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Karina Tollman and Philipp Thomanek of Israeli studio k1p3 have completed the interior for this fashion boutique in Tel Aviv, with a contiunous metal clothes rail dividing the store lengthways.

The shop’s window was narrowed leaving a horizontal strip of glass in the centre, while mannequins and displays inside are lined up to run parallel with the street.

Display stands and counters are made of MDF while horizontal lights hover over the central rail.

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Photographs are by Daniel Sheriff.

The following information is from the architects:

k1p3 architects designed a new flagship store for the fashion label Rhus Ovata in Tel Aviv.

The premises are located on a busy fashion shopping street, the Rhus Ovata brand identifies itself as a subversive brand and therefore chose a shop set back from the sidewalk. The architects’ concept for the shop was born from this position, trying to accentuate the depth of the shop. Creating a horizontal layering parallel to the street.

The shop façade was redesigned, using steel to close the lower and upper parts of the vitrine and leaving a clear horizontal strip through which the shop shines and draws passers-by in. Openings were introduced in the back wall exposing a back garden.

The materiality was kept minimal and basic in its nature narrowed down to a rectangular steel profile and MDF, and the style draws references from contemporary art.

The shop displays both the Rhus Ovata collection and it’s ‘Borrowed’ vintage accessories collection. The collections were organized in the space according to the layers concept.

The majority of the fashion collection is hanging on a continues single axis across the entire width of the space with three passages crossing it where the steel profile is set into the floor. In the entrance the same steel profile suspends from the ceiling creating a topography within the space.

Along the backdrop of the shop, the ‘Borrowed’ collection is displayed in a library next to selected art books and alongside it is a wall installation of vintage scarves.

Special diamond shaped hangers were designed and hand made to present the bags on a single column.

A great emphasize was given to the design of custom made light bodies. The light bodies generate a dialogue with the floor plan highlighting its orientation and creating a hierarchy in the space.

Long horizontal lamps were designed emphasizing the long suspended rack creating a ‘highway’ of light in alternating positions above it. Vertical, mushroom like, lamps were designed to highlight particular points in the space.

And pink neon was used for the logo, casually leaning against a wall, repeating around the single column. The logo and packaging branding is by Koniak design.

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Can’t decide on the right cover for that catalogue? Why not let fate lend a hand? How the local bingo hall became a vital part of the design process of Happy Forsman & Bodenfors‘ newest project

The Swedish design studio was asked to produce the catalogue for the 2010 Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize, the major Nordic design award. The winners were the Front design group who, explains HF&B art director Andreas Kittel, are renowned for allowing “external factors to direct the design process”.

In this spirit, HF&B decided to allow their own ‘external process’ a say. “We simply went to the bingo hall next door to our office with a specially made form with four columns – for C, M, Y and K,” Kittel explains. “While playing, we noted the order of the bingo caller’s numbers: Four numbers determined the cover’s background colour. The following four numbers settled the colour of the text. In total, we had to collect 800 numbers to create one hundred covers.”

Each cover was made individually (in InDesign). HF&B entered the bingo numbers into the colour panel, turning them into colour values.

“The range of bingo numbers (1-75) is very well suited for the project,” Kittel explains, “because it makes the maximum sum of a four number sequence 294 – the total ink coverage in a printing press should not exceed 300%.”

To add to the fun, the designers even won 600 Kronor (about £50) while they were playing.

Seductively curved bench cantilevered from a stainless steel leg.