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Swedish firm Note Design Studio devised a set of mobile metal trolleys to display shoes at this store for footwear brand Camper.

Display furniture at the shop in Malmö, Sweden, is made of perforated metal painted in pastel shades, and features wheels and handles for easy maneuvering when the shop is reconfigured.

The stockroom at the back of the space comprises 2000 shoe boxes housed in an archive of rolling bookshelves on rails, clad with mirrors on the ends and operated with big red winding handles.

The space also features an arched mirror leant against one wall, a cluster of Note Design Studio’s Trapets for Swedish brand Zero and their Bolt stool for French brand La Chance.

The walls are painted in dark grey to contrast with Camper‘s distinctive red branding.

“We created a space that conveyed the wayward energy in many of the Camper shoes, but still an environment where the products remained in focus,” said Cristiano Pigazzini of Note Design Studio. “Together, the various objects create a calm, inviting whole that can be easily altered just by manual power.”

See Note Design Studio’s collection of furniture inspired by camping and field trips in our earlier story.

Camper often work with high-profile designers on their stores, and collaborations in the last year include Shigeru Ban, Nendo and Studio Makkink & Bey. See all our stories about Camper retail design »

Photos are by Felix Gerlach.

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London designer Ab Rogers believes this student housing project he recently completed in London could set a blueprint for compact modern living in the city (+ slideshow).

Scape is a housing block for 600 students in London’s East End and contains study bedrooms that are no more than 12.5 square metres in area. Inspired by sleeping quarters in train carriages, the rooms feature space-saving measures such as cupboards that double up as desks and seating in the windows.

Ab Rogers says his vision was to “create a forward-thinking design language for small spaces that would appeal to a young target audience and be able to be reapplied in other environments”.

Corian surfaces give each room a clean white aesthetic, plus each one includes brightly coloured furnishings in one of six vivid shades.

“For the Scape project, we started with the rooms, which are highly engineered pieces of industrial design given a domestic veneer,” said Rogers. “Each is an individual pod, made off site.”

Block colours also aid orientation through the building, as a bright red staircase spirals up from the reception to floors that are each labelled with a different colour.

“The common parts needed to support a complicated social infrastructure for socialising, study and care for hundreds of young people,” added Rogers. “Dynamic integral wayfinding systems and vibrant colour codings knit the buildings’ internal parts together, while the individual rooms offer complete calm for every occupant.”

The accommodation is accompanied by two restaurants; a cafe named The Kitchen and a Pan-Asian restaurant entitled Box Noodle. Students can either dine inside, or order takeaway to eat in their rooms.

The Kitchen (above and below) comprises a busy European-style cafe with bright green chairs and suspended yellow lighting.

Box Noodle (below) features a more minimal interior furnished with long tables, wooden stools and narrow red pendant lights.

Scape welcomed its first occupants in September 2012.

Another student accommodation concept was recently revealed by MEK Architects, whose MySpace housing in Norway was modelled on the concept of a social network. See more stories about student housing.

Photography is by John Short.

Here’s a project description from Ab Rogers Studio.

A rethink of student accommodation by Ab Rogers Design

In September 2012, SCAPE, an innovative rethink of student accommodation, will welcome its first occupants. Two minutes walk from Mile End tube station in East London, its 600 rooms might be small, at 12.5m2, but have been perfectly conceived by Ab Rogers Design. Created for serious study and student socialising, cupboards turn into desks and the bed becomes a bar. Each room has its own compact bathroom and neat fitted kitchen, as well as a window seat that makes the most of all the available light.

Ab Rogers Design was inspired by the railroad couchette, and looked to other examples where space is limited and function is key, such as submarines, yachts and caravans, to come up with a solution that has maximized efficiency and minimized any loss of usable floor or wall area. The result is rooms that are innovative, livable and attractive. Materials include Corian, foil wrapped furniture and woven textiles, and each room has a simple colour scheme, matching white with lemon yellow, turquoise, vermillion, violet, electric blue or spring green.

For the communal areas and the bar, deli and restaurant, ARD has looked to multi-use public places such as museums and galleries and introduced a system of partitions on tracks and grids that allow spaces to be reconfigured to best suit the changing needs of the building. Colourful and flooded with light, it’s hoped that these areas will be at the heart of the community.

There are two affordable, high quality restaurants on site, The Kitchen, which is an all-day deli café, and Box Noodle, which offers a fresh take on Asian-fusion cooking. A state of the art fitness centre will be opening soon, below the main accommodation.

