Alexandre Herchovitz (Tokyo, Japan)
Brazilian designer Alexandre Herchovitz does not shy from loud prints or bold designs, and Arthur Casas helps make the statement with his design for the Flagship store in Tokyo’s Daikanayama district. Featuring a double-edge razor blade design on the façade, the building is engineered to literally open and close to the public.
BAPE (Los Angeles, USA)
Japanese street wear brand BAPE makes kills it with their ultra-futuristic Melrose Avenue location in downtown Los Angeles. This corner store makes a huge presence on the strip, with a brightly lit interior, neon tubing, and a dramatic 4.5 meter high glass cylinder in the centre of the space, featuring a rotating sneaker conveyer belt.
Issey Miyake ‘Pleats Please’ (Tokyo, Japan)
Tokujin Yoshioka’s redesign for Issey Miyake’s ‘Pleats Please’ Boutique in the Aoyama district of Tokyo, is a tour-de-force of contemporary, minimalist, concept-based design. Yoshioka’s conception of the space includes transcending time by conserving the existing space with recycled aluminum, and an expansive light wall to accentuate the product and infuse modern technology into the retail experience.
Lucien Pellat-Finet (Osaka, Japan)
The fine cashmere and knit items of Lucien Pellat-Finet were the jump-point for Kengo Kuma when designing for the high profile Osaka boutique. Attempting to express the tenderness of cashmere, Kuma creates an organic pattern using plywood to mimic the coziness of the fabric.
Reebok ‘Flash’ (New York, USA)
Fusing early 20th Century Vorticism with the vibrant spirit of the 1980′s, Formavision plays with both perspective and depth, tricking the eye by extending three dimensional shapes into distorted graphic patterns. Much in the spirit of the brightcamouflaged battleships used by the Royal Navy in the First World War, Reebok’s Flash Concept Store is anything but a flash in the pan in the world of creative retail design.
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