Retail Focus

MAY 18, 2023

It predicts that in contrast to premium stores suffering after the 2008 global financial crash, the industry is now showing that global sales growth in luxury retail is looking very likely to hit 3% to 5% growth in 2023, possibly rising to 6% to 8%. Pampering and rental H&M’s new flagship store in Regent Street, London is a case in point.

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Dezeen

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Wooden panels with a beige hue clad the walls of the store, creating a solid base element to contrast the colourful retail elements – such as the white and seafoam green cages that hold the merchandise. Displays line the walls. Glass display cases hold smaller items. Beige panels line the walls.

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VMS

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Curated by Charles Levine, The Shop Windows of Coventry city center invite artists, architects, designers and other creatives to take over retail display windows across the city’s core. The windows utilize vibrant color and contrasting patterns to create unique design narratives.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 9, 2021

Frasers House has been curated to offer a full 360 lifestyle shopping experience. Design features include raw exposed steelwork contrasted by modern interventions including flooring, fixtures and finishes. The ripple metal textures that are seen throughout the store are inspired by the original Frasers store in Glasgow.

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Design Middleeast

MARCH 20, 2024

The exhibition, titled The Majlis, curated by Firetti Contemporary, highlights the talents of artists from the MENA region and beyond, offering a captivating display of sculptures, paintings, and live performances that resonate with the spiritual essence of this sacred time.

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Creative Displays Now

MARCH 8, 2022

Anyone in the world of retail knows all the factors that go into curating an exceptional customer experience. We cut out the guesswork and break down the essential do’s and don’ts of curating an unforgettable and powerful display that can influence consumers and turn your brand into a household name.

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Dezeen

JULY 18, 2022

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 Walnut cabinetry is used to display products on the main shop floor. We wanted the space to evoke the feeling of some old members' clubs you might find around London.".

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VMS

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

It was also important for us to encourage customer curiosity by creating moments of discovery: curated spaces where customers can have a personal experience with each product. It plays with contrasts (think pale walls with a dark ceiling), and with shapes.

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Design Wanted

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Creative director Gerardo Cordova is an industrial designer with a background in engineering, executive director Escobedo Diego studies International Business, and curator Alexa Fernandez is educated in human behavior interaction. Mexico is a place full of contrast, elements and culture.

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Design Week

JUNE 16, 2021

“We have sought to bring the history of design to life,” V&A senior curator of design and digital Corinna Gardner says of the museum’s latest gallery, 1900-Now. According to the museum’s curator of 20th century and contemporary furniture Johanna Agerman Ross, these themes were conceived in autumn 2018.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2022

In total contrast to the smoothly curated feed of a perfectly posed influencer, a surge of content from users ‘exposing’ themselves via retelling of embarrassing anecdotes has driven over half a billion videos with the hashtag #cringetok. Bourgeois’s content is peak cringe.

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Greater Group

AUGUST 28, 2023

Also known as Australia’s “cultural capital”, Melbourne is home to several art galleries and its iconic laneways and arcades which are galleries in themselves for their vibrant displays of street art and jazz bars. Pink display shelves and the pink fur on its table legs and mirror frame provide perfect complements to the design.

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Design Week

JUNE 18, 2021

Other collaborations saw her work and form life-long friendships with the likes of Pierre Jeanneret and Jean Prouvé She was, according to Design Museum chief curator Justin McGuirk, a “natural collaborator and synthesiser” In her day, however, the calibre of her collaborators often overshadowed Perriand’s own talent.

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Design Week

JUNE 16, 2021

“We have sought to bring the history of design to life,” V&A senior curator of design and digital Corinna Gardner says of the museum’s latest gallery, 1900-Now. According to the museum’s curator of 20th century and contemporary furniture Johanna Agerman Ross, these themes were conceived in autumn 2018.

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Design Wanted

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Taking off from this year’s overarching theme at Dutch Design Week, “The Greater Number” at Dutch Design Week, design collective Envisions and Studio Rick Tegelaar have curated an interdisciplinary group exhibition focusing on the value of working together. Ultimately this material effect creates an ever-changing object.

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Trade Show Booth Companies - Trade Group

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Ideally, the layout would allow for a logical progression of the visitor journey, guiding attendees through a curated show experience. This supports seamless digital presentations and interactive displays and facilitates real-time social media engagement and live streaming, which are vital for amplifying the event’s reach.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

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. Echoing Parisian architecture, sensorial and mineral materials, such as Lutetian limestone, marble, and fluted concrete are enhanced by elegant, contrasting details of gold and wood.

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Design Wanted

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Curated by Studio Joachim-Morineau, “A blast from the past” showcased work from several emerging designers whose projects “reclaimed its identity using different mediums” including sculpture, furniture and ceramics. Hi Carla and Jordan, thanks for welcoming us: can you tell us where are we?

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Inside Retail

JUNE 1, 2022

Displayed on clear plastic shelves in her bedroom, they range from cherubic dolls to characters from Japan’s Pokemon series. Merchandise is curated for each region as the retailer adapts its offer to suit local consumer preferences. In contrast, our customers in Southeast Asia prefer the ‘chance’ aspect of buying blind boxes.

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Barber Design

MARCH 20, 2020

As a retail design, the pop-up is only in situ for 6 weeks so the design is simple and the main features of the store are the colourfully curated rails of clothes, arranged around a large patterned sofa and Persian rug. Inside the seating area features high-backed red velvet upholstered sofas set into textured gold walls.

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Greater Group

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Strategically placed lights create separation between the ceiling and the walls, while wooden walls and sharp concrete flooring provide contrast representing raw performance. TIFFANY’S @ CAT STREET. Tiffany & Co’s first concept store in Japan gives new meaning to the ‘breakfast at Tiffany’s’.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Not a single product was on display (to actually see products, you have to go up the stairs to the second level). While there were many cool features in the store, the curation of the products was quite restrained, so you never felt visually overwhelmed. Only one item of each product was on display, it was almost gallery-like.

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Greater Group

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Up your IG game with “The Magic of Jewel Photo Walk”, a photography workshop where Apple staff impart invaluable tips and tricks for your Apple iPhone, one of the 200 products on display in this sprawling customer experience center. Currently, the store carries retail products from carefully curated brands for men only. Books Actually.

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The interior walls of the store consist of hand applied terracotta elegantly contrasted by bespoke white clay bricked walls. The structure has a practical purpose too, as it will display key fashion pieces and lighting that can be seen from all levels.

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Dezeen

MARCH 18, 2023

KOT Architects has designed the interiors of Dior's showroom "The raw and rugged urban surroundings amplify the contrast between the various materials used and accentuate the cosy and inviting ambience within the space," KOT Architects founder Kfir Galatia-Azulay said.

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Design Wanted

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The key visual was drawn up by emerging designer Yang Shi-Ching, who used the concept of “UPLOAD” to construct a rhythmically ascending piece of visual imagery symbolic of a stairway in powerful contrasting black and white. The UPLOAD ceremony for the event’s broadcast was curated by producer Isaac Chen and Yang Shi-Ching.

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