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Club21’s new concept store is inspired by industrial design

Located in Bangkok’s EmSphere commercial centre, clothing retailer Club21’s new concept store is challenging traditional retail norms with its indu...

Design : Retail : Spaces

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Just add coffee

New York – Dairy brand Organic Valley has opened a pop-up milk bar that parodied artisanal coffee culture.

Anti-authenticity Marketing : Milking It : Coffee

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Store of discovery

Manchester – O2 has opened its new northern flagship store, shaking off the traditional mobile phone shop stereotype.

Dalziel & Pow : O2 : Phone Shop

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Cereal fashion

New York – Snarkitecture has designed an all-white and mirrored home for Brooklyn’s first cereal café. The monochrome destination brings niche di...

Kith : Snarkitecture : Cereal Cafe

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St Petersburg Safari

While Communism has left its mark on St Petersburg, buildings have been restored in recent years and are being re-appropriated as co-working space...

St Petersburg : Ginza Project : Ligovsky 50

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Retail Analysis: Jigsaw’s Duke Street Emporium champions the analogue store experience

UK fashion retailer Jigsaw has opened a miniature department store, The Duke Street Emporium.

Jigsaw : Emporium : Concept Store

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Selfridges to launch Fragrance Lab as part of Beauty Project

London – Selfridges will launch an immersive fragrance experience in partnership with trend forecasting consultancy The Future Laboratory...

Selfridges : Concept Store : Givaudan

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Class of 2013: Pop-up celebrates young creatives

London – To showcase the work of this year’s Bright Young Things, Selfridges enlisted French design studio Bonsoir Paris to create The Concept Stor...

London : Inflatable : Geo Luxe

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Tea retail concept puts theatrical lab-style experience centre stage

Sydney – T2B is a new tea retail and café concept that puts the drama of infusion and experiment centre stage.

Concrete : Retail Lab : Lighitng

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Museum of things: Cabinet of curiosities in Paris

Paris – It is difficult to describe Le Comptoir Général. It bills itself as a ‘ghetto museum’, but to reduce it to that would be to simplify the mu...

Art : Curated Retail : Zoning

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Soundscapes

Increasingly, marketers, designers and retailers understand that sound can influence behaviour. As technology advances they are dreaming up new sou...

Bespoke : Iceland : Installations

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Shanghai store marks Lane Crawford's return to China

Shanghai store marks Lane Crawford’s return to China

Concept Store : Personal Stylist : Mutlichannel

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Ciguë: Architecture

Ciguë re-imagines the luxury retail environment with acute attention to detail and a meticulous application of materials.

Sanctuary : Luxury Interiors : Meditation

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Celestial retail: Luxury store takes holistic route

London – A new shop has opened in Shoreditch that is part apothecary, part luxury concept store.

Beauty : Homewear : Apothecary

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Retail Gulf: Stone cold luxury at Dubai store

Dubai – Dubai has opened Mahani, the first concept store in the emirate, offering a curated selection of fashion, food, art and magazines in a brut...

Concrete : Concrete Interior : Artisanal Food

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Soft sell: Bank opts for a restaurant experience

Italy – Italian design consultancy DINN! has teamed up with brand agency Crea International in a new venture for ChiantiBanca – a store concept mak...

Finance : DINN : Italian Design

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Shabby chic: Habitat opens vintage outpost in Paris

Paris – Now French-owned, iconic interiors retailer Habitat has chosen a Parisian flea market hotspot, for a new vintage-focused concept space.

Paris : Vintage Design : Vintage Furniture

Design Directions

Yayoi Kusama for Louis Vuitton

Brand collaborations are two a penny these days, but Louis Vuitton is taking a fresh approach to the idea. In a partnership with Japanese artist Ya...

Louis Vuitton : Video Game : Storytelling

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Boon or bust: Seoul store is full of character

Concept Store : Faction : Man On The Boon

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Analyse this: Designer food lab dishes out diets

The Tomorrow Store : Tokyo : Laboratory Of Food Analysis

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Kurt Geiger rubs shoulders with fashion bloggers

Kurt Geiger : Fashion Blogs : Advertorial

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Mirror image: Diesel store prompts reflection

Installation : Homeware Collection : Magic Tent

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Waitrose branches out into non-food sector

Sainsburys : Creed : Canary Wharf

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Lasting Appeal: Long-life retail concept mixes vintage fashion and furniture

Vintage : Tokyo : Concept Store

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True Colours: London's new concept store

True Colours: London’s new concept store

Gary Card : Concept Store : JW Anderson