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Ikea bets on remote interior design as AI changes sales strategy

Inside Retail

Ikea is training call centre workers to become interior design advisers as the Swedish furniture giant aims to offer more home improvement services and hand run-of-the-mill customer queries to an artificial intelligence bot called Billie. In the UK, customers pay $31.44 billion of revenue in Ingka’s 2022 financial year – 3.3

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Bluehaus designs ergonomic and inviting interiors for Credit Suisse’s new Riyadh office

Design Middleeast

Our collaborative projects across the UAE, Bahrain, and now Saudi Arabia reflect our commitment to design that resonates with the ethos of our clients,” explains Adil Amin, head of interior design at Bluehaus. Almost all Credit Suisse employees work at desks, often for long periods.

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

Dezeen

British architecture studio Al-Jawad Pike has used colourful marble for the interiors of trainer brand Athletic Propulsion Labs’ second flagship store in Soho, New York City. The textured display plinths were developed with a bespoke fabricator based in New York, who CNC-carved the forms. The photography is by Ståle Eriksen.

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A Disruptive Design For A New-Age Tea Drinkers’ Haunt

Retail Focus

The brand’s core values are translated into the interior space in terms of authenticity, innovation, and an on-trend quirkiness. Surrounded by verdant greens adjacent to two façades, the 15-seater teahouse provides ample floor height inside, countering the small footprint and lending the interiors a grandness in volume.

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Transforming Workspaces: Exploring the Power of Commercial Office Interior Design

Greater Group

Today’s commercial office interior design has changed the definition of a “workplace”. Current thinking in commercial office interior design sets an office up according to the way people think and feel, and work with one another. By that reasoning, desk jobs were necessarily done in a room with rows of desks.

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Hollister Co. Announces New London Soho Store

Retail Focus

This new location welcomes local London customers and tourists alike with a brightly coloured storefront and an inviting interior that brings the product assortment to life against a backdrop of cool blue and white tones with warm wood fixtures and textured walls.

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A Taste of Uniqueness: Unveiling the Distinctive Realm of Commercial Restaurant Interior Design

Greater Group

Commercial restaurant interior design presents a host of different challenges from commercial interiors in general. These considerations must all be addressed in every aspect of a commercial restaurant interior design, from the concept and branding, to layout and operations, all the way up to the entire customer experience.