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Al-Jawad Pike creates marble "immersive experience" for APL's Soho flagship in NYC

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The 3,900 square-foot space has been laid out in a curving amphitheatre design, with the interior designed to be "simple yet severe" while creating a "completely immersive experience," Al-Jawad Pike studio co-founder Jessam Al-Jawad told Dezeen. The photography is by Ståle Eriksen.

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BLUE Architecture Studio inserts rustic cabin into Hangzhou furniture store

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The interior was divided into an event space and a furniture display area, which in turn was sectioned off into three different sets of rooms using textured-stone partition walls. Partitions help to give the space a maze-like quality. "We A wooden cabin was inserted into the store to act as an events space.

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Trillions in revenue and a million jobs: Unpacking JD.com’s 20-year roadmap

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The business got its first big break in 2003, during the SARS outbreak, when Liu saw an opportunity to capitalise on the burgeoning e-commerce sector and began selling products online to customers who were eager to avoid public spaces. A year later, Liu closed his bricks-and-mortar store and moved the business fully online.

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Retail appointments of the week

Inside Retail

He also partnered and collaborated with artists and brands outside of the fashion space, from working with rapper Kanye West to designing album covers and furniture for Ikea. Abloh’s official Instagram said he had battled a rare, aggressive form of cancer known as cardiac angiosarcoma, and chose to keep his battle private.

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The big business of Barbie: how the 60-year-old brand is taking over retail

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The relationship between Barbie and fashion came full circle in 2014, when “Jeremy Scott for Moschino did a Barbie collection and sent his models down the runway in Barbie pink with huge blonde hair,” Brayshaw said. Barbie herself is the ultimate fashion model.” The brand partly attributed this to elevated retail inventory.

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Halleroed inserts sculptural travertine display plinths in Axel Arigato's Paris store

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A freestanding travertine wall divides the space into two. Travertine was also used to form a series of shelves in the rear of the store and custom chairs in the dressing room. Axel Arigato was launched in 2014 as an online store for luxury streetwear. The stone was hammered, honed or left raw. According to Sva?rdh,

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Are members-only supermarkets the future of grocery?

Inside Retail

In late 2014, grocery retailer FairPrice opened Warehouse Club (WHC), the first membership-only retail warehouse in Singapore for groceries and household consumables. In 2019, an altogether different concept hit the market in the US, in the form of Move. The rise in members-only supermarkets .

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