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Ikea bets on remote interior design as AI changes sales strategy

Inside Retail

Ikea is training call centre workers to become interior design advisers as the Swedish furniture giant aims to offer more home improvement services and hand run-of-the-mill customer queries to an artificial intelligence bot called Billie. In the UK, customers pay $31.44 billion of revenue in Ingka’s 2022 financial year – 3.3

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How to Create Functional Layouts for Small Restaurants

Mindful Design

You may dream of opening a quaint little restaurant that offers something different from the cookie-cutter interiors and services of the big chains. However, the small square footage of such a restaurant may come with challenges.

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A Disruptive Design For A New-Age Tea Drinkers’ Haunt

Retail Focus

To achieve this, the designers at The Melange Studio embraced the clients’ brief, which asked for a global, yet local experience that draws from the disruptive success of Starbucks in India. The brand’s core values are translated into the interior space in terms of authenticity, innovation, and an on-trend quirkiness.

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Types of Retail Store Layouts

Creative Displays Now

Both drawing up a retail store design from scratch and revamping an existing store layout require a basic understanding of the retail store layout options available to you. Below, you will learn what a retail store layout is, what makes a retail store layout so important and the seven most common types of retail layouts.

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Architecture for London creates demountable wood interior for Present & Correct store

Dezeen

Local studio Architecture for London has designed an interior for stationery store Present & Correct in London , which features gridded joinery and draws on "wunderkammer" cabinets of curiosities.

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Studio FB creates gallery-like interior for Frame store in Marylebone

Dezeen

French interior design Studio FB and the co-founder of fashion brand Frame, Erik Torstensson, have designed a California-informed store for the brand in London. We imagined this new concept design layout as open as possible, which can be compared to a gallery."

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Interiors inspiration: Design Week favourite recent projects

Design Week

EGO Hair Salon, by IS Architecture and Design. IS Architecture and Design was briefed to turn a disused gym into a space age hair salon. Moxy South Beach Hotel, located in Miami, Florida, has been designed by New York-based Rockwell Group. Now, it is the site of a new coffee and cocktail bar, designed by Liqui Group.

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