Barber Design

DECEMBER 2, 2019

It made us think about the crossover between space, sculpture and art as a way to create immersive experiences in retail, turning stores into memorable destinations. The Art of Retail Experience. We’ve noticed a lot of artistic influences – both from artists and recent exhibitions – permeating retail design this year.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 3, 2022

Teleport, the brainchild of founder and CEO, Edward Eremyan, made quite a splash in Hong Kong last year, as its immersive exhibition showcased a multi-sensory journey into an artistic sphere of digital experiences. Investors had to be convinced that their ‘experience concept’ could be viewed as a business model. An idea was born.

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Dezeen

MAY 18, 2024

Designed with a residential feel, the Quarters venue includes a wine bar for hosting events "A marriage of warmth and grandeur, whimsy and irreverence, Quarters is both a concept store and community gathering space," said the duo.

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

With captivating custom designs, lounges and bars, art installations and the introduction of their highly successful Bucherer BLUE and Bucherer Fine Jewellery collections to the US market. The cohesive look lays the groundwork for this hybrid store concept where Swiss hospitality and thoughtful brand presentations are key.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 23, 2023

One avenue that has gained significant traction is the concept of pop-up stores. These ephemeral retail spaces offer a unique platform for luxury brands to captivate their audience and deliver a heightened sense of luxury through carefully curated themes, aesthetics, products, events, and communications.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The space also doubles as an interior store, selling beautiful curated, individual, and unique decorative objet d’art, antiques and gifts including soft furnishings, paintings, lamps, books, ceramics, and glass. Founder and Owner, Libby Blakey added: “This location feels like our second home and essentially our London flagship.

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Retail Focus

JULY 20, 2023

As luxury brands invest in various areas, they aim to create immersive and unforgettable experiences for their customers with a focus on aesthetics, arts, technology, food and services, collaborations, exhibitions and museums, these brands are taking the concept of luxury pop-up shops to the next level.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Lifestyle retailer Showfields (New York) is opening a concept store, House of Showfields, this week in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. We feature a curation of mission driven products, art, and events that can be found ‘IRL’ [In Real Life] for the first time. Photography: Courtesy of Showfields.

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Design Middleeast

MAY 13, 2024

Hero-ing the Brand’s Artistic and Counter-Culture Roots: Incorporating elements that celebrate the brand’s counter-cultural roots is key to developing a sense of community. Pitfire Pizza is known to collaborate with local artists to adorn their pizza boxes. TwentyOne06 with Pitfire Pizza 3.

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Design Middleeast

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Natuzzi Italia, the global leader in luxury furniture, proudly showcased its commitment to art, design, and philanthropy by hosting the highly-anticipated “RE-THINKING RE-VIVE” event on 8 February 2024 at its flagship store on Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai. ” She said.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 25, 2022

The innovative concept named ‘HN NFT Vault’, invites customers to browse and purchase digital art NFTs from a curated selection of globally recognised projects. While digital art has been the biggest focus in NFTs, the music industry is going through significant change also. Creative industries adapt.

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VMS

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

pastaRAMEN is part of Montclair Hospitality Group, a chef-driven, global hospitality company focused on curating unique restaurant brands and experiences. As an incubator of chef-driven concepts, pastaRAMEN Montclair is the first of many new openings and chef partnerships that MHG has planned this year.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2021

It follows a move last year to reopen its ION Orchard, Plaza Singapura and Orchard Central stores as Uniqlo Towns , a retail destination concept that offers shoppers varied experiences, from sustainability to local arts and culture. Inside Retail: What has 2021 looked like for Uniqlo Singapore?

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Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2022

The 31,000 square feet Tsutaya Books in Pavilion Bukit Jalil features floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and over 240,000 specially curated books, stationery and decorative goods. One interesting facet of the store is that its entire collection of books are not segregated by language but curated by lifestyle interests. More than just a shop.

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Design Week

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

A landscape artist? The answer is yes,” according to Barbican curator Florence Ostende. Ostende has curated the Barbican’s upcoming exhibition on Japanese-American designer and artist Isamu Noguchi. “He was always concerned with context when it came to art,” she explains. A sculptor?

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Retail Focus

JUNE 16, 2023

With the customers’ increased demand for novelty and uniqueness, brands could be inclined to present concepts that meet their needs. The brand often collaborates with artists and designers. Jacquemus has collaborated with various artists and designers to create popup store experiences that blend fashion with art.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 1, 2022

When Chinese collectables retailer Pop Mart launched a pop-up store at London Westfield in January of last year to test its concept in the UK, it expected the Asian diaspora to be its largest potential market demographic. After the pop-up store, Pop Mart participated in art and design conventions MCM London and DesignerCon UK.

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Dezeen

APRIL 12, 2024

All Vitra showrooms reflect an agile and flexible platform to showcase our office and home concepts, including both Vitra and Artek," said the brand. "We The Herzog & de Meuron-designed VitraHaus is its flagship store The target audience for Vitra's showrooms are B2B professionals, dealers, artists and designers.

