As a highly developed consumer market, Taiwan has its fair share of high-end boutiques where style-savvy dwellers can splurge, even far outside the sprawling capital city Taipei. The ISSEY MIYAKE brand is well-represented in the country, operating a large number of standalone stores for many of its coveted lines. In Kaohsiung, one of the biggest …
The interior design of an Eyewear Store located in Ashiya, Hyogo, Ashiya Optical Store.
The meteoric rise of India as an economic powerhouse this past decade comes with an increasingly sophisticated and expanding consumer market and talent pool, and it’s a combo which is slowly changing the country’s leading cities on many levels, including retail and shopping. After graduating from NIFT in Delhi and Milan‘s Istituto Marangoni, Indian designer …
If eyewear in the past was consumed primarily for vision correction, today it has come to be recognized as a small fashion item that expresses one’s identity, shifting the direction of the eyewear market as a whole. Following Suwon, the second location—STREAM EYEWEAR Unjeong—breaks away from the conventional image of an “optical shop,” redefines STREAM’s …
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Old buildings always carry traces of time. Rather than erasing them, P·P·Bakery begins by accepting these traces as its premise. The project focuses on deciding what to add on top of what already exists—its structure, materials, and accumulated layers of use.
“Like water through a river” — a phrase used by SIGMA founder Michihiro Yamaki — describes the Aizu factory’s camera and lens production: continuous, precise, and tightly connected, like flowing water. Restraint and prudence come from logical thinking, while warmth reflects intention carried through time. ONOAA STUDIO sought to translate this spirit into a space …
It’s indicative of Japan remaining one of the planet’s leading luxury markets—we’re talking the recent inauguration of yet another Casa LOEWE in Tokyo. Following the opening of Casa LOEWE on swanky Omotesando dori little over two years ago, LOEWE has shifted its focus to Ginza, the other high-end shopping grounds in the sprawling Japanese capital, …
Teshima Factory is a project that revitalised a former ironworks located in front of Ieura Port in Teshima Island as a cafeteria and food factory.
The newly opened “Home of Götti” showroom celebrates the Götti Perspective eyewear collection – a place between gallery and concept store. As part of the Götti Brand Store in Lucerne, a world has been created in the historic premises that provide insight into the manufacture of rimless eyewear and showcases the world’s largest selection of …
At long last, Melbourne-based tech performance wear brand MAAP has landed in Sydney. Following a string of store openings across the planet, MAAP LaB Sydney has opened its doors in the city’s leafy Darlinghurst neighbourhood. Occupying 243 sqm. (2,616 sq.ft.) on the ground floor of a redeveloped brick building erected in 1911 by architect Frederick …
