Retail
Seattle eyewear store by Best Practice Architecture is designed to “toy with perception”
Italian furniture company Arper opens a Manhattan showroom
Vitsœ to avoid Black Friday “insanity” by closing stores
Glass blocks create multi-tonal facade for antiques showroom by Jun Murata
Blackened cedar planks cover the facade of COS Toronto store
Snarkitecture uses steel sheets with garment-shaped cutaways for COS pop-up shop in LA
Rick Owens opens first Los Angeles store in 1920s ribbon factory
Bezar launches e-commerce site Storefronts to offer a “broad view of design”
Paul Crofts Studio creates Isomi showroom in former London print factory
Christian de Portzamparc and Peter Marino create garment-inspired boutique for Dior
Clothes descend from the ceiling at Schemata Architects’ Descente Blanc Tokyo store
Berlin’s Cold War memorial referenced in cross-shaped display at Seoul eyewear shop
Aranda\Lasch creates pleated concrete facade for Tom Ford flagship Miami store
Design company raises prices on Black Friday in support of craftspeople
Snarkitecture suspends 700 Air Jordan replicas in Kith’s Brooklyn store
Tom Dixon’s Manhattan showroom is his first outside London
David Adjaye’s Aïshti Foundation gallery and shopping centre nears completion in Beirut
Neri&Hu installs continuous clothing rail through Comme Moi flagship store
House of Smart drugs shop by Maurice Mentjens features maze-like wooden beams
Michaël Menuet converts French barn into a showroom of Brazilian furniture
Paulo Mendes da Rocha and Metro add pastel tones and concrete to Aesop’s São Paulo store
Box-like shelving covers walls in SoNo Arhitekti’s Book Centre Trieste shop
Floating timber slabs create layered walls within New York shoe store by Jordana Maisie