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Red staircase anchors Diesel store in Miami Design District

Dezeen

The store's focal point is a red lacquered-metal spiral staircase The helical lacquered-metal form has solid balustrades and steps with a diamond-plate texture for added grip. Red was also applied selectively to interior elements, including a statement spiral staircase and a wall behind at the back of the store.

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Al-Jawad Pike creates marble "immersive experience" for APL's Soho flagship in NYC

Dezeen

The textured display plinths were developed with a bespoke fabricator based in New York, who CNC-carved the forms. The studio incorporated various other materials into the scheme such as textured sprayed plaster on the walls, Romano travertine for the floor, and champagne-coloured anodised aluminium for the display boxes.

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Liang Architecture Studio creates retrofuturistic boutique in Hangzhou

Dezeen

For the Audrey boutique, this is translated into symmetrical brutalist forms made from micro cement and steel that the designers said create a "church-like" feeling and "a sense of ritual". The micro-cement structures form the walls, ceilings and displays, pairing graceful curves with sharp geometric elements.

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Choosing the Best Materials for Visual Merchandising Concepts in Luxury Retail Stores

Retail Focus

Enthral your customers by mixing and matching materials with other styles and knowing which material best suits your visual merchandising concepts. Metal has a broad application of surface effects and metallic tones formed through various methods such as electroplating and coating that bring a wow factor to the visual display.

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Eye Candy: how “beautification” becomes the new retail currency.

Retail Focus

A comprehensive brand experience is promoted from the outside and into the physical space as well as other brand touchpoints. Pop-up stores are giving brands the opportunity to explore different formats, different styles and experiment with a variety of forms. They gradually invested in complementary services, experiences, and events.

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The LOOKNOW Xintiandi Flagship combines artistic studio with home comforts

Retail Focus

It is a visual focal point and a connector of the whole space, to create a smooth and seamless transition going from one zone or style to the next. Retaining and repurposing the existing conditions and introducing new elements form the “ongoing” design concept of the store.

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Design Space AlUlA: The first permanent gallery space dedicated to showcasing design initiatives

Design Middleeast

Design Space AlUla, a focal point for showcasing AlUla’s wide ranging design initiatives contributing to the vision for AlUla opens today. A panel discussion with Prior and Partners on Creating the Cultural District; a workshop with Sara Kanoo on AlUla at Play; and several other sessions and design tours.

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