Vintage isn’t just a passing craze; for many, it’s a lifestyle. People traverse the globe looking for one-of-a-kind items for their wardrobe and home that fall outside the spectrum of what’s on offer in most stores. Now, longtime collector Julie Janklow is bringing…
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Our second story today featuring products presented like model kits is Italian designer Fabio Novembre‘s window installation for Tommy Hilfiger at La Rinascente department stores.
I Have a Lifestyle included Fabio Novembre‘s interpretation of a man’s wardrobe, with items from the autumn 2013 Tommy Hilfiger Tailored campaign displayed alongside items including a champagne bottle, headphones and a bicycle to create a men’s lifestyle kit.
The kit of parts was split into sections, with a mannequin and small accessories on one side, clothing and larger accessories in the centre, then sports equipment at the other end.
“The final result was a still-life composite of the essential items a man should have in his wardrobe inspired by Tommy Hilfiger’s quintessentially all-American aesthetic,” said Novembre.
Pieces were held in place by interlocking metal tubes and the whole installation was painted blue.
The display was installed at La Rinascente in Rome in September, before it was moved to the Milan store for October.
Fabio Novembre is pleased to announce a collaboration with Tommy Hilfiger for its Fall 2013 Tommy Hilfiger Tailored campaign to create an artistic window display. The unique installation will be revealed in the windows of La Rinascente in Rome from 10 to 23 September 2013, and then in La Rinascente in Milan from 8 to 14 October.
Titled “I Have a Lifestyle”, the installation is Novembre’s creative interpretation of a man’s wardrobe, incorporating pieces from the Tommy Hilfiger Tailored collection. The piece features metal tubing with interlocking pipes running throughout, each coated with navy blue nitro and acrylic paint.
An expression of men’s lifestyle, the final result is a still-life composite of the essential items a man should have in his wardrobe inspired by Tommy Hilfiger’s quintessentially all-American aesthetic. Novembre’s “I Have a Lifestyle” installation will appear in the windows of La Rinascente, Italy’s most renowned department store, in both Rome and Milan.
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Dutch Design Week 2013: Dutch creative agency …,staat has designed the interior and branding for this alternative supermarket in Amsterdam, where ingredients are grouped together as recipes rather than food types (+ slideshow).
The interior for Bilder & De Clercq by …,staat includes a cafe area, which has a counter decorated with handmade turquoise tiles.
Wooden panels are hung across the ceiling and merge into shelves behind the bar to display bread.
Sections of the counter are cut out to accommodate freestanding wooden units with glass shelves.
Instead of traditional supermarket aisles, the store features bespoke white tiered frames with wooden surfaces for displaying food. The steel frames are grouped according to the ingredients of each dish, which is pictured and described above the produce.
The graphic identity, packaging and kitchenware for Bilder & De Clercq was also designed by …,staat.
The black, grey and turquoise colour scheme is applied to take-away coffee cups, printed recipes and store cards.
The range of kitchenware includes chopping boards, vegetables peelers and spatulas, all of which come in wood or metal.
The project was shortlisted for Best Interior in the Spatial category at this year’s Dutch Design Awards, held as part of Dutch Design Week. The category was won by a wooden staircase inserted into a medieval church.
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Design studio Weiss-Heiten used emerald-coloured tiles to cover the walls, floors and surfaces of the new Berlin store for skincare brand Aesop (+ slideshow).
Aesop Mitte is the brand’s first flagship store in Germany and was designed by Weiss-Heiten to marry Berlin’s industrial history with references to the Bauhaus art school.
Handmade concrete tiles in different shades of green cover most of the surfaces, intended to reference the monochromatic canvasses of German artist Gerhard Richter.
“Our aim was to create a space that combines the clarity of industrial grids with the strength of historical materials and their individual patina,” said architect Alberto Franco Flores.
Shelves made from both German oak and steel display the range of products, while a 1950s sink salvaged from an old farm was added as a nod to the building’s former use as a dairy shop.
The back of the building provides a meeting space to host events and extra room for running Aesop’s German online store.
Aesop regularly works with different architects and designers and each store features a unique design. In an interview with Dezeen, founder of the skincare brand Dennis Paphitis said he was “horrified at the thought of Aesop evolving into a soulless chain”.