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Rose

MARCH 24, 2020

The Art & Science of Visual Merchandising & Customer Experience. It may sound like a cliché to say that visual merchandising is both an art and a science, but it’s true. Retail merchandising is an art and science,” according to enterprise business website SmartSheet.com. Curated Displays. Aspirational Retailing.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We also often get requests from guests travelling to Europe to have experiences with expert art curators and academics accompanying them to cultural sites, like museums or archeological sites, to give them keen insights into the locations that they visit. How do you incorporate this concept into your luxury travel experiences?

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Design Middleeast

MARCH 20, 2024

The Bauhaus Founded in 1919 by architect Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, the Bauhaus sought to unite the creative efforts of art, design, and industry until they became, as Gropius described it, “inseparable components of a new architecture”. These collections continue to be Knoll bestsellers today. The Bauhaus.

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Design Week

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

But as art and design teacher and ArtCenter College of Design president Lorne M. In Make to Know, Buchman uses direct interviews with artists and designers to make the point. A new book from interior designer India Mahdavi, curator and educator Stella Paul and Phaidon discusses this in intricate detail.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 4, 2021

Browns Brook Street, located at 39 Brook Street in the heart of London’s Mayfair, is an enchanting destination designed to immerse you in a curated world of fashion, fine jewellery, food and culture. We were influenced by the artists Donald Judd, Carl Andre and Fausto Melotti. What we do is instinctively Browns.

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Design Middleeast

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

An architectural statement designed by Foster + Partners, the hotel represents the ultimate expression of trusted hospitality and elevated living, offering 225 rooms and suites and eight new dining concepts; including four that have been created with three of the world’s most celebrated chefs.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Platform, Los Angeles: Where culture, community and creativity meet Located in a trendy neighbourhood of Culver City, California, Platform is a curated showcase of local indie brands, pop-ups, sleek bars and Michelin-star restaurants. This carefully curated mixed-use experience effortlessly encourages dwell time, visitation and patronage.

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VMS

JANUARY 2, 2023

The ‘Champions of Success’ panel discussion served as the keynote social event at the Chicago Escape Brand Closet Showroom Social where fashion, art, and retail industry executives and thought leaders, as well as emerging designers and artists, explored issues pertaining to the survival and transformation of Chicago’s fashion industry.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The retail industry might just owe a debt of gratitude to Australia Post’s new Community Hub concept – and not just because it has installed change rooms. The team behind this concept — led by Landini Associates — was given the opportunity to throw out the rules of retail and take a clean-sheet look at how to use floorspace.

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VMS

MAY 13, 2021

Utilizing one of Easton Town Center’s vacant parking lots, a drive-in movie theatre concept was set in motion. In less than two weeks, Steiner + Associates, in partnership with vendors, created a marketing plan, designed the space layout, installed electricity and sourced equipment and signage to bring the drive-in theatre concept to life.

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VMS

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As a “Synchronicity Architect” and Founder/CEO of META, he runs an immersive experience studio that specializes in “The Art of Being There.” The “Synchronicity Architect” is founder and CEO of META , an immersive experience studio that specializes in “The Art of Being There.”

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Design Week

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Billed as an “artistic representation of daylight and fresh air”, The Cube by Velux will be positioned at Observation Point along London’s South Bank. Those announced so far include graphic designer and LogoArchive founder Richard Baird, graphic designer and art director Émilie Chen and 3D modeller Ethan Francis.

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Onyx

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

0_prologue_ In the Introduction to The Wexner Center for the Art's 2001 show, 'Perfect Acts of Architecture' curator, Jeff Kipnis, argued that the show's architectural drawings were not 'perfect' in some idealized manner. Less still, it seems, would anyone believe that it could become a field of artistic operation.

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Design Wanted

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The second edition of ‘T-Style: Thai Spirit’ showcases a collection of post-pandemic solutions curated by the Department of International Trade Promotion (DITP). A curated collection of 43 of the best local Thai brands went on show at the prestigious furniture fair, which took place in Paris from 9-13 September. T-Style: Thai Spirit.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The concept of pop-up stores has a rich and diverse history, stemming from various cultural and commercial phenomena spanning centuries. From avant-garde installations to collaborative showcases with renowned artists or designers, pop-ups empower luxury brands to express their distinctiveness in captivating and unconventional ways.

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Design Wanted

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The LIT Awards were initiated by the Farmani Group and most recently joined the 3C Group, a leading organization curating and promoting design across the globe, which has been commemorating smart, multidisciplinary and sustainable design since 2007. Radius by Russian studio Atris Lighting Atelier won the Pendant Lighting category.

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Design Wanted

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The designs will venture into a range of areas on various scales–from the microworld of a bedroom studio to the collective sphere of the neighborhood–embracing an anthropological concept of design with the power to conceive new visions of cohabitation and joint construction, underpinned by the principles of sustainability.

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Design Wanted

JULY 14, 2021

The designs will venture into a range of areas on various scales – from the microworld of a bedroom studio to the collective sphere of the neighbourhood – embracing an anthropological concept of design with the power to conceive new visions of cohabitation and joint construction, underpinned by the principles of sustainability. The challenge?

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

To me, the parallel to art was immediate. It was like going to see a Picasso exhibition, yet no one tells you that the painter is Picasso and only the gallery or curator name is provided. There’s a lot of back and forth and once the concept is clearer, he starts working on the formula. He comes to me with his vision and a name.

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