Italian designer Sergio Calatroni has completed the interior design of Emporium, a fashion store in Tokyo.
The store features a series of free-standing, slanted walls, which can be moved to change the layout of the store.
Here's some info from Calatroni:
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Emporium shop project Tokyo, Japan
Text by Sergio Calatroni
The Emporium Shop of Tokyo is organized as a select shop dedicated to the young fashion which grow continuously in Japan. The shop needs a new display scenery.
Single enviroment of 220 square meter is organized with 4 principal paths who start from the shop window which gives a total view of the shop interior.
The paths are the result of the position of several movable slanted walls, some of the wall have different thickness to serve as a cloth stand or merchandise display.
The wall doesn’t arrive untill the ceiling and the free spaces are left for the interventions by different media as, graphism, photography, art, video etc. The type of intervention will change sincronized with the change of the season’s collections.
The showing zone are created by the wall wave at the inside and outside of the walls, the spaciality is always differents, dipends of theirs torsions. That creates the sense of course like the labirinth who let the public to discover the marchandises.
All the employed materials for the commercial space are the combination of naturals and syntetic materials with the effect of the particular textures. The wood are the mixture of precious and not precious wood, and them aspects are left in the natural way.
All the furnitures untill the small accessories are designed customized. The cashier is a geometrical solide with mixed-materials, and are composed by various modular and movable elements between them.
The techinic of the illumination exploit the most recent technology which regulate the light effect by the computer programming.
The inspiration of this shop design is to obtain the selling place with the flexible and interchangeable scenary from time to time, by the shift of wall-display and the redecoration summary of some elements in order to charecterise strategically the Emporium.
ETTORE SOTTSASS WITH A COLOUR SPLASH BY KAWS. SHOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE SOME RAGS ON THOSE HANGERS. 1990′S ARE TOO CLOSE TO RESURRECT THEM
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Hello this is Morgan
This is almost an exact copy of the Comme des Garcons space in Tokyo but with colour and patterns…
mg
Hello Morgan,
Can you show us some pics so we can see for ourselves? It’s so easy to say something without visual proof.
J
Super Sweet – very original work
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Hello this is Morgan.
Hello J,
Here are the best pics I could find online, of course its different when you are inside.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maurizio_mwg/2515785537/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/murphyandlu/2316007006/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kummi2006/2397216818/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/keik-t/912575344/
A definite influence on the Emporium space.
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mg
Hmmm.
Not convinced.
Just because the walls are similar – in the form of an inverted and truncated eliptical cone does not make the project an ‘almost exact copy’.
CDG, based on the few images I’ve seen, is still somewhat lacking and wanting.
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Hello this is Morgan,
Dear Scruces,
Once you have visited both spaces and felt how the volumes are used, then come back, we have a cup of tea and discuss it.
till then,
mg
Against Morgan Geist
We have done slanted wall in 1992 for Fujitaka Restaurant in Milan , befor Comme des Garcons. Please look at this Link.
http://www.sergiocalatroni.com/Pages/11-Commercial/com_fuji.html
It is not exactly copy because I saw Comme des Garcons. The slant wall would be similer but this interior feature already use many interiors.
Therefore Morgan cannot say it is exactly copy.