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Plantea Estudio designs intentionally unfinished Veja store "to look like we didn't do anything"

Dezeen

The floor was coated uniformly with cement mortar, creating a continuous surface throughout the interior while providing a contrast with the chunky cobblestones laid in the entrance hall. The main collection is displayed on these steel shelves, illuminated by a light that's brighter than the general light in the store," the studio said.

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Linehouse designs space-themed cafe in Shanghai for creator of "Australia's most Instagrammed dessert"

Dezeen

The shelving extends across the ceiling to form an arched form that the studio described as "an exploration of gravity vs weightlessness". Blackened wood covers the floor of the room in contrast to the exposed concrete of the cafe's other spaces. Linehouse designed the store to evoke a spaceship.

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Norm Architects fashions industrial yet warm interiors for Notabene flagship in Copenhagen

Dezeen

When it came to devising a fit-out for the Notabene store in Copenhagen's Old Town, Norm Architects worked on fostering "contrast and beauty" between the site's existing industrial features and the warm, tactile material palette that the studio felt was representative of the footwear brand. The store's main room has exposed concrete walls.

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Visionnaire blurs the lines between art and design

Design Wanted

Form follows function ” goes the old saying, a design directive prioritising an object’s use before any unnecessary decoration. The collection can be experienced at its showroom in Milan’s Piazza Cavour, a former cinema which the brand renovated as its flagship in 2008. Who said furniture isn’t art?

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David Taylor upcycles scrap materials into “rough-luxe” furniture

Design Wanted

Discord the craft of French designer Paul Coenen using the flexibility of sheet metal to form rigid structures in his ‘Tension’ series. “I A pivotal moment for me came in 2008 during the global financial crisis when Taylor was working mainly as a silversmith at that time and almost overnight my customers just stopped coming by.

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Proudly made in China: How Chinese consumers are reclaiming domestic brands

Inside Retail

Once popular in the 90s through to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the brand was quickly cannibalised by Nike and Adidas, and eclipsed by other local competitors. In contrast, Victoria’s Secret has been on the decline since the time it debuted in China after the backlash grew from its Shanghai Fashion Show in 2017.

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