Japanese designers Nendo have completed a store in Tokyo for fashion designer Issey Miyake.
Called 24 Issey Miyake, the shop is inspired by Japanese convenience stores.
Each design is available in twenty colours and the store will completely change its stock every two months.
There are no stock rooms and garments are displayed on white shelving and hangers made of 7mm steel rods, designed to reference shopping baskets.
Nendo also designed furniture made of the same steel rods specially for the store.
More information and models in our previous story.
Photographs are by Masayuki Hayashi.
Here’s some text from Nendo:
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New concept shop “24 ISSEY MIYAKE” Shops opened at deparment stores in Tokyo
A new concept shop that offers a brightly coloured selection of items chosen from each of the Issey Miyake lines, alongside new, original items specially created for the shop.
Each reasonably-priced item comes in 20 different colours, and the shop’s lineup is renewed every two months. The overall concept derived from the Japanese convenience store, with its constant state of dynamic, fluid change.
To highlight this association, the shop’s name is ‘24′, and its logo features the kind of stripes you might expect to find on the facade of a convenience store.
The packaging, too, comes from food packaging.
For the shop design, we were inspired by the ‘harmonious chaos’ of Japanese convenience stores.
To keep the space as small as possible and fill it to the brink with products, we got rid of the back room storage – all of the products are on the shelves at all times.
Since the products themselves are so brightly coloured, we used no colour whatsoever for the shop itself.
All of the fixtures, including hangers and shelving, are 7mm steel, striped like a shopping basket.
The entire shop functions as a display, and the white lines of the steel fixtures give the brightly-coloured products a sense of volume.
The idea is that as the items change, the shop itself will change character dramatically.
Furniture for shops (photos by Masayuki Hayashi)
November 20th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
i dig it. can you dig it?
November 20th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
I do not understand the appeal of this. A big white space with some white wire shelving in it. Huh?
November 20th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
you wouldn’t get it…
November 20th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
the 7mm rod objects are quite intriguing!
November 21st, 2009 at 12:00 am
I agree with Kate. I don’t get it.
November 21st, 2009 at 1:05 am
really interesting concept.
November 21st, 2009 at 2:58 am
Hmm.. I don’t like this at all.
November 21st, 2009 at 3:33 am
I dig it too.
It is very very inspiring how original this project feels. It’s so simple! But it’s so cool.
It matches Miyake’s style as well. Great Job!
November 21st, 2009 at 8:44 am
Clever furniture
November 21st, 2009 at 10:39 am
minimal elegance!!
November 21st, 2009 at 1:18 pm
its not about the shop or designers libido but about the fashion…
November 21st, 2009 at 8:20 pm
i love Nendo, but this one doesn’t find a way into my heart or mind in most parts – still some pieces (last 2 images and the shelf) are brilliant.
November 21st, 2009 at 8:38 pm
this is really really good.
November 22nd, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Totally dig it!
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:25 pm
I get it. Its Miyake . The designer has met the brief . Kudos .
November 24th, 2009 at 9:08 am
great white wire twisted design for colored twisted clothes…
November 24th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
See this wire collection presented by Joel escalona in Maison et Objets, Paris
http://www.joelescalona.com/projects/spin.html