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

Dezeen

British architecture studio Al-Jawad Pike has used colourful marble for the interiors of trainer brand Athletic Propulsion Labs’ second flagship store in Soho, New York City. The textured display plinths were developed with a bespoke fabricator based in New York, who CNC-carved the forms. The photography is by Ståle Eriksen.

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

Retail Focus

The brand’s core values are translated into the interior space in terms of authenticity, innovation, and an on-trend quirkiness. Surrounded by verdant greens adjacent to two façades, the 15-seater teahouse provides ample floor height inside, countering the small footprint and lending the interiors a grandness in volume.

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Hollister Co. Announces New London Soho Store

Retail Focus

This new location welcomes local London customers and tourists alike with a brightly coloured storefront and an inviting interior that brings the product assortment to life against a backdrop of cool blue and white tones with warm wood fixtures and textured walls.

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A Taste of Uniqueness: Unveiling the Distinctive Realm of Commercial Restaurant Interior Design

Greater Group

Commercial restaurant interior design presents a host of different challenges from commercial interiors in general. These considerations must all be addressed in every aspect of a commercial restaurant interior design, from the concept and branding, to layout and operations, all the way up to the entire customer experience.

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The Psychology of Retail Interior Design: How to Use Design to Influence Customer Behaviour

Greater Group

When applied to retail interior design, this can be used to understand how design choices in a retail space can influence customer behaviour and satisfaction. Many consumers may not fully recognise the impact of a retail store’s interior design and layout but they are intuitively aware of its effect on their shopping experience.

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Kingston Lafferty Design creates "otherworldly" interiors for Dublin skin clinic

Dezeen

A palette of plaster, marble, terrazzo and stainless steel was chosen to create interiors that customers want to "reach out and touch" in this Dublin skin clinic by Kingston Lafferty Design. It is a very small space, so we needed to be clever when designing the layout to get the absolute maximum use from the space," explained Lafferty.