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Happy Kitchen is a new café-cum-organic food shop right next to London Fields station. What makes it really special does not immediately meet the eye (unless you read a bit more about them on the blackboards that line the walls), the owners try to source all ingredients locally as far as possible, reducing environmental impact and supporting smaller, local suppliers.
Situated in a converted railway arch, it serves delicious coffee and home baked cakes, using only ingredients that are in season. Customers are encouraged to bring their own containers to buy dried grains, nuts and fruits.
The playful interior reflects their eco-consciousness, chairs are upholstered with re-used hessian coffee sacks and organic vegetables are on display in wooden apple crates.
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Australian skincare brand Aesop is not only know for its excellent skincare lines, it has also built up a reputation for innovative interiors that make use of unusual materials. The newest addition to the Aesop family is a kiosk in New York’s Grand Central Station.
For their first American store, Aesop’s director Dennis Paphitis collaborated with Brooklyn based architect Jeremy Barbour of Tacklebox to create an unique interior. The kiosk interior was built of more than a thousand recycled copies of the New York Times. The copies were stacked, torn and bound to create volumes with that are both interesting and strangely familiar to commuters passing by in the Graybar Passage. The newspaper shelves are topped with powder coated aluminium and rows of neatly organised Aesop products.
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Tags: Aesop, new york, Newspaper
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52, a clothing store in Shizuoka-shi, Japan, was designed in response to the question: how do garments relate to space? Suppose Design Office decided on separating the space into a section that employs only natural light and one that uses solely artificial light. In doing so they attempted to correlate the arrangement and treatment of spaces to how clothes are worn and to how the clothes will be seen in day to day life, much like how artist produce art in and for certain lighting conditions.
The interior is gallery-like in its elegant simplicity and despite there being hardly any windows it has a spacious feel. A zig-zagging wall made of 9mm metal sheeting separates the different spaces in a delicate way that still allows a strong visual and physical connection. In the daylight section, coats, trousers and shirts are illuminated by a recessed skylight. The intention for this part of the space to be ‘exterior’ is reiterated by the small trees that line the dividing metal wall.
The ‘interior’ space is softly lit by bare light bulbs suspended above the space. Here undergarments, jerseys and accessories are displayed in the conditions under which they would normally be seen.
In the corner is a secluded mezzanine that overlooks the shop floor
(Images by Toshiyuki Yano)
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In Copenhagen type has jumped from computer screens and the internet and taken up residence in a type foundry where digital fonts can be purchased in physical space. The shop has been created for e-Types in celebration of the redesign of their online store Playtype and will be open for one year only.
In addition to fonts on usb sticks, customers can buy mugs, bags and books, among other things, that continue the typography theme.
The playful interior takes its que from the black and white chequered floor and continues in monochrome featuring oversized fonts on windows and walls.
The self-proclaimed ‘type nerds’ see the shop as a playground where staff can experiment freely with ideas. What is a shop now, may just be a gallery next week.
(Images via Dezeen)
Tags: type
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The story of The Mast Brothers Chocolate began in a New York apartment, where Rick and Michael Mast started processing cocoa beans with a homemade machine. Overtime they refined their creation and started sourcing beans from family farms as far as Madagascar and Ecuador. Their chocolate is now produced in a small, three room factory in Williamsburg, New York, with the same passion and care as in the very beginning.
On weekends the first room doubles as a shop front. Customers can browse their range of handmade chocolates in the pared down factory and catch a glimpse of the machinery that was used to make it. During the week is when the real action takes place, from sorting and processing the cocoa beans to making the chocolate and wrapping it.
The history and process of making chocolate is as important to the brothers as the final product and this care is evident in the quality, each bar is unique and no two have quite the same flavour.
The chocolates are hand wrapped in golden foil and decorative paper.
The brothers are now planning on navigating the Atlantic in order to source beans and get to know the people who grow them.
Images via The Scout.
