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ICA Stop supermarket designed as a “culinary dream come true”

February 26, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Swedish studio Westblom Krasse Arkitektkontor and design agency Snask have revamped a supermarket in Täby, adding pastel hues and materials such as terrazzo and wood to “turn shopping into an experience”. The design was intended as a facelift for the store, which is part of Sweden’s ICA supermarket chain and had been given many smaller

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Chai Guys Portobello cafe interior evokes “the colour of spices”

February 26, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Local studio SODA has used warm colours and natural materials to create the first store for tea brand Chai Guys on Portobello Road in London’s Notting Hill neighbourhood. The studio drew on the “informal nature” of drinking masala chai tea when designing the interior for the cafe – the first one for the Chai Guys

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Kith Women Flagship in Soho combines walnut and pink marble

February 17, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

American fashion brand Kith has returned to the location of its first Manhattan flagship to open a women-dedicated store, in which olive trees grow up through display podiums. The inaugural Kith Women Flagship in Soho opened last December at 644 Broadway, the same historic landmark building where the brand debuted its Manhattan retail offering in

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Italian modernist architecture informs Bottega Veneta store in historic Milan galleria

February 7, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Fashion house Bottega Veneta has opened a boutique designed by its creative director Matthieu Blazy inside the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II shopping arcade in Milan. Bottega Veneta’s two-storey store is distinguished by three primary materials: glass, Italian walnut and green Verde Saint Denis marble. This trifecta is applied in strict grids to evoke Italian modernism

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Standard Architecture refreshes interiors of pink Paul Smith store in LA

February 3, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

British fashion label Paul Smith’s iconic pink store in Los Angeles has received an interior makeover from Standard Architecture. Standard Architecture collaborated with the Paul Smith design team to reimagine the 4,740-square-foot (440 square metres) store on Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood. The studios also created a new VIP entrance patio for the building, which is

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Yatofu fosters “relaxed holiday atmosphere” in Jianze showroom

February 2, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Design studio Yatofu has completed a furniture showroom in Hangzhou, China, featuring a playful pastel colour palette and a display area housed on a steel-mesh platform. The 80-square-metre retail space belongs to Chinese design brand Jianze and forms part of an emerging cultural district in the city’s Liangzhe New Town. Yatofu set out to create

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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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