Wooden curtain drapes around a lift inside Maison Margiela's Milan store
A tessellated wood material wraps around the lift shaft and flows over the service counter at the newly opened Maison Margiela store in Milan (+ slideshow).
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Paris fashion house Maison Margiela opened its new location at Via Sant'Andrea 5 to coincide with this year's Milan design week.
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Spilt over two floors, the 300-square-metre space is dedicated to womenswear and was designed in line with the brand's other minimal stores while incorporating references to the building's history.
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To dress the space, Italian company Wood-Skin created a flexible wooden fabric from a series of plywood triangles.
The digitally fabricated material is laid across the ground floor and over the service counter, which is also used for testing fragrances.
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Wood-Skin's tile-like material is also sculpted around the lift shaft to look like curtains that are parted in front of the doors. The material wraps around the entire column.
"Wood-Skin treats flooring as a sequence of malleable elements, covering the ground floor of Maison Margiela's new boutique and wrapping around the boutique's lift as an invitation to visit the first floor," said a statement from the fashion brand, which dropped the first name of its Belgian founder Martin Margiela from its title earlier this year.
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Upstairs is a suite dedicated to the first haute-couture range designed by Maison Margiela's new creative director John Galliano, who used the Spring Summer 2015 collection to mark his return to fashion in January.
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A selection of the pieces are displayed in glass cabinets beside the mirrored changing rooms, as well as in the shop windows downstairs.
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Throughout the store, trompe-l'oeil effects create the illusion of three-dimensional ceiling mouldings and wood panelling, and similar patterns are used on grey carpets.
Jewellery is presented in glass vitrines with mirrored bases, while a glass wall placed in front of a chandelier creates a display for sunglasses.
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A white-tiled washroom filled with plants can also be found on the upper level.
For the store's opening, Wood-Skin also created a faceted structure that bursts through the shopfront and encompasses a first-floor balcony. The installation will remain in place until 19 April.