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Japan’s department stores: What’s left when the tourism tide goes out?

Inside Retail

Japan’s storied department stores are riding a wave of overseas tourists, and although there is no sign yet of a wipeout, the cautious pronouncements of company executives indicate that it’s a wave they can’t ride on indefinitely. On the surface of it, department stores still have their mojo: sales in October rose by 5.3

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Multi-dimensional, story-telling design for South Korea’s largest, luxury department store

Retail Focus

Lotte enlisted London luxury retail designers Shed , known for a distinctly contemporary and progressive international design style, to reimagine a ‘different kind’ of department store, Lotte’s first major project in 7 years. A story of two halves with both a Menswear and a Children’s department.

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Department Stores – what does the future hold?

Retail Focus

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. Changing culture of shopping.

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OMA adds wood-clad escalators to KaDeWe department store in Berlin

Dezeen

Architecture studio OMA has revealed images of the first completed part of its renovation of Berlin department store KaDeWe, a retail and event space connected by wood-clad escalators. Wood-clad escalators sit in the centre of the space. The quadrant encompasses the beauty department.

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Dezeen's top 10 shop interiors of 2022

Dezeen

A fashion store filled with pillows and a furniture showroom that looks more like a luxury apartment are among our pick of the best shop interiors of the year, in the next instalment of Dezeen's review of 2022. Read on for Dezeen's top 10 shop interiors of 2022: Photo by Michael Rygaard. Photo by Benoit Florençon.

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Leaf-shaped aluminium panels cover ceiling of Tokyo department store

Dezeen

Japanese studio Lighting Planners Associates lit a white tree-like canopy for the interior refurbishment of the historic Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store in Tokyo. The retail brand traces its history back to 1673 and a kimono fabric seller named Echigoya, while the department store was established in 1904.

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USM Haller creates "techno-chic" Coperni retail space at Parisian shop-in-shop

Dezeen

Parisian fashion brand Coperni has collaborated with Swiss furniture company USM Haller to create its first-ever boutique, a shop-in-shop at French department store Printemps Haussmann. The floor of the retail space was covered in Versailles parquet flooring, with each of the wooden floor panels separated by USM Haller's silver tubing.