Tags: chocolate, new york
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Andre Kikosi has completely transformed a disused warehouse in Brooklyn, New York into The Wyckoff Exchange, an organic food market and live music venue. The building boasts a new motorised Corten steel skin, nodding to the structure’s industrial past. The facade panels can fold out to shelter the pavement and open the space to the street.
The structure takes on a dramatic alter ego by night when the facade is lit by hundreds of LEDs in the perforations of the skin, giving the building a glowing appearace that reflects the vibrancy of the neighbourhood.
(Images via Dezeen)
Tags: Corten, new york, renovation, The Wyckoff Exchange, warehouse
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Japanese architect Jo Nagasaka of Schemata Architects has designed the interior of the first Aesop shop in Aoyama, Tokyo. Mainly built from materials found in an abandoned house in nakano-ku due for demolition, the space is minimal and contemporary whilst possessing the warmth and richness of traditional Japanese design.
Aesop’s range of hair and skincare products sit on bundles of timber taken from the abandoned ‘murazawa’ house and wooden panels from the house are reincarnated as neatly stacked display shelves. The best thing about this project is the attention to detail, clearly fuelled by a deep appreciation of raw everyday materials and the glimpses of past uses they reveal. Blank surfaces are defined by small details of the shops skeleton. Much like a Rachel Whiteread sculptures, channels are dug around water pipes and manholes in the floor and filled with epoxy resin and lighting cables are exposed and arranged in linear patterns, like delicate drawings.
via designboom images
Tags: architectural-fabric, architectural-interior-design, reclaimed-materials, retail design, Tokyo
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The Brooklyn-based office Snarkitecture has designed a pop-up store in collaboration with American fashion designer Richard Chai under the High Line in New York City.
While seemingly a simple black box from the outside, the interior features a topographical wall treatment constructed out of white foam that transforms the temporary space into an urban glacial cavern. The space is created as part of the Building Fashion series at HL23, presented by Boffo and Spilio Gianakopoulos.
The single material, carved by hand with the aid of a hot wire cutter, was extruded and excavated to create dynamic and seamless display areas for Richard Chai’s collection. Ranging from shelves to hang bars, the unusual interior arrangement calls for a critical curatorial eye for display.
After the shop was closed, the material was returned to the manufacturer to be recycled into rigid foam insulation.
Via designboom
Tags: Brookly, Building Fashion, high line, Pop-Up Store, Richard Chai, Snarkitecture
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New York based Z-A Studio have designed this shop entitled Delicatessen 2 in Tel Aviv. The shop interior is stripped down to the bare essentials with a lining of double height pegboard running from floor to ceiling, creating an adaptable and flexible product display.
Complimenting the blank canvases of the pegboards are splashes of vibrant yellow, highlighting pieces of found and recycled furniture. The designers refer to the pegboard display structure as a ‘dress’ with sections cut and pulled away to reveal a yellow ‘undergarment’.The concept was to create a retail space which is able to grow, mutate and adapt along with changing fashion seasons and an evolving brand.
Photographs by Assaf Pinchuk
Tags: architectural-interior-design, design shop, Retail Interior Design
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Brooklyn based architects Snarkitecture and fashion designer Richard Chai have teamed up to transform a retail space into an urban glacier using a single material, white architectural foam. An existing structure was lined with foam and walls were sculpted by hand with hot wire cutters creating a landscape of light and shade perfect for housing Richard Chai’s latest fashion collection.
Designed as part of the Building Fashion series at HL23, a collaboration between architects and fashion designers, the space reveals a curatorial approach to architectural design and fashion. Niches and insertions into the cavernous foam walls become moments of display, telling the story of the collection piece by piece. There’s just something so satisfying about the perfectly straight slices and rocky surfaces of the foam, however I did wonder about the use of such an energy intensive material for a temporary installation.Thankfully, the architects have recognised this issue and the sculptural walls will be re-incarnated as rigid building insulation.
Tags: architects, architectural-fabric, architectural-interior-design, contemporary-design, Retail Interior Design, temporary
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