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Red staircase anchors Diesel store in Miami Design District

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The store's focal point is a red lacquered-metal spiral staircase The helical lacquered-metal form has solid balustrades and steps with a diamond-plate texture for added grip. It leads up to a second level where another red wall with floating shelves is used for product displays.

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

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Five vanity rooms are each clad in distinctive coloured onyx or marble A teardrop-shaped column is located in the centre of the store, while boulder-like plinths positioned around the space are used for product displays. The textured display plinths were developed with a bespoke fabricator based in New York, who CNC-carved the forms.

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Theory opens layered flagship store on Regent Street

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Blackened bronze, lucite and smooth stone form the bespoke family of fixtures and demonstrate a delicate balance between lightweight and solidity. Soft curves forming several circular areas with the underlying principle of bringing shoppers into the centre to fully immerse themselves in the experience.

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Choosing the Best Materials for Visual Merchandising Concepts in Luxury Retail Stores

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Dutch contemporary artist Levi van Veluw , the creator of inaugural window display art for Hermès’ at Nordiska Kompaniet, said, “the window becomes an experience.” Retail experts agree that visual merchandising is more than creating window displays to attract customers. Metal in Retail Displays .

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UNStudio unveils Huawei flagship store in Shanghai with "petal-like" facade

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Dutch firm UNStudio has revealed a two-storey flagship store for Chinese technology company Huawei in Shanghai with a facade clad in ivory-coloured petal-like forms. The column was positioned to the side of the central atrium as a focal point for visitors and is wrapped by stairs that lead to the upper mezzanine floor.

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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. The event space is revealed as customers progress further into the store, in the form of a rustic timber cabin with a pitched roof and wood-frame sliding doors.

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Liang Architecture Studio creates retrofuturistic boutique in Hangzhou

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For the Audrey boutique, this is translated into symmetrical brutalist forms made from micro cement and steel that the designers said create a "church-like" feeling and "a sense of ritual". The micro-cement structures form the walls, ceilings and displays, pairing graceful curves with sharp geometric elements.

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