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Brand Creative’s Ixora retail project is a delicate balance of history, nature, and science

Design Middleeast

Keeping the experience seamless and premium meant rethinking the point of sale area so that all forms of technology and clutter were cleverly hidden within joinery designs. The lighting was not only efficient but also strategically placed with a suspended track system to reduce glare and lend a theatrical contrast to the merchandise.

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Gentle Monster opens HAUS SHANGHAI

Retail Focus

In addition, various forms of collaged media art and aesthetic furniture provide a distinct F&B experience. The Shanghai store, expressing elegance and individuality through the delicate balance of spatial elements, captures Tamburins’ artistic vision. Dessert of your dreams.”.

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WGNB creates minimal monochrome SVRN store in Chicago

Dezeen

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.

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Reflecting pool centres XC273 fashion boutique in former Shanghai towel factory

Dezeen

Dongqi Design strived to preserve and emphasise these different layers of history, which are contrasted against shiny new finishes to create a kind of "nostalgic futurism". The building is organised around three voids, which now form the basis of the store's circulation routes. Dongqi Design gave the second floor a bright white finish.

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DixonBaxi’s branding for Canada Water aims to make it London’s “new town centre”

Design Week

” “Balancing human feeling with more structured forms” The link between the natural landscape and the built environment is further alluded to in the Canada Water wordmark, which features a “discreet upward line” linking the A and W. Elsewhere, Karelia has been chosen as the primary typeface for the brand.

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Hedi Slimane uses "French elegance" to define Celine store in London

Dezeen

Celine creative director Hedi Slimane has opened a flagship store in London for the French fashion house, which balances historic Edwardian features and a gallery-style aesthetic. These artworks gently break the store's rule of symmetry while adding natural and earthy hues, textures and forms against the largely grayscale interior.

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Formoral is a skincare store that resembles a "desert planet"

Dezeen

It was envisioned as a contrasting yet unified whole, which breaks the homogeneity of physical retail spaces in modern cities and explores the deep relationship between nature and the artificial.". A spherical volume forms an entrance to the store's more private spaces. "To meters of the massive sphere and the tunnel," said the studio.

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