Hasta La Ideas

Garments hang from the recycled parts of four bicycles inside a sustainable clothing shop in Stuttgart.

German designers Markmus and Neoos Design dismantled the bicycles to construct both stationary and rotating display rails at the store for retailer Glore.

Unused wheels and frames are attached to walls and other furniture around the shop for decoration.

Lampshades are made from recycled cardboard boxes, while storage crates provide drawers.

Other shops on Dezeen that use recycled materials include a kiosk made from over 1000 copies of the New York Times and a shop filled with steel shelves that would normally be used in plumbing, both of which were for skincare brand Aesop – see all the shops here.

Here are some more details from Markmus:

Concept

Glore Store, the first sustainable clothes store in Germany, is committed to help small sustainable brands from all over the globe. From this point, we wanted to make a link with the most sustainable way of transport: bicycles.

Following this eco-philosophy, we also decided to reuse some material and collected old bicycles in local shops (they gently offered them for free), fruit boxes for other pieces of furniture, and recycled cardboard for the lighting.

All the elements in the store are related to bicycles.

• The jeans area is showed in a 3 turning wheels structure at the entrance.
• The main storage volume at the entrance is based on the image of asian bikers carrying tons of boxes fastened with a rope.
• The fitting rooms have been created by a tube of fabric hanging from wheels attached to the ceiling.
• The main hanging space is a 10 meters bicycle divided in 2… and so on…

The biggest challenge was to build up the lighting. In total 120 cardboard boxes were set in different levels (so we could have a playful and “cubes” sensation from the ceiling). We reused the old grid structure and held the boxes with small pins (nails) by ourselves.

The whole project was designed together with Udo Kloos (Neoos Design in Nürnberg), the designer who already designed the Glore stores in Nürnberg and Munich.

Design: Marcos Aretio & Udo Kloos

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Spotlights at the ends of tentacle-like cables illuminate the client’s collection of paintings and sculptures inside a seafront apartment in Belgium.

Rotterdam architects Ooze renovated the residence for a Dutch art collector by exposing the concrete structure, reconfiguring partitions and inserting a wooden floor reclaimed from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

This wooden floor wraps up around walls, as well as over sculpture plinths.

Paintings also hang on ceilings, while the image of a hilly landscape decorates a translucent curtain hanging in the bedroom.

Bathrooms and toilets around the apartment are partially screened behind reflective blue glass and the en suite washroom is located on a platform tucked into the wall.

This is the third project by Ooze to be featured on Dezeen, following a Rotterdam residence with a faceted skin and a community garden and water treatment plant – see both projects here.

Above: photograph is by Eric Klarenbeeck

Photography is by Jeroen Musch, apart from where otherwise stated.

Above: photograph is by Eric Klarenbeeck

Here are some more details from Ooze:

Knokke-Heist is a mythical cité balnéaire in Belgium.

The apartment lies on the 2nd floor with a view over the Rubensplein.

Above: photograph is by Eric Klarenbeeck

Despite its generous size, the typology of the flat is very long and narrow which makes the current layout very inefficient with regard to corridors and effective living spaces.

Above: photograph is by Ooze

A clear reorganization of the internal partitions and bathroom layouts enables us to develop a new specific concept not only for the space and the materials, but also for the display of the client art collection, a mini “personal museum”.

A frame to look out at the ocean and towards the beach in the daytime, the apartment becomes a glowing space to look into at night time.

Above: photograph is by Ooze

Increasing the perception of generous space was the prime goal pursued in order to provide a new living experience within. The idea was to blur the limits of the rooms to maximize the impression, the continuity and the fluidity of space.

This was achieved by a careful planning of niches integrated into the walls creating pockets on both sides, extending the volume from one side to the other.

These miniature rooms are not touching the ground. They are perceived as floating elements, with the floor opening out below them. The fact that the edges of the ground are not visible increases the virtual gain of space.

Immateriality and materiality are used in a dynamic way to provide a clear context of the outdoor / indoor feel, transparencies and reflections:

• Concrete for walls, ceilings, and niches
• Highly reflective glass for bathrooms and cross visual panels.
• Natural wooden floor salvaged from the original Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam creating a continuous surface that morphs into furniture, inducing this feeling of unity and space.
• The provenance of the floor constitutes a reference to the art world important for the client’s ”personal museum.”
• Collaboration with the artist Maxime Ansiau has led to the design of specific tiles for the bathrooms, with manipulated illustrations of original Dutch landscapes.
• Layered curtains by Designer Eric Klarenbeek are overlaying boats and dune landscapes

They create an indoor landscape that expresses a close relationship between the client and his home country, the Netherlands.

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Ooze 51:Sea Side  Apartment
Project: Holiday Apartment for a Dutch art collector
Location: Knokke-Heist-BE
Areas: 150 m2

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Team: Ooze – Eva Pfannes, Sylvain Hartenberg, Mauricio Freyre, Rene Sangers
Consultant: Mobile Kitchen / Tiles: Maxime Ansiau  –  Artist
Dining-table: Ooze & Vincent de Rijk – Designer
Curtains: Erick Klarenbeek – Designer

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Site manager:  Ruben Cattrysse – Crux architecten
Date: Completed July 2010

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Japanese designers Nendo will draw black and white floorboards that appear to flow around plinths for their solo show at the National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute later this month.

Designed to showcase their Thin Black Lines and Dancing Squares projects, the exhibition will be divided into two rooms – one with black drawings on white and the other with white on black.

The walls of the second room will be curved as though visitors are walking through the image in a fish-eye lens.

See all our stories about Nendo here.

Photographs are by Daici Ano.

The information below is from Nendo:

Nendo’s solo exhibition in Taiwan will be held by the end of August.