Design: Ab Rogers Design
Architect: Ernesto Bartolini, DA Studios
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Praline Design
CLIENT: Grosvenor House Group PLC
CONTRACTOR: HG Construction

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White walls are sandwiched between the exposed concrete ceiling and floor of this minimal hair salon in Kobe by Japanese designers Sides Core (+ slideshow).

Sides Core transformed a former cafe on the ground floor of an apartment block into a salon by stripping out the space and changing the original entrance into a window while moving the main access to the back door.

Translucent curtains are draped over the large windows on two walls and four gold spotlights provide the room with additional lighting.

Two freestanding easel mirrors paired with dissimilar chairs and a small black table are the only pieces of furniture in the cutting space, while a shampooing chair and sink sit in a niche created by a partition beside the door.

Equipment is kept hidden from view in a small store room clad in wood on the other side of the entrance.

The most recent hair salons we’ve featured include a pop-up salon by Zaha Hadid and Fudge at London Design Festival and one covered in ceramic tiles laid in a traditional English brickwork pattern. See all our stories about salons »

Photography is by Yoshiro Masuda.

Read on for more text from Sides Core:

There are just some places you never want to leave.

Theme parks, parks, and pubs, and for me it’s especially when I visit my friends’ home that I feel this way. There is nothing special about the doors or windows of this shop, and there are no large signs to be found. To start with, it is situated in part of the first floor of an apartment building. I think that the appearance of this shop is not that of a shop that is intimidating, but rather, that of a shop that possesses a perfect sense of comfort. That’s the reason you just never want to leave.

When I first asked about my client’s requirements, I got a sense of this perfection. I thought that the site, its location, and the services provided were very understated. The client’s wish was to create a place that prized relationships between people over all else. That’s why I felt that it was up to me to create something in a way that combined “just right” with the client’s “wish.”

I went about making my sense of “just right” and the client’s “wish” into reality. I made the existing door into the entrance and hung a plate on the doorknob for its sign. I then put lace curtains on the windows to ensure that no one could see too much, whether inside or out. I made sure that the set mirror was not too big and made it lightweight enough to provide for easy movement. Doing so allows one to change the room’s mood with ease.

When I thought about my client’s wish to foster relationships between people, I wanted to create a place where two people could come and spend time without feeling constrained. To put it another way, I wanted to make it into a place where couples or parents with children would not hesitate to visit. For it is my sincerest wish for this to be a place involved in the creation and continuance of relationships.

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News: British architect John Pawson has designed 26 high-end apartments for a new leisure complex at Miami Beach.

Many of the residences will occupy the top floors of The Miami Beach EDITION, a new hotel under development within the structure of the former Seville Beach Hotel, which opened during the 1950s but closed its doors in 2006. The remaining apartments will be located within an 18-storey tower that has recently been constructed alongside.

John Pawson‘s designs are for residences surrounded by floor-to-ceiling windows, which will lead out to expansive terraces featuring swimming pools, fireplaces and outdoor kitchens. The apartments will also feature a dedicated entrance, including an additional private route intended for the use of celebrity residents.

Bathrooms will be furnished with concrete bathtubs and sinks, while bleached teak flooring will run throughout. Rooms will be kitted out with all necessary furnishings and homeware, from bed linen to kitchen utensils.

The project was commissioned by New York developer Ian Schrager, who launched the Delano hotel on South Beach 15 years ago.

Pawson, who is based in London, is also currently working on the final stages of the new Design Museum under construction within the former Commonwealth Institute building in London. See more stories about John Pawson, including an interview we recorded with the architect in 2010.

Here’s some more information from the developer:

Ian Schrager presents 26 one-of-a-kind residences at the Miami Beach EDITION
These “Homes in the Sky” are designed by world-renown architect John Pawson

Ian Schrager is back in Miami Beach for the first time in 17 years since the launch of his game-changing Delano hotel. Delano ushered in a new modern era and rebooted Miami Beach as a top resort destination. It was the first new hotel to come along since the 60’s, and it was truly groundbreaking. It attracted those who had previously abandoned Miami Beach for more exciting vacation locales. Now, with the city on the brink of yet another resurgence, Schrager introduces his next groundbreaking project that captures the spirit of the times again, just as the Delano did. Miami Beach is no longer simply a resort destination, but is fast becoming a bonified, world-class, international city with its vibrant art scene, first-rate architecture and cultural institutions attracting global citizens from all around the world. It is now a city second to none.