The brand also recently opened a new store in London’s Covent Garden designed by French studio Ciguë.
Here’s some more information from Aesop:
Aesop Mitte
Aesop’s first German signature store recently opened on Alte Schönhauser Strasse in the capital’s central borough of Mitte. Crafted in collaboration with local architects Weiss-Heiten Design, it marries elements of historical Berlin with Bauhaus and contemporary influences. Inspired by Gerhard Richter’s abstract, monochromatic canvases, and by the city’s industrial history and everyday charm, the interior assumes a palette of sea-green and a quietly clinical aesthetic. Handmade raw concrete tiles cover the walls and floor creating a sense of having wandered into Berlin Alexanderplatz station or a hidden glade in the forest. A countertop of oiled German oak and near-invisible steel shelves provide subtle contrasting accents.
An aged sink salvaged from a 1950s farm tethers the heritage-listed building to its previous life as an early twentieth-century dairy store. Beyond the retail area, which occupies approximately half the store’s 80 square metres, a concept room provides the opportunity to host events; an additional space will service Aesop’s German online store.
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Wire-encased lights are suspended above oak-topped counters at this bakery in Poland by designer Maciej Kurkowski (+ slideshow).
Situated in Piaseczno, a town south of Warsaw, Kurkowski’s Przystanek Piekarnia Bakery features a custom-designed shelving unit for storing and displaying bread.
The unit occupies one wall and is made from 626 plywood modules stained in four different hues.
A large blackboard covers the adjoining wall for advertising the day’s menu.
Black electrical cables run up the walls and across the ceiling, powering light bulbs surrounded by intricate wire shades.
Oak counter tops sit on plinths covered in matte white tiles and with bevelled edges.
One tile on each plinth is replaced with a plywood module engraved with the company logo.
Kurkowski was also involved in the design of the Zmianatematu cafe in Poland, which has an interior lined with plywood ribs.
Photography is by Paulina Sasinowska and Maciej Kurkowski.
Here is some more information from the designer:
“Przystanek Piekarnia”, Szkolna 12, Piaseczno
Krzosek Bakery is a family company established few generations ago in 1959. Its values combine respect for the tradition and a need for constant development. Interiors of their shops are an embodiment of this approach.
The commission was to create a coherent interior designs for a whole chain of their shops. Individual look of each interior is achieved by use of a stained birch plywood 450x70x20mm module, that can be used to create almost infinite parametric design variations, while the rest of the interior components remain the same. Depending on the interior the modules can form a built-in display rack or a sculptural suspended ceiling that folds over the wall morphing into display shelves.
The first realisation of the project is in Piaseczno. Key feature of the shop is a custom display shelving unit behind the counter made from 626 plywood modules stained in four warm hues. This allows to keep the rest of the elements used in the interior monochromatic, achieving a balanced look with lightly coloured manually applied coarse plaster, epoxy resin flooring and electrical cables laid on walls in black encasement.
Oak counters sit on white tiled plinths. Matte tiles with beveled edges, resembling those used for tile stoves delicately diffuse the light. In each plinth one tile is replaced with a plywood module with new logo of the company engraved in it.
Subtle lightning was created using Thomas Edison’s design inspired light bulbs with an intricate luminescent rod encased in wire fixtures allowing the glow to delicately seep through the gaps which creates elegant overall effect.
Other two main features used in all interiors are a blackboard wall for announcing special offers and stainless steel furnace for baking fresh buns and delicious cookies on site.
Author: Maciej Kurkowski
Location: Piaseczno, Poland
Client: Piekarnia Krzosek
Total Area: 25 m2
Usable Area: 19 m2
Volume: 64 m3
Design: 2013
Construction: 2013
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Scandinavian architects Guise designed this retail space in Stockholm as a blank canvas for any fashion brand to display their garments against (+ slideshow).
Guise designed the white interior of the D&V Multibrand Store to provide a neutral background for different retailers.
Powder-coated steel pillars have perforated corners to accommodate a flexible steel shelving system and also allow clothes to be hung directly from the holes.