“Nendo’s solo exhibition” design concept

A solo show at the Taiwanese government-sponsored National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute featuring two collections.

‘Thin black lines’ is a collection of furniture formed from ‘still black’, so we wanted to use ‘active black on white’ for the exhibition space. The drawings on the floor flow like river water around the exhibition stands.

‘Dancing squares’ is a collection based on the concept of ‘active white’, so we wanted a space that expressed the idea of ‘still black on white’.

Our room-sized sketch, affixed to walls and floor, uses a fish-eye lens-like effect as though viewers are seeing it through a tiny water drop.

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Skincare products at Aesop‘s latest store in Paris are displayed on 427 steel caps that would normally be used in the city’s plumbing network.

Designed by Parisian studio Ciguë, the shop is located in the winding streets of the historically aristocratic Le Marais district.

The wall-mounted dishes are filled with clear resin to form a flat surface and finished in varying degrees of blackened, rusted and stripped steel. Larger plumbing caps create basins in the polished concrete counters.

The cast iron spotlights, steel window frames and plant pots in the courtyard beyond were all custom-designed by Ciguë.

Have a look at Aesop’s other stores here, including a kiosk in New York made of 1000 newspapers and another Paris store that’s covered in 3500 pieces of wood.

The information that follows is from Aesop:

Aesop Le Marais

Aesop is pleased to announce the opening of our third Paris store in rue Vieille du Temple in Le Marais. This historical precinct has successively been home to religious orders, nobility and artisans, and was thankfully preserved from Haussmann’s overhaul of Paris.

Today, it displays beautiful buildings in narrow streets, and hosts many excellent cafés and museums. We would not have dreamt of better neighbours.

Aesop Le Marais is a light, minimalist room of polished concrete, with windows on the back wall allowing light to fill the room, and offering a glimpse of lush greenery in the courtyard.

The key element of the design is the integration of 427 small polished steel dishes into the walls, an acknowledgement of the industrial history of this part of Paris. The dishes are, in fact, the curved ‘lids’ which close the pipes used as plumbing throughout the city.

Utilising this material – which is cold to touch yet catches warm light, aesthetically pleasing yet functional – lends the space lyricism and invites our customers to explore and interact with our products.

As always, the design serves to showcase Aesop’s full range of superb skin, hair and body products.

64, rue Vieille du Temple 75003 Paris

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Mirrors lining the ceilings and walls of a tiny pop-up clothing shop in Warsaw create the illusion of endless rails of garments. 

Polish architects Super Super and Inside/Outside collaborated to design the temporary pavilion inside a mobile office container for clothing retailer Zuo Corp.

Lengths of LED lighting surrounding the edges of the walls are reflected in the mirrors and appear to be part of an infinite illuminated grid.

To one side of the sales floor are a storage cupboard and dressing room, which ironically has no mirrors inside at all.

The pavilion occupied the city centre site for three months earlier this year.

Another clothes store by Super Super published on Dezeen uses cheap materials from a builders’ merchant – see our earlier story here.

Photography is Jacek Majewski.

Here are some more details from Super Super:

Zuo corp. Pop-up shop, Bracka 20, Warsaw.

A temporary Pop-up shop for an independent clothing brand Zuo corp. was planned initially for the gardens of the Warsaw University Library during the summer. The building of the project however was postponed to the winter and relocated to the city center, opposite the popular Warsaw café ‘Między Namiʼ address Bracka 20. Zuo Corp. Pop-up shop opened on the 18th of December and was open for a limited time of just 3 months.

The designers were given the use of a small sidewalk space, which would normally be allocated to café ‘Między Namiʼ in the summer as a garden café. A major requirement for the project was to use two interconnected office containers (dimensions 4.65 x 5.60 x 2.31m) that the investor had at their disposal. The metal insulated structure of the container was supposed to provide protection from the difficult weather conditions: heavy rain, snow and strong frosts (up to -20 ° C) occurring at this time of the year in Warsaw.

The aim was to achieve maximum effect with minimum means, having a small budget and the use of the base structure of the containers. Another important task was to create a surprise effect when entering the pop-up shop. Small, inconspicuous object, as it seemed from the outside, was creating an “Alice in Wonderland” effect, to introduce the viewer to another world. The outer facade of the black cube did not announce what happened inside the pavilion. The containers were tightly “packed” in black canvas evoking an association with a magic box of a prestidigitator.

A space of 27 square meters was divided in 3 different functions: a main exhibition room with dimensions of 4.5 x 4.5 m, and a small facilities area with storage and dressing room. The ceiling height of the space was very low, only 2.2 meters. To avoid the impression of being in a confined space, we decided to visually enlarge the main room to infinity by lining the walls and ceiling with mirrors. The floor was covered with black linoleum. The doors to the back and into the dressing room were also hidden behind mirrors. The changing room was lined with black cloth. The customers had to go outside the dressing room to see their own reflection.

All edges of the interior walls were accentuated with stripes of LED lighting. This being the only source of the light to the room combined with the mirrors strongly emphasized the illusion of boundless space. The impression of the space having a low ceiling – gone: The clothing, light, people and floor all reflected in the
mirrors to infinity became the only heroes of the interior space. From every angle attention was focused purely on the new styling of the customer.

The project is a joint work of two design studios: Super Super (Hanna Kokczyńska, Jacek Majewski) and Inside/Outside (Agnieszka Kuczyńska). We all live and work in Warsaw.

Name project: Zuo Corp
Used materials: office container, mirrors, LED lighting, black canvas
Construction methods: office containers, interior wooden structure
Furniture manufacturer: custom made
Lighting manufacturer: custom made, stripes of LED lighting
Floor area (m2): 27 m2
Costs (€): 10 000 €
Date of completion: December 2010

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