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AUGUST 24, 2021

From shops that display books on tree trunk columns to stores that reflect books all over the walls, we've rounded up ten bookshops in China that exhibit books in non-traditional ways. Mirrored ceilings and zigzag staircases create the disorientating interior of this bookstore in southwest China designed by Shanghai-based studio X+Living.

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MAY 5, 2022

A pink furry fashion boutique, a cosmetics store styled like a 1970s office and a streetwear outlet adorned with a chandelier of Nike trainers feature in this roundup of weird and wonderful retail interiors. Harmay Hangzhou, China, by AIM Architecture. Architecture. Architecture, which created the space.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

Coarse plaster walls offset glinting stainless-steel display fixtures in this restrained store that architecture studio Case-Real has designed for Aesop in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Case-Real used just two materials to create the store's simple interior. Case-Real used just two materials to create the store's simple interior.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Shanghai studio AIM Architecture has inserted a red staircase that resembles a children's slide in the middle of this clothing store to create a playful interior. AIM Architecture wanted to create a playful interior for the fashion brand. AIM Architecture wanted to create a playful interior for the fashion brand.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Design studio Yatofu has completed a furniture showroom in Hangzhou , China, featuring a playful pastel colour palette and a display area housed on a steel- mesh platform. The delicate colour scheme also contrasts with the raw concrete ceiling, where exposed ducting and lighting tracks add to the industrial feel.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Above: the store was renovated with a "raw architecture" concept. It introduces a new concept we are calling Raw Architecture," a Balenciaga spokesperson told Dezeen. "It The interior of the store was clad in distressed and patinated concrete. Digital screens, LED lights and aluminium displays contrast with the distressed look.

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

Fashion brand Balenciaga has opened its first retail location in Berlin , which continues the brand's Raw Architecture aesthetic and boasts monolithic concrete slabs and distressed surfaces. Balenciaga decorated the store with a concept it describes as Raw Architecture. Aged concrete panels reference the modernist history of Berlin.

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Retail Focus

JULY 30, 2021

Celebrating Bally’s 170-year heritage, Bally Haus honours the brand’s Swiss pillars of art, architecture and craftsmanship through contemporary design and natural materials. A focus on materials creates an open, flexible space with visual contrasts, a central Bally Haus feature.

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JANUARY 25, 2022

Shanghai studio AIM Architecture has transformed the second floor of a business park in Hangzhou, China, into a store that resembles a 1970s office for cosmetics brand Harmay. AIM Architecture wanted the Hangzhou cosmetics store to look like an office. AIM Architecture wanted the Hangzhou cosmetics store to look like an office.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 21, 2023

The duality of the historic architecture of Soho, New York with the cutting-edge modern design inspired by this very architecture, creates an entirely new impression and reflects the very soul of Âme,” said Alon Baranowitz and Irene Kronenberg, co-founders of Baranowitz + Kronenberg.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Los Angeles design studio Gharib Studio has contrasted concrete floors and exposed ceilings with soft- pink walls and clean lines for a jewellery store in Austin. On one side, the display resembles small bookcases and on the other, the bracelets are displayed throughout a series of arches.

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MARCH 25, 2024

Apparatus redesigned the interiors – which previously consisted of bold geometric and neoclassical elements – opting for an experience featuring a progression of materials that create distinct experiences for each room. This surface treatment has a reflective quality meant to contrast the first space.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

Used books are displayed in supermarket-style crates at the Deja Vu Recycle Store in Shanghai , which local studio Offhand Practice has designed to counter the "shabby" image associated with second-hand shops. Second-hand books are displayed in supermarket-style crates. The Deja Vu Recycle Store is located in Shanghai's Anfu Road.

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MARCH 10, 2024

Los Angeles studio 22RE has used pale-green stucco informed by Miami 's colours and golf courses for the interiors of a golf clothing boutique in the city. From the centre of the space, mid-grey handmade Mexican tiles are laid across the floor in a radial pattern, emanating from a circular plaque that displays the brand's monogram.

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JUNE 23, 2021

Chinese studio FOG Architecture has added curved walls, mirrored surfaces and faux stone to the interiors of aromatherapy brand ToSummer's flagship store in Beijing. Located in Beijing's Taikoo Li Sanlitun shopping village, FOG Architecture designed the 170-square-metre ToSummer store to recall the atmosphere of a cave.

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JULY 26, 2023

Raw finishes and brutalist interventions feature in footwear brand Veja 's first dedicated shop in Madrid , complete with an in-house shoe repair workshop and interiors designed by local firm Plantea Estudio. That kind of brick structure brings you to the origins of architecture, to a temporal language," the studio said. "It

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APRIL 2, 2023

Decorative architectural mouldings are recreated in pastel green to frame openings at the Boston store for the cosmetics brand Glossier. Our influences for Glossier Boston's design include collegiate fashion and the decorative characteristics of Boston's local architecture."

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Dezeen

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Curved resin walls define this retail space , which architecture studio Akin Atelier has created for the Sydney Modern extension at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The Gallery Shop comprises two resin walls that curve around its displays, with a gap between the two of them forming the entry point.