The pillars are arranged in staggered lines and spread throughout the store, grouped for garments designed by different clothing labels.
Central display units are made of asymmetrical stacks of angled boxes, which each flare outward from their bases to create more surface area on top for folded items.
“We used a floor area of 40 by 40 centimetres, equivalent to one folded shirt,” said the designers. “This area was designed to grow into a table with a surface for seven shirts. This was repeated until the table offered an area for 20 shirts.”
Oak-clad storage boxes line the edges of the shop and the cash register covered with toughened glass. All pieces of furniture were custom made for the store.
Guise have also designed custom-made furniture for this Stockholm shoe retailer.
Photography is by Brendan Austin.
Here is some more information from the architects:
We used a floor area of 40×40 cm, equivalent to one folded shirt, this area were designed to grow to a table for 7 shirts. This logical course of action was repeated until the table offered an area for 20 shirts. The final shape is a result of this commercial rationality, making a 20 times profit in display area.
Being asked not to have any specific garments or brand in mind the space was designed as a neutral space similar to a warehouse. White and with no branded features, hence the empty photos.
We designed a L-shaped beam with a perforation along the corner. Shelves were custom designed to fit the perforated pillars. The beams were distributed asymmetrical around the store, like a forest of pillars where clothes can hung or be placed according to every new items needs.
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News: designer and entrepreneur Gwendolyn Floyd has launched an e-commerce platform that allows female artisans from developing countries to overcome “economic discrimination” and sell jewellery using just a mobile phone (+ movies).
Named Soko, the platform is aimed at turning women in places like Africa into entrepreneurs, selling their creations directly to customers rather than through traditional supply chains that leave them with little profit.
“Women in Africa produce 60 to 80 percent of the continent’s goods, yet they earn only 10 percent of the incomes,” said Floyd. “Soko empowers craftswomen to become global entrepreneurs by transforming the ubiquitous mobile phone into a tool that expands access to economic opportunity for women, giving them a greater share of the profits of the global craft industry.”
By using Soko, makers are able to upload a vendor profile, product images and descriptions to the website using SMS, allowing them to trade even in areas without internet services.
Consumers can then browse, order and pay for the designs on the website. The credit card payments are transferred into mobile money, which is sent via text message to the retailers on purchase of their goods.
They then claim the cash at designated kiosks where they also deliver the goods to be posted anywhere in the world. This means the retailers receive the maximum amount of profit for their wares.
“Soko disrupts the traditional export supply chain, removing the middlemen to enable direct peer-to-peer exchange of goods and money between global artisans and online consumers,” said Floyd, who graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven in 2005 and co-founded Soko with MIT graduate Ella Peinovich and ICT developer Catherine Mahugu.
The service is open to men as well as women, Floyd explained, but added: “Women face economic discrimination that leads to disproportionate representation in the informal economy, leaving them unable to access financial services such as banks, loans, or credit, and vulnerable to the dangers and limitations of the cash economy.”
The lack of economic opportunities for women is one of the greatest barriers to sustainable development, Floyd added. “When women are able to overcome the institutional discrimination they face in the workforce and earn incomes, they make more equitable decisions about sons and daughters’ diet, education and health, they favour sustainable environmental practices, and domestic violence rates go down.”
A video promoting Soko (above) explains further how the site can help women. “Although these women are poor economically, they are rich in cultural capital,” it says. “Millions of women across Africa attempt to earn a living by supplementing meagre incomes by making and selling crafts – a skill that roots them deeply in culture and community. However, due to a costly export supply chain, their crafts are limited to the local economy with inconsistent demand.
Earlier this month design strategist Tim Kobe told Dezeen that women are the world’s “fastest emerging market” and will transform the design of everything from products to interiors.
Mobile phones have also been used in Africa to redesign to bus routes in Ivory Coast. See more stories about mobile phones »
Floyd sent us the following information:
Introducing Soko: A Global Platform for Innovation, Style, and Impact
Soko is the online destination for shoppers to discover stunning handcrafted accessories from around the world and purchase directly from the makers. Using Soko on a simple mobile phone, designers and artisans in the developing world can upload and sell their jewelry pieces online, with no need for a computer or a bank account.
