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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. The space will be inclusive of all design disciplines from architecture and urban planning, to product and graphic design.

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Six standout retail spaces, from a double-decker bus to luxury flagships

Inside Retail

Following a refurb, the BAF bus is now complete with air-conditioning, comfortable couches, functional workout spaces, a full sound system, with eight speakers, a subwoofer, and LED lighting strips, and exclusive LSKD products. It seeks to minimise overstocking and clutter, prioritising open spaces and thoughtfully curated product displays.

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

Dezeen

The 3,900 square-foot space has been laid out in a curving amphitheatre design, with the interior designed to be "simple yet severe" while creating a "completely immersive experience," Al-Jawad Pike studio co-founder Jessam Al-Jawad told Dezeen. The photography is by Ståle Eriksen.

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Mooradian Studio sprays London boutique interior with recycled newspaper pulp

Dezeen

Architecture office Mooradian Studio used spray-on paper pulp to create a bumpy texture across the walls and ceilings of north London menswear store Natalino. This lends the space a feeling of cohesion in addition to providing the desired tactility. "I

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Apparatus updates Los Angeles showroom to include a “modernist grotto”

Dezeen

The entry program features wall with a rough texture "Upon entering, you find yourself in our version of a modernist grotto," said Apparatus. This surface treatment has a reflective quality meant to contrast the first space. After the grounding of the first space, this functions as a release."

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El Departamento designs Barcelona eyewear store as a "challenging visual exercise"

Dezeen

Slight variations in tone and texture differentiate surfaces inside the PJ Lobster glasses store in Barcelona , which Spanish interiors studio El Departamento has finished entirely in green. We wanted to get to the last step, just before a texture becomes a topography," the studio said. "It

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Bottega Veneta creative director Matthieu Blazy combines glass bricks and walnut for first store

Dezeen

Glass bricks feature on the walls, floors and ceilings of the store Walnut wood panels frame the textured glass blocks. The same wood was used in transitional spaces for a spiral staircase , curved corridor and for statement details like a display table and wooden columns.