Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The huge increase in online shopping over the past decade or so has had a major impact on department stores, with many consumers turning to Amazon, eBay and other online shops for shopping, rather than a more traditional trip out to a physical store. Pictured, botanical artist Carly Rogers at Selfridges, London, UK.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The store also features collaborations with talented Australian artists, with ground-level installations by paper engineer Benja Harney and artist Bianca Beers, and abstract sculptures and paintings by Elliott Routledge. Kris Andrew Small’s artwork, which includes a mural in the changing room, also adds to the store’s ambiance.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For aspiring sportspeople, Wilson products existed on a par with everything else in department stores and retailers like Dick’s Sporting Goods. Under spotlights in a four-story atrium is an interior courtyard or “Urban Playground,” offering a basketball half-court and tennis practice wall for moments of play. But no longer.

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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. Tactile Baltics is being put on in collaboration with Adorno, a curated online gallery for contemporary collectible design. Installation: The Cube by Velux.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Major department store, tick. 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. Global fast-fashion retailer, tick. Supermarket giant, tick.

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Dezeen

JUNE 27, 2023

London-based studio EBBA Architects has channelled the environmental ethos of fashion rental platform Rotaro for its pop-up boutique at department store Liberty. EBBA was influenced by the work of artists Donald Judd and Carl Andre and their elevation of humble materials through detailing and construction.

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VMS

APRIL 7, 2021

How do you see the role of physical stores changing in the future? The past 10 years have been hard on the retail industry, especially on department stores. Stores will be the brand message and showroom for online businesses. Age: 28 | Associate Interior Designer, Gensler. Courtesy of Bloomingdale’s, NY.

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