Innovation
Soko’s unique technology platform allows artisans in the developing world to create online storefronts, sell to global shoppers and get paid, all using their mobile phone, even if they do not have access to a computer or bank account. This innovation, and our drive to continue building innovative solutions to promote the work of artisans, is at the heart of Soko.
Style
With Soko, you can discover incredible design and creative ingenuity made in communities that lay outside of the digital economy. Soko brings you exceptional style in the stunning handcrafted jewelry designs created by artisans the world over, directly to your door.
Impact
This unprecedented direct access, created by transforming the mobile phone into a tool, expands access to economic opportunity for women in underserved communities creating real, immediate impact and disrupting the traditional export supply chain.
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This boutique interior by Brazilian architect Guilherme de Vasconcelos features a red faceted wall that references the angular qualities of polished gems (+ slideshow).
Vasconcelos of GUIV Arquitetura designed the interior of the Las Chicas womenswear boutique that stocks Brazilian brands in Belo Horizonte.
The faceted wall houses a small illuminated shelf for products. Made of triangular MDF polygons, it is finished in a red lacquer. “The project strategy is inspired by the process of lapping and polishing gems, which transforms raw elements of nature in precious jewellery with angular faces and bright colours,” said the architect.
Large full-height mirrored doors hide two dressing rooms.
The white counter follows a similar triangular shape to the faceted wall and sits in front of a wall patterned with hexagons.
Women’s garments are hung from tubular stainless steel supports.
Other retail interiors that have featured on Dezeen include a Stuttgart boutique featuring a textured wall of 22,000 wooden sticks and an extension of Paul Smith’s London boutique with a cast-iron facade.
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Las Chicas Boutique intends to be a reference space for fashion in Belo Horizonte and seeks to enhance the Brazilian design offering clothing and accessories of consecrated national brands to the female audience. Located at the traditional neighborhood of Lourdes, in a street with high pedestrian flow and moderated commerce, the Las Chicas Boutique also promotes periodically vernissages and meetings for professionals and connoisseurs of the fashion world.
The project strategy is inspired by the process of lapping and polishing gems which transforms raw elements of nature in precious jewellery with angular faces and bright colours. The objective was to integrate a large ambient, clear and enlightened and impactful elements with angular faces and well-defined lines, to capture the attention of pedestrians passing through the region.
In that sense, the faceted panel is the key piece of the store, not only for its scale, but also due to the function it takes as space articulator. Made by triangular polygons in MDF, each one different from another, and finishing in pink matte lacquer, the panel continues to the back of the store and hides two dressing rooms behind the mirrors.The counter uses the same language, with faceted geometry and offers space for two people to work comfortably.
The clothing exhibition is made by four tubular stainless steel supports. Accessories are exposed on the bench just below the plow, at the sideboard and in panel niche. The layout adopted allows the non-linear flow of customers, which can freely explore the space of the store, and on events days enables the rapid reconfiguration of the environment.
Architect: Guilherme de Vasconcelos (GUIV Arquitetura)
Photos: Gabriel Castro
Start of project: September 2012
Building Completion: March 2013
Built area: 130m²
Building Company: Gilberto Lacerda & Cia.
Woodworking: Marcenaria Monte Santo
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A textured wall of 22,000 wooden sticks has been installed in this Stuttgart boutique by Swiss architecture firm ROK (+ slideshow).
The minimal interior by Rippmann Oesterle Knauss (ROK) for menswear store MRQT features white walls and a concrete floor to contrast with the wall of wooden rods.
Extending in various directions and to different lengths, the beech wood sticks create the illusion of a single flowing form.
CNC-drilled holes define the direction of each stick.
A range of menswear is hung on metal rails against the backdrop of the textured wall, which references moving fabric. “The installation refers to the flowing forms and delicate texture of textiles and cloth,” said the architects.
A full-height mirror lit from behind hangs in the centre of the feature wall.
Display stands and shelving are all made from the same beech wood as the sticks.
Other shop interiors featured on Dezeen include a shoe store furnished with wooden pallets, ropes and tyres and Zaha Hadid’s Milanese shoe boutique for footwear designer Stuart Weitzman.
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Photography is by Daniel Stauch.
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