Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2024

Where community and commerce meet: Battersea Power Station Originally opened in the 1930s, the newly transformed Battersea Power Station is an excellent example of retail and community coming together in one beautifully designed development. I caught the tube to spend the morning there and it was definitely worth the visit.

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Greater Group

JUNE 9, 2023

Retail design concepts have come a long way from simply putting one’s wares on display with the goal of getting people to buy. While that remains the bottom line of all retail design, the retail design concepts of today focus on forming a connection between a brand and the consumer.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 23, 2023

These ephemeral retail spaces offer a unique platform for luxury brands to captivate their audience and deliver a heightened sense of luxury through carefully curated themes, aesthetics, products, events, and communications. Luxury brands are constantly seeking innovative ways to engage their clientele and reinforce their exclusivity.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

Various Associates , the only Chinese design firm that participated in the flagship design, partnered with adidas to extract local Korean elements and blend them with adidas brand personality, creating a “home of sport” with closer connections and deeper resonance with local customers.

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Greater Group

JULY 11, 2023

Commercial restaurant interior design presents a host of different challenges from commercial interiors in general. While it is obvious that restaurants engage the senses of taste and smell in a way that is distinct from other retail spaces, what may be less obvious is how the engagement of the other senses affects the gustatory experience.

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Dezeen

AUGUST 25, 2021

The design of the recently opened Seattle store was based on a 2019 pop-up in the city , which was situated just four blocks away. As a digital-first company, Glossier has had the freedom to be experimental with retail in a way that beauty companies so closely tied to brick and mortar haven't," said the brand.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Fleur Carson, commercial sales director at Karndean Designflooring, said due to changing habits in recent years, with physical retail facing so much competition from online, retailers must emphasise emotional experience over functionality in order to win the confidence of customers. Also, the complete opposite can be true.

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Retail Design Institute

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Treat is the Retail Design Institute’s 2021 Store of the Year. It was designed in collaboration with Design Well Spent Company (Seattle). “We The Design Well Spent team solved a number of business issues for XpresSpa Group, which was forced to pivot its business model of airport-based spa treatments due to the pandemic.

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Retail Design Institute

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Treat is the Retail Design Institute’s 2021 Store of the Year. It was designed in collaboration with Design Well Spent Company (Seattle). “We The Design Well Spent team solved a number of business issues for XpresSpa Group, which was forced to pivot its business model of airport-based spa treatments due to the pandemic.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It is used to evaluate a store’s performance and to inform decisions about store design. Designers and businesses rely on it to make informed decisions in the hope of minimising risk. Such research validates the business case for a well-designed, beautiful store. Decisions are rarely made without the analysis of data.

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Greater Group

JUNE 25, 2023

Success never happens by accident; it happens by design—and when it comes to retail, none of the factors that go into growing a business should be left to chance. The “recipe” of a successful commercial retail interior design contains several “secret ingredients”, each essential to the effectiveness of the whole.

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Dezeen

JULY 2, 2023

Rounded walls and archways create a flow through this Montreal boutique , designed by local studio MRDK for Canadian sportswear brand Ciele Athletics. A textured lime plaster finish was applied to the walls, wrapping around the bull-nosed corners that soften the angles created by the offset displays. In one corner, a 12-foot-tall (3.7-metre)

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Greater Group

JUNE 9, 2023

In a perfect world, businesses would be able to take individual customers by the hand and show them around their retail spaces. Such personalised guidance is not always possible in the real world, particularly for large enterprises with retail spaces visited by hundreds of customers a day.

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