Love the typography on this shop front.
Category Archives: Stores
A selection of our favourite stores from the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, big, small, independent and even some of the big boys.
Cassina – London – Brompton Store
Popped to Brompton Design Quarter the other day and came across the new Cassina furniture store which has taken the old Few and Far site. They have created a really beautiful store, elegant, stylish and contemporary. I particularly liked the way they had creatively used books as a dressing them throughout the store.
Here is some information about Cassina in their words.
Established in 1927, Cassina has been designing the future for over eighty years. During the 50’s the company, founded in Meda (Milan) by Cesare and Umberto Cassina, launched industrial design in Italy. In the rich and complex turmoil of that era, it was pioneering in the way it encouraged architects and designers to envision fresh designs and most of all translate their inspirations into reality. Taking a completely new approach, which saw a shift from handcraftsmanship to serial production, the company began to work side by side with designers. Since then, Cassina has shown a striking inclination for research and the ability to spark multi-participant dialogues between the most talented designers of both the 20th and 21st centuries, including architects and designers with quite diverse sensibilities, styles and creative spirits. The result: a mesh of stimulating ideas, from which Cassina always draws the best. This transversal culture of absolute quality defines the uniqueness of each Cassina piece.
Designers Guild – Kings Road May 2013
Here are a few inspirational pics from Designers Guild, as usual the store is an explosion of colour and pattern.
Conran – Fulham – May 2013
Conran has gone colour crazy this month.
Its celebrating Chelsea flower show with a feast of colourful products and displays.
Biscuiteers
Love love love this company
Visit their amazing store at
Biscuiteers Boutique and Icing Cafe
194 Kensington Park Road, London, W11 2ES
Visit their fabulous website
Artilleriet – hipshops in Gothenburg
Artilleriet
19, Magasinsgatan
19, Magasinsgatan
Live-Eclectic, Artilleriet creates atmospheres to be captivated in. They provide a dynamic and diverse collection of home furnishings, furniture, and accessories. The range consists of an exclusive blend of classic vintage and contemporary products. Some of the brands presented at Artilleriet: Comme des Garçons, Hay, Aesop, Astier de Villatte, John Derian NY, No Early Birds, Maison Martin Margiela, Society Limonta, Gubi, Tom Dixon, Lampe Gras, Alexander Wang, Mad et Len, Fermob, Gervasoni.
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Fat Face | Retail display furniture portfolio
Fat Face, the lifestyle clothing brand that produces clothing for men, women & kids, has recently opened a store on the impressive new retail balcony at London Waterloo, the railway terminus and London Underground complex. As the central hub for daily commuters and tourists, Waterloo is a pivotal location for the brand, so the need to create a visually impactful store that captures the very essence of the brand was paramount. To achieve this Fat Face enlisted the help of Andy Thornton and their Urban Vintage collection, for visual merchandising inspiration and retail display equipment.
Using innovative clothing displays designed by Fat Face Visual Merchandising Team, Andy Thornton helped to develop the bespoke fixtures and bring the designs to life. Heavy industrial steel fittings, with reclaimed timber shelving, have been blended perfectly with the rustic natural timber columns, beams, boarding and floorboards that provide the fabric of the building.
Simple yet functional T-Stands have been used throughout, as well as Andy Thornton’s popular and extremely versatile industrial shelving units. These can be adjusted to a number of positions, even folded to make a table, so that they can be used for clothes, footwear and accessories. A three-tier trolley in an eye-catching antique turquoise patina, provides the perfect display for hats, scarves and bags.
1930s-style French café side chairs finished in antique cream have been dotted around the store, for customers to sit on, whilst others have been cleverly utilized for displaying outfits on seated mannequins.
As well as using standard products from the range, Fat Face also commissioned Andy Thornton to develop and manufacture an exclusive suite of versatile single and split-level display tables and A-frames. These make use of rough-sawn reclaimed pine legs with timber shelves made from old floorboards. The steel brackets and shelf frames have a distressed finish with the cream top coat wiped to reveal a brown base coat.
Andy Thornton also supplied some of their industrial factory-style lighting, simple dome-shaped steel pendants in a pewter finish, above the till points.
With over 200 stores across the UK and Ireland, Fat Face plans to continue using the Urban Vintage furniture and lighting from Andy Thornton for future new store openings and refurbishments around the country.
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Fat Face | Retail display furniture portfolio.
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