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Artefact is developing an interesting concept design that aims to bridge the gap between the physicality of the real-life retail experience, and the flexibility of an online shopping platform.
The concept is called “The Wall”. It’s a large, monolithic looking interactive display that interacts with in-store physical products, and then aggregates associated online content about that [...]
Although we visited Urban Outfitter’s garden center last year, we were so charmed with the experience there that we had to pay a visit when we were in the neighborhood last weekend. Garden center doesn’t describe the Terrain store well. It’s a home and garden wonderland.
Suburbia is often written off as a wasteland of MacHomes [...]
A follow up to Scott’s post on PSFK yesterday, we’ve got some photos and more information on Free Store, the part cultural pop-up shop, part second hand boutique in Lower Manhattan. Created by artists Athena Robles and Anna Stein, the Free Store is a model of economic sustenance that we believe could be used (at [...]
Green Depot, a new retail concept aimed at making eco-conscious shopping easier, opened today in New York City. The 3,500 square foot flagship store is designed to be consumer friendly, informative, and unique. The Bowery store itself is a model for what can be done with eco and recycled products. Green Depot has applied for [...]
London firm Sarah Wigglesworth Architects have completed a bike store in Bermondsey, London.
The building is constructed from 13 Douglas Fir portal frames, clad externally with triangular, stainless-steel panels and internally with translucent, glass-reinforced plastic sheeting.
The enclosure can store 76 bikes using a double-decker system designed by bicycle rack producers Josta.
Photos are © Mark Hadden Photography.
Here is some more information [...]
PROJEKTPILOT GmbH wanted to represent themselves with the intelligent implementation of an unusual design idea and to prove their realisation skills. A simple idea became a highly complicated task. In the end, 8,140 cardboard tubes with a total length of 10 kilometres and a weight of over 18 tons were stacked to form a single wall. A special [...]
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/5379/new-concrete-works-by-rainer-spehl.html
Heavy Duty Public Furniture by Rainer Spehl
German designer Rainer Spehl together with Alexis Oehler designed ‘Heavy Duty,’
a series of public furniture made with wood and concrete. The benches produced
by betonware are located in Alexanderplatz subway station Berlin. Other recent work
by Spehl include an open plan kitchen that consists of a simple concrete bench.
http://rainerspehl.com
Philippe Starck recently designed the interior of Ramses Restaurant in Madrid, Spain, with a medieval touch.
http://www.philippe-starck.com
[via Design Boom ]
The LA Times has a gallery of home furniture marking the rise of gold as the material of choice for the wealthy. Most of the pieces shown are priced in the thousands, but the article claims that we’ll see the trend trickle down to mass market in the upcoming seasons.
Unless filtering down means diluted gold [...]
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