Category: store layout
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Sweet Sounds for UrbanEars: Colour in a World of White Noise
A simple store speaking louder than words makes the action of listening a pleasure and an experience. UrbanEars is a concept in listening from Scandinavia, an ergonomic and aesthetic sound sensation for all the world to enjoy. The concept is based around colour , sound quality and the pleasure of wearing headphone in the…
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Insuring Success: Selling in Any Event
At the risk of being boring…. John Lewis outstanding performance never misses a trick to tempt and attract customers into spending in the UK’s favourite emporium. Once criticised for being static and staid, the retailer has built onto its enviable reputation for reliability and trust a new role as multi-channel leaders and a destination…
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Hidden Benefit: Beauty on a Different Level
Something beautiful happened on the way to Carnaby Street. Benefits abound in this destination cosmetic store which hides its beauty bushel beneath the streets of London. The inviting staircase leads to the hidden delights of the basement bars. From brows to nails, from body waxing and spray tanning to blow drying and champagne sipping…
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Deichmann Shoe Machine: Running like Brickwork
Saving soles in a sea of shoeboxes, value footwear retailer Deichmann has arrived at a smart solution making self-service shoe buying both visually calming and commercially successful. Boxing clever and boxing bold Deichmann works with its suppliers, brands and manufacturers to a colour palette that allows a brickwall of boxes to segment the assortment.…
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Fossil Fuelled: Timed for Evolution
Time stands still for no retailer, and Fossil takes it upon itself to look to the future with an evolutionary new store concept which draws on the strength of its heritage whilst looking decisively to the future. The focal wall is a picture perfect example of this, setting a showcase HD video screen against…
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Hello Beautiful: Selfridges Showcases its Inner Beauty
With a now customary late Spring in its Step, Selfridges strides relentlessly onwards in its role as retail event destination in London. In a sequence of mega shows in a traditionally calm calendar month the premium department store has re-created everything from Carnival Brazil to Las Vegas Ostensicity and the celebrated BodyCraze voyerism that…
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Sports Brands: Go Direct to Oxford Street
Sweet music for sports brand fans in the site of the old HMV on Oxford Street as Sports Direct opens its new flagship store. The discount sports brand retailer has big stores already but this three floor testament to sporting testosterone celebrates every activity from fitness and training, through to trecking and fishing with…
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Stand & Stare: Pull & Bear Take to the Road
The anti-corporate momentum builds… as recognised brands balance the safety of recognition and loyalty with the excitement of individual assortments, personal enhancements and store environments that look like they come off the back of a lorry rather than the end of the corporate conveyer belt. Pull & Bear, from the biggest brand house about,…
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“His Magista is in Town” A Beast of a Boot: Nike Pinterest Gallery
A beast awaits for the unwitting soccer star too big for his boots. In Nike Town there’s only one hero in a store that celebrates many, waiting to catch any passing would-be superstars tempted in by the promise of miraculous skills, fabulous footwork and a future in the fantasy world of football footwear. The…
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Selfridges Denim Devolution: Browse the Pinterest Gallery
Destination denim stretched its legs and stepped out as the World’s largest dedicated denim studio. No idle fascination this 2500 square metres throws a curved ball at the conventions of category collections with Selfridges claiming jeans from £11 to £11,000 in a range of over 11,000 pieces. Denim journeys unfold past acrobatic mannequins and parades…
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