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HAF Studio Store, Reykjavík Lifestyle / 13 Feb 2019

Fisherman’s shed transformed into concept store in Reykjavík’s Old Harbour

Since its construction in the 1910s, Reykjavík’s Old Harbour has developed into one of the Icelandic city’s most noteworthy tourist destinations and creative business hubs. Compactly knitting together cultural and shopping hotspots, the area’s latest retail outlet by one of...

Lifestyle / 14 Nov 2018

Nike unveils immersive New York flagship with carved glass façade

Nike has unveiled its new flagship store on Manhattan’s illustrious Fifth Avenue and it’s a six-floor immersive brand temple that seeks to redefine the retail experience. Real life shopping has been given a run for its money by its digital...

Fashion / 2 Jul 2018

Stairways to retail heaven: the best treads in-store

In luxury boutiques around the world, staircase design is seriously on the up. Staircases constructed from intricate jigsaw pieces of marble, graphic folds of burnished metal, or spiralling organic forms, are enticing customers to venture into the upper echelons of a store. Here...

Lifestyle / 18 Jun 2018

Farshid Moussavi’s new Harrods Toy Department is a joyful exercise in colour theory

Freshly reinvented by London-based Farshid Moussavi Architecture, the Harrods Toy Department has reopened its doors on the fourth floor of the storied department store. It comprises a suite of eight individual boutiques, each dedicated to a specific toy category, distinctive...

Lifestyle / 18 Jun 2018

Sybarite designs a 2.7 million-sq-ft luxury retail destination in China’s oldest city

Xi’an has gained an imposing, 2.7 million sq ft department store, courtesy of architect and design firm Sybarite. After the extraordinary success of its design and rebranding for SKP Beijing – currently the world’s second most successful department store...

Watches & Jewellery / 14 Dec 2017

Light fantastic: Rev Architecture creates a dynamic new window concept for Nirav Modi

He has worked with Jaime Hayon and Atelier Marika Chaumet to design interiors for his flagship boutiques in the world’s top cities, and now the Indian jeweller Nirav Modi  has cast his keen design eye to Rev Architecture for a new...

Lifestyle / 24 Nov 2017

A new lifestyle emporium in Vancouver reads like a sleek, new world souk

Bucking the trend toward downsized or disappeared retail spaces, Vancouver’s new Leisure Center offers an exciting reinvention of the lifestyle store. Built on the bones of an old furniture shop in a 1930s heritage building, the two-storey, 22,000 sq...

Fashion / 7 Jul 2017

Outside the box: Birkenstock debuts a new mobile retail concept in Berlin

Andreas Murkudis opened his first shop in Berlin after 15 years as director of the city’s Museum der Dinge (Museum of Design). It was 2003 and the dawn of the ‘concept store’ – a haloed interior that took the austere...

Design / 15 Jun 2017

Home in one: Snowe’s new concept space is an apartment, showroom and retreat

The home furnishings industry has had its fair share of disrupters, but few have managed to put it all on show quite like Snowe. The online homewares label, which carries everything from its own quality dinnerware, placemats and glasses, to...

Design / 27 Sep 2016

Luxury home décor brand L’Objet opens its first retail store in New York’s West Village

Elad Yifrach, the former interior designer behind the luxury home décor brand L’Objet, has opened his first brick-and-mortar location in Manhattan, at 370 Bleecker Street in the West Village. ’I wanted to connect with the customer base in a way...

Lifestyle / 12 Sep 2016

Member’s market: Soho Home lets you take Soho House furniture away with you

The Soho House group has long since dispensed with the services of external designers – Tom Dixon, Martin Brudnizki and Ilse Crawford among them – establishing an in-house design studio in New York (though Tadao Ando is working with the...

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