With this new coming of age, Schrager heralds in this next era and raises the bar once again. This time for residential Miami living—introducing homes fit perfectly for and worthy of this new generation of global citizens. Just as Delano reshaped the landscape and had a groundbreaking cultural impact on Miami Beach, so will The Residences at The Miami Beach EDITION. These 26 limited edition residences set themselves apart from anything else in Miami Beach and are the most unique and distinct spaces in all of South Florida. “There is simply nothing else like them currently in the marketplace. We tried to capture the details of life in the details of the architecture,” says Schrager. All with commanding panoramic views, each of these sophisticated and stylish “Homes in the Sky” is a one-of-a-kind, custom one-off and different from the other. This makes them perfect for the new world traveler and global citizen looking to establish roots in the new Miami.

Designed by world-renown architect John Pawson, the residences will sit on the top floors of the existing, landmarked 1950s building that will be the Miami Beach EDITION hotel, as well as in an adjacent, newly constructed 18-story tower. Dedicated to the “Good Life”, The Residences offer the best of all worlds: the privacy and individuality of a custom, one-of-a-kind home; the benefit of ownership; and exclusive access to all the services, privileges and amenities of a unique world-class urban resort, including a myriad of exciting and dynamic food, beverage and entertainment options. Although part of The Miami Beach EDITION, The Residences will have their own dedicated private entrance as well as an anonymous “celebrity” entrance, for ultimate privacy.

Taking into consideration that people come to Miami to be outside, the outdoor spaces at The Residences are finally done correctly and are not merely an afterthought. Expansive “Outdoor Rooms” invite effortless continuity between indoor and outdoor living. Gardens literally in the sky are akin to those found in private residential homes. These extraordinary outdoor spaces feature private lap pools and plunge pools, outdoor kitchens, dining areas, fireplaces and pergolas designed by John Pawson. There is enough space for a private outdoor gym or to enjoy yoga, along with soaring panoramic views of both the ocean and the bay—a true rarity and a unique feature that showcases the bay and ocean during the day and the magic of Miami at night. Additionally, many of the homes in the new building feature expansive views of both the city and the bay while those on the top floors of the hotel have vast ocean views that make you feel as if you are standing on the deck of a ship.

Pawson uses an unparalleled level of finishes and details to create interiors of maximum comfort, functionality and aesthetic pleasure. Generous living areas are light filled with floor-to-ceiling windows and bleached teak wood flooring throughout, including the balconies and terraces. Each residence has Pawson’s magic touch with custom designed, open Bulthaup kitchens with islands as well as master bathrooms with Italian white onyx translucent screens and custom-cast integral concrete bathtubs and sinks.

It’s the art of living not the job of living. Schrager takes this concept to the next level by introducing “Residential Prêt-à-Porter” which offers residences in complete move-in condition… you only need to bring your toothbrush! For a seamless transition into a comfortable home, Schrager offers a once in a lifetime opportunity otherwise not available: custom interiors designed by John Pawson and the Ian Schrager Design Studio, including everything one would need in a household from linens to dishes, towels to cookware, all pre-selected, unpacked and put away prior to arrival. These unique homes, dedicated to the “Good Life”, offer all the benefits of ownership, the services and amenities of a world-class urban resort, and a completely managed household without the bother of managing it or the full expense of maintaining it. Schrager continues to exceed expectations by recognizing what residents want and need before they even know it themselves—a home with the work taken out of it, ideal for resort living.

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Garments hang from a wall-mounted wooden grid inside this Osaka fashion boutique that Japanese studio Ninkipen! has recently completed (+ slideshow).

The store for Japanese fashion brand Ring has an L-shaped plan and the wooden structure wraps the prominent inside corner to create a flexible display hanger.

“We tried to create uniqueness in this shop by maximizing the potential of the given space,” said Ninkipen! founder Imazu Yasuo.

Cement boards line the two walls behind this grid, contrasting with the white-painted surfaces of the remaining walls.

Fluorescent lighting tubes hang from the ceiling on wires to illuminate the space from above. “Utilising the high ceilings, they light the whole space uniformly,” explained Yasuo.

Additional garments are presented on glass tabletops and within recesses in the walls.

Ring Osaka is located in the Herbis Plaza shopping centre.

Ninkipen! have previously worked on various shop fit-outs, including a clothing shop with fake doors and a bakery where bread is displayed on a wooden sleeper. See more stories about design by Ninkipen! »

Above: floor plan

Photography is by Hiroko Kawata.

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