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Sneaker department at Dover Street Market by Studio Toogood
Interior stylist and designer Faye Toogood has completed an installation to display shoes for fashion brand Comme de Garcons.
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Located in the basement of Dover Street Market in London, the interior comprises stacked plaster blocks, raw concrete walls, copper pipes and lamps hanging from ropes.
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More about Studio Toogood: Utility exhibition stand for Tom Dixon.
Photographs by Leon Chew.
Here's some more information from Studio Toogood:
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SNEAKER DEPARMENT AT DOVER STREET MARKET
London’s legendary Dover Street Market has just revamped its basement by giving it a clean new look. As part of this transformation, the cutting edge fashion label Comme de Garcons asked Interior stylist and designer Studio Toogoodto design and install a new sneaker department that could sit alongside Rai Kawakubo’s personal vision.
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“I wanted to create a space that was both raw and elegant, so I chose to work with plaster, copper, concrete and rope. The idea was not to have a super glossy, highly finished look but to reveal the very nature of the materials and their inherent imperfections - or in my view - inherent beauty”, explains Faye.
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A series of stacking building blocks made from plaster were designed to help re-configure and change the way the space is used. The purity of the white plaster contrasts against the roughness of the rendered concrete walls and a series of interlocking copper pipes provided a strong industrial element to the design as well as providing plinths for the more practical purpose of displaying muli-coloured sneakers. To light the space, Faye chose bulbs on rope by Christien Meindertsma.