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

Dezeen

Design studio Linehouse combined stainless steel and meteorites to create a space -themed cafe in central Shanghai as Australian chain Black Star Pastry's first Chinese outpost. Shanghai-based Linehouse designed the space to evoke the feeling of being in space. A terrazzo staircase leads guests upstairs to a dining space.

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How 99 Bikes plans to return to profit with an electric-powered push

Inside Retail

A year later, Turner founded the Pedal Group, as a joint venture between the Turner family and Flight Centre in 2008. Pedal Group owns two separate businesses in the bicycle industry, 99 Bikes, a direct-to-consumer (DTC) retail operation, and Advance Traders, a bicycle wholesale business that the group acquired in July 2008. “At

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

Dezeen

The retail space is housed in a building in the centre of Madrid, which has functioned as a shop, a restaurant and a bank office since its construction around the turn of the 20th century. 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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Elevate to resonate

Retail Focus

It predicts that in contrast to premium stores suffering after the 2008 global financial crash, the industry is now showing that global sales growth in luxury retail is looking very likely to hit 3% to 5% growth in 2023, possibly rising to 6% to 8%. This is being further underlined through many launching luxury services.

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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

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. It was] born as a room of wonders and a space for experimentation to fascinate and amaze guests. In this context, opportunities to learn and expand our knowledge can arise.”. Amos Dining Table.

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

Design Wanted

Silversmithing, designing, making sculptural objects, furniture or public space installations all boils down to the same thing,” he explains. 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.