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MARCH 11, 2023

Benches balanced on irregularly shaped rocks also act as product displays in the store "Spatial design of the SVRN store began with our interpretation of the SVRN's brand identity and narrative through the eastern perspective," said WGNB. The photography is by Yongjoon Choi.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

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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JULY 24, 2023

Architecture studio Snøhetta has completed a shop for fashion and lifestyle brand Holzweiler in Chengdu , China, informed by its Norwegian heritage. A glass wall framed with wavy lines divides the LED screen into two parts, revealing the store's warm clay-toned interiors to visitors.

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Dezeen

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Wooden shelves and stone plinths are used to display books in the New Mags store. "As The only thing we had to work with from the existing architecture, was therefore the light golden sandstone used on the facade of the building and the somewhat irregular and fixed layout of the loadbearing concrete walls," he added.

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JUNE 30, 2023

Hong Kong-based architect and interior designer André Fu has completed the first global flagship store for electronic accessory brand Casetify in Osaka , combining traditional Japanese shoji paper lanterns with bright colours. The world of shoji lanterns that goes around you, that folds and unfolds, creates that effect," he added. "It

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APRIL 30, 2023

Harnessing soft colours and gentle curves, interior design studio Vives St-Laurent has completed a shop for children's boutique Billie Le Kid in Mont-Tremblant – a Canadian ski resort known for its colourful architecture. The railing system allows for precise positioning to highlight different items within the display cabinets.

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JULY 4, 2021

Design studio Halleroed has used travertine podiums to display sneakers like sculptures in the Paris store of streetwear label Axel Arigato. Axel Arigato's Paris store is dotted with travertine display plinths. We do the opposite by displaying our product on podiums in the centre of the room instead, like a piece of sculpture.".

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JANUARY 14, 2024

PSLab has opened a new workshop and showroom in Berlin PSLab , which designs and manufactures light fixtures for architectural projects, set out to create a showroom where customers can experience lighting effects in a home-like environment. Moving the door aside reveals a full-height opening that welcomes visitors into the studio.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

ges ' artistic director Nicolas Di Felice asked Dubois to create an interior that blends this distinctive visual language with subtle references to nightclubs. Its interior is lined in fabric and thick carpet. Other references to the brand's history include shelves and cabinets that were part of a store interior designed by Courre?ges

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Crushed shells were used to form the bio-brick partitions at this store for a decor brand in Aqaba, Jordan , by architecture studio FADAA. To protect the interior from the harsh south sun, the studio implemented partitions of stacked hollow rectangular bricks based on the traditional mashrabiya screens found in Islamic architecture.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Architecture practice Snøhetta stuck to natural materials for the fit-out of the Holzweiler boutique in Copenhagen , incorporating subtle references to the fashion brand's Norwegian heritage. Its undulating outer walls are fitted with display shelves and coated in a smooth layer of clay , while the inside has a rough, craggy surface.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

"Inspired by spatial design and the idea of self-reflection, features in a myriad of textures including chrome and mirror dominate the interior walls and reflect tonal surfaces in mint green," Self-Portrait said of the interior. "By Tonal surfaces were added to the interior of the store.

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Retail Design Institute

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

They called on Burdifilek to handle interior design of the multi-story location. Each floor speaks its own design language through architecture, custom fixturing, furnishings, surfacing materials and display elements, all tailored to the merchandise and lifestyle trends of its intended customer. Design: Burdifilek, Toronto.

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JUNE 16, 2021

Design and architecture agency Studiopepe references Milan's offices and metro stations in its revamp of the fourth floor of the city's renowned luxury department store La Rinascente. The steel tubes – which are used to clad display columns and create table legs – are a direct reference to the city's underground stations.

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JULY 26, 2021

It's a flexible piece of built architecture that is a device to challenge traditions.". Black terrazzo floors are contrasted against Sottsass veneer display cases. Blue metallic clothes rails are dotted throughout the interior. Travertine stone is contrasted again bright colours and shiny metal displays.

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JULY 23, 2022

The Milan office of David Chipperfield Architects has designed a minimalist boutique for fashion brand Akris in Washington DC , featuring pleated walls and displays suspended from thin wires. Read: David Chipperfield designs metallic interiors for Ssense's Montreal boutique. Lighting is hidden with the shelving displays.

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JULY 18, 2022

New York interior designer Sarita Posada has layered "lived-in" details and rich textures inside the first London store from fashion and lifestyle label Aimé Leon Dore. Rather than riffing on the design of Aimé Leon Dore 's first-ever store in New York, the London flagship was designed to provide a contrasting experience. "We

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FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Located at 22 Bruton Street, the boutique is laid out across 190-square-metres and displays Maison Margiela's Co-Ed collections , with men's and women's ready-to-wear alongside accessories such as shoes, jewellery and eyewear. The walls and columns are turned inside out – we look at the lining, the interior of the wall.".

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

There is ample room for displaying products in a distinctive way, while a VIP room gives notable customers a futuristic space where they can shop in privacy. m deep display space that draws passers-by in. A display space runs along the façade. The VIP room is located behind the display space along the façade.

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