more minimalist white multi function space designed for corporate meetings, fashion shows and art and design exhibitions. This space currently features the 'Fiat Workpop 500' exhibition where prototypes of Fiat accessories that have been designed by 22 young product designers are on display. The public can vote for its favorites, and in a Survivor like contest, the winner's product will go into mass production and eventually on general sale. Where will you be able to purchase these you may be asking? In the gift shop of course. By Brendan McKnight |
| New Bape Store - Shibuya, Japan |
| 2008-01-18 21:32:14 |
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Unworldly spaces with equally unworldly names, like the topsy-turvy boutique And A, Beams T or Foot Soldier, shops that feature little conveyor belts for the display of merchandise, or Nowhere *A Bathing Ape 'Busy Work Shop', a Tokyo boutique that stocks and displays garments in an oversized refrigerator that resembles the familiar unit in everybody's local supermarket - all recent additions to Japan's shopping streets - are the work of Masamichi Katayama, founder of Tokyo-based WonderWall. More than just attempts to be futuristic or extravagant, they are highly sophisticated retail outlets. Not to mention great fun! Katayama is the consummate consumer. With his shop designs for *A Bathing Ape, a charismatic apparel brand, Katayama has ventured beyond the streets of Japan to enrich shopping experience in London and New York. By Lisa Evans Random Archive Xploding Cars Geek Desk Casino Marketing Oto Kinoko |
| ROPE RACK |
| 2008-01-18 15:01:52 |
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Annoying as it is to admit but we did not invent this device. This hangover of a clothes rack, this marvel of a loss-prevention tool, this clothes line with an attitude, this hallway accessory that we all — at least in theory — could make at home. A couple of things worry us about this potential nightmare, though. With the Christmas season still in fresh memory, we all know how tangled up a string of anything can get. So this could really drive you mad. And when the cab’s waiting outside, how do you quickly grab your coat and run? By Tuija Seipell |
| Lighting Up Denim |
| 2007-12-19 15:29:48 |
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In the mid-nineteenth century, when Bavarian peddler Morris Levi Strauss and Latvian tailor Jacob Youphes (Davis) started to create tough work wear for California coal miners from “denim” cotton imported from the Provençal city of Nimes, they had no idea how far and wide denim’s popularity would reach. Most certainly they could not have imagined the veritable Versailles created late this fall solely for the purpose of displaying denim in the magical city of Istanbul. Located in a traditional Ottoman building, the denim showroom was designed by New Zealand architect Christopher Hall. The showroom’s best feature is the lighting created by Beirut, Lebanon-based, PSLAB. The firm of 40 designers, architects, craftsmen and engineers focuses on researching, designing and producing custom lighting for a demanding clientele in Europe and the Middle East. At the Istanbul denim showroom, PSLAB took its inspiration from the constraints of the old space and created an exciting environment that also works. Custom suspended fixtures, positioned on two parallel lines, were given long adjusting arms for directing the light where needed. The fixtures give ideal light and look cool yet they allow the original ornamental ceiling draw well-deserved attention. By Tuija Seipell |
| Magma Bookstore (London) | ||
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| Dennis Simachev - From Moscow With PlayStation |
| 2007-11-14 19:20:46 |
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The in-crowd in Moscow knows Denis Simachev. The only place to buy his Special edition PlayStation 3, his just-launched sunglass line, his special Ducati motorcycles, his snowboards or hand-made shoes is Simachev’s one and only store at 12 Stoleshnikov Pereulok. The recently unveiled flagship is a hybrid of a store, bar, restaurant and art space. In addition to rare special-edition items, it showcases Simachev’s true Russian, irreverent fashions, jewellery (both for men and women) and furs in an authentic-mixed-with–surrealism environment. The Englishman and New Zealander in the kitchen cook up everything from panini sandwiches to Kamchatkan crab, and absolutely nothing flows out of those golden faucets. The bar is well-stocked, though, and the prices reasonable. Simachev is a Muscovite born in 1974 and a graduate of the Kosygin textile academy. He is a veteran of Milan and London runways and his brand is sold around the world. But for that PlayStation, you need to head to Moscow now. By Tuija Seipell (spotted by cool hunter reader - Veronika Turkanova) |
| JC/DC Store - Paris |
| 2007-10-24 15:50:39 |
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Sensory overload is unavoidable in Paris, and after a while you become a bit numb. But like a sorbet that clears your palate between courses, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac’s (JC/DC) store at 10 Rue Vauvilliers will work as a visual palate-refresher. The store has an air of theatre without being theatrical, drama without being dramatic and history without being historical. A retro, semi-aggressive undertone, popped up by whimsy and surprise. Oh yes, they do sell fashion, too. The store’s flair and ingenuity are not accidental. Cooperation between super-talents such as JC/DC and Christian Ghion is likely to produce something remarkable. In his 40-plus years in the business of high-impact eye candy, the Casablanca, Morocco-born Marquis de Castelbajac has enjoyed enormous successes designing fashion, movies, cars, sportswear and interiors. Celebrities from Elton John to Pope John Paul II have worn his creations and added to his fame. The 49-year-old Christian Ghion is no less prolific or versatile. He is known as a designer of high-end furniture and accessories, exhibitions, and home, store and hotel interiors. His chicest furniture design is the 2002 Shadow chaise lounge for Cappellini. By Tuija Seipell |
| Illy Cafe in Push Button House (Lands in NY) |
| 2007-10-09 17:29:47 |
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For some time, designers, architects and builders all over the world have tinkered with the idea of turning excess standard shipping containers into living quarters. Some of the incarnations of the lowly metal box are downright chic, including artist-architect Adam Kalkin’s Quik House for which he apparently has more orders than he can handle. But these metal containers have also drawn the attention of some leading brands that have started to use the eye-popping ideas to full advantage. Holiday shoppers milling about the Time Warner Center in New York will have a fabulous chance to experience one of these soon. Between November 28 and December 29, 2007, they can rest, relax and sip a perfect cup of illy espresso in one of Kalkin’s creations, the temporary Push Button House cafe that the Trieste, Italy-based illycaffè will install there. The European premier of this concept by Alan Kalkin and illy took place at the 52nd Venice Biennale where illy continues to partner with the Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia by providing the visitors each year a space to relax and enjoy their complimentary espresso. This was illy’s fourth year of establishing the refreshment area at the Biennale but the Push Button House version created an unprecedented buzz. With the push of a button, the house opens in 90 seconds like a flower and transforms from a compact container into a fully furnished and functional space with a kitchen, dining room, bathroom, bedroom, living room and library. All materials used in the Biennale house were recyclable or recycled. As Andrea Illy, chairman and CEO of illycaffe, has been quoted as saying, illy was initially interested in Kalkin’s idea as an examination of “home as one continuous mouldable surface, a relief against which human activity would pop out.” Kalkin’s concepts have proven to be adaptable to many circumstances. His company has developed container-unit projects for everything from disaster-relief housing to luxury dwellings (pictured below), and for promotional purposes such as the illy cafe. By Tuija Seipell. |
