Casper Mueller Kneer Design a Perfume Fountain at the Heart of Caron’s New Paris Store.At the centre of Caron's new Paris store by Casper Mueller Kneer Architects sits the fountain, a full-height installation of hand-frosted, fluted glass tubes filled with perfume and lit from behind. Engineered and fabricated by Atelier...
Nina+Co’s Circular Eyewear Store for Monc Treats Every Material as an Asset, Not a Consumable.Nina+Co's design for Monc started with an audit of the existing site. Aluminium stair nosings were melted and recast into drawer handles and lamp dials; a reclaimed Douglas fir beam from a Staffordshire barn became the parquet, and...
Inside Yeyeland, the Shanghai Concept Store That Turns Mineral Collecting Into an Edible Art Form.Founded by a group of young mineral collectors, Yeyeland set out to share that appreciation with a wider audience, pairing real geological specimens with desserts shaped like crystalline forms. Studio 4/301 built the whole spatial logic...
CiguĂ« Designs Satisfy’s First Store as Two Mirroring Spaces in Paris.Cult running brand Satisfy has opened its first permanent home, and it's not one store but two. Supply and Fuel Station face off across Paris' Rue de Saintonge, designed by longtime Yellowtrace favourite CiguĂ« as mirror images of one...
Inside Achime Bagel, the Seoul Takeaway Where Brand Identity Lives in the Joinery.Where most small fit-outs offload branding onto signage, Jojo Workshop has built it into the joinery. At Achime Bagel in Munjeong-dong, Seoul, a modular pickup wall answers the rise of delivery orders, a timber sign board unfurls down the...
Kit of Parts: Bassike Byron Bay by Akin Atelier.Akin Atelier has been shaping Bassike's retail identity for over a decade. The brand's new Byron Bay store shows what that kind of continuity actually buys...
A Sun, Underground: Mecca Coffee Foley Street by Killing Matt Woods.Is this outer space or red earth Australia? Familiar or futuristic? At Mecca Coffee Foley Street, Matt Woods has made a room that declines to define itself. Part Coober Pedy dugout, part moon landing, entirely cocooned beneath...
Fractal Geometry Echoes the Rhythm of Weaving in This Gallery-like Jaipur Rug Store.Roar's design for the new Jaipur Rugs store in Mumbai takes its cue from the rug itself. The studio built a spatial system around fractal geometry, echoing the steady repetition of weaving. Because the brain reads such patterns as calming...
Oscar Bravo by March Studio: Tailoring, Rewired for the Jet Age.Oscar Bravo's proposition is disarmingly simple—a tailored shirt should be worn on a Saturday morning as readily as in an office. March Studio's 70-square-metre flagship dismantles almost everything the category has trained us to expect,...
