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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. Dessert of your dreams.”. HAUS SHANGHAI’s signature robot, the ‘Probe,’ roams the main area next to kinetic horses, capturing Nudake’s spirit of experimentation and fantasy.

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Offhand Practice designs second-hand bookshop in Shanghai to mimic greengrocer

Dezeen

Both levels have an open-plan layout with circulation routes defined by shelving and clothes rails. Mosaic tiles made from stone off-cuts were used to form decorative wainscoting in the same creamy beige colour as the facade, which channels 1970s Shanghai interiors. Green mosaic tiles were used to frame the building's windows.

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Here’s what retailers need to know about central bank digital currencies

Inside Retail

A growing number of countries around the world are considering launching central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in a bid to keep up with the rise in cashless payments, even as companies like Tesla get behind Bitcoin and Facebook develops its own form of currency.

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Reflecting pool centres XC273 fashion boutique in former Shanghai towel factory

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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.

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Glass blocks divide Eye Eye optical store by Best Practice Architecture

Dezeen

Niches in the partitions contain mirrors and product displays The specified glass blocks are used to divide the store, forming angled walls with openings that feature mirrors, product displays and furniture that spans both sides.

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WGNB creates minimal monochrome SVRN store in Chicago

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Various architectural and furniture elements form pathways for shoppers to meander Black railings transverse the walls, puncturing curved and flat vertical partitions made from materials including concrete, steel and black-stained thermowood. Read: WGNB designs all-black flagship store for fashion brand Juun.J "The

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AIA Estúdio designs cave-like interior for clothing store in Rio de Janeiro

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Its height starts small and in the back part it ends higher in a nonlinear form, just like a cave," AIA Estúdio founder Alice Tepedino told Dezeen. Rather than being a cumbersome obstacle, the pillar helps organise the shop's circulation and movement of shoppers, according to the studio. "It