shop concepts

Reusable pop-up store

PANGAIA showcases high-tech naturalism at The Selfridges Corner Shop

In spring of this year PANGAIA offered its customers an extraordinary shopping experience. For the first time, customers were able to visit the PANGAIA pop-up store in The Selfridges Corner Shop, which was designed to literally guide them through ...

SWIX concept retail store in historic Lake Placid

Shopping for winter sports enthusiasts at Winter Olympic Games town

SWIX announced that this holiday season the brand is launching its first U.S. retail outlet, its Concept Store, at the Mt. Van Hoevenberg Ski Stadium in Lake Placid, N.Y. The story features a modern layout and design and will highlight products from ...

The Rolling Stones open ‘world exclusive’ flagship store in London

Iconic band imagery in store design

The rock ‘n’ roll legends that are the Rolling Stones opened their world-first flagship store, ‘RS No. 9 Carnaby’ on 9th September at 9 Carnaby Street in London’s Soho. The new store, created in partnership with ...

Store design concept: “A bouquet for Shibuya”

Frame Awards 2020 – Wellness inside and outside of the body

L’OCCITANE Bouquet de Provence is a renovation project of their flagship store located at Shibuya Crossing, one of the busiest places in Tokyo. For their first-ever collaboration with Pierre Hermé in Japan, the store was transformed ...

Clear views into the manufacturing workshop

Showroom Papier Tigre in Paris

Papier Tigre, a contemporary stationery brand, is rehabilitating its showroom on rue des Filles du Calvaire in the Marais, in the heart of Paris. It brings together a sales area, a space dedicated to custom products and the workshop in the back.The ...

What shop design can look like: the Blaw men concept store in Barcelona

The retail shopping experience for men

Yes, men do like to shop! A visit to an outlet of the Spanish BlawStore chain in Barcelona’s neighborhood of La Ribera can attest to this. This is where modern minimalism meets rustic chic and where selected products are showcased in a ...

Weekend unlimited concept store to open in California

Retail store will include weekend live lounge & event space

Weekend Unlimited Inc. announces that it has secured a retail location in Long Beach, California to launch the company's first US concept store."It is essential to our growth plan that we establish multiple touch points for our offerings ...

Lone Kauri Road Ltd. has new e-commerce site

Offering high performance, sustainable outdoor products

New Zealand-based company, Lone Kauri Road Ltd. recently announced the official launch of its first ecommerce site. Lonekauri.com was created to provide outdoor enthusiasts with premium quality products that minimise environmental impact by ...

24-hour shopping with Wanzl

EuroCis 2019

Is 24/7 shopping only possible online? Wanzl’s answer is loud and clear: absolutely not! The innovation leader’s unique 24-hour store concept fulfils a long-cherished dream of bricks-and-mortar retailers. Design, hardware and software; ...

Pop-Up retail now worth £2.3 billion to UK economy

Despite this growth, technology continues to hold the sector back

Pop-up retail is now worth £2.3 billion to the UK economy according to Britain’s Pop-Up Retail Economy, the second annual report into the pop-up sector from Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr). The report, ...

Castello launches UK's first cheese concept store

Fresh from New York, The Hague and Copenhagen, speciality cheese brand Castello's first UK concept store was launched by foodie 'gastronaut', Stefan Gates on Commercial Street, Shoreditch. With over 30 different varieties of cheese ...

Bikini Berlin: "The boxes are a unique modular system"

Interview with architect Dionys Ottl from "Hild und K"

  Shopping, working, watching movies and watching the Berlin monkeys groom each other: Bikini Berlin has many different facets. The former “Bikinihaus“ (Bikini House) from 1955 was recently remodeled into the world’s ...

"Store design is outdated after five or six years"

Interview with Christoph Lay, architect and interior architect

Within every consumer is primarily a human being: when architect Christoph Lay talks about his ideas for store design and concepts, you quickly realize that a store doesn’t just have to visually need to keep up with the times, but that a ...

Germany's first Concept Mall

Photo Gallery: The architecture of the shopping mall "Bikini Berlin"

With the "Center at the Zoo" and the associated "Bikini House", the architects Paul Schwebes and Hans Schoszberger in 1955 have created a tidy, transparent ensemble. The building complex stood for economic progress and was a ...

First Luxury Shopping Mall to Open in Baku

Set to satisfy growing consumer desire for luxury brands in the Caucasus region

Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, is set to become the next global market opportunity for luxury brands with the launch of an exclusive new shopping mall in the city promising to attract discerning consumers from across the Caucasus region. Located ...

The Customer Prefers Comfort

Convenience is More Important than Price

To keep up with the ever more powerful competition from online retailers, brick-and-mortar stores have to turn shopping into an adventure for the customer again – this is the mantra that storeowners as well as shopfitters are currently ...

It should be fresh and ready

Convenience shops in tune with the times

Sandwich in hand and coffee to go: today’s customer likes things quick and easy. Aside from the need for healthy convenience products, consumers also want an adventure when they shop for groceries. In our interview, Angela Krause from the ...

Providing Consumers a Unique Mobile Shopping Experience

Samsung Experience Shops in 1,400 Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores

Samsung Electronics has announced a unique relationship with Best Buy, the world’s largest consumer electronics retailer, centered on retail innovation for customers to explore, purchase, activate and service the broadest portfolio of Samsung ...

Elegant wood, warm colors and cool steel

Presentation of the 6th EuroShop RetailDesign Award

EHI and Messe Düsseldorf presented the sixth EuroShop RetailDesign Award for the stores with the most successful concepts.The ceremony took place in New York City at the 42. International Store Design Awards Gala of the Retail Design ...

Reinventing and Reimagining

Retailers successfully changing the shopping experience

It’s a hot topic of discussion in retail C-suites: With e-commerce carving out an ever-growing slice of the sales pie, how can retailers ensure that shoppers’ bricks-and-mortar experience is productive, personalized, convenient — ...

In-store shops are making a comeback

Bloomingdale's and JCPenney revive the trend

Back in the 1980s and ’90s, Bloomingdale’s in New York had a Ralph Lauren shop and a Donna Karan shop. That old notion - of a store within a store - has been made new again, with JCPenney the most prominent example. In July, it unveiled ...

Virgin Acquires ultimate in-store experience

Eight different new digital signage applications in newly transformed store

Virgin Media has opened an innovative store with interactive digital signage at its forefront. The unique store located in London’s Westfield Shopping Centre has been transformed into a cosy home away from home designed to encourage customers ...

Design

Conceptual design in the retail environment influences the end customer’s purchase decisions.

Conceptual design in the retail environment influences the customer's decision to purchase. Conditions in the retail world are subject to constant changes in an ever expanding marketplace. Strategic Design is a vital factor in staying ahead of the ...

MODULAR News by concept-s

You would like to refresh you shop without rebuilding it completely? Well, the team of concept-s has the optimum solution: take a wall, fresh colour and combine acrylic panels for spectacles with glass shelf made of frosted glass. The white acrylic ...

Moto 88 store roll out

Bartuf Solutions was involved in the design, manufacture and installation of display equipment into 88 MOTO Retail locations MOTO’s wanted to convert and re-brand their service area stores to the WHSmith brand A group of 4 teams of 3 ...

Optician / BNGraphics, BNConcept, BNInterior, BNArchitecture & BNPlanning

Profil Optik Brøbecher; unique shop in Aarhus in a nationwide chain of opticians in Denmark A project which includes all five of Brugger & Nielsen's departments: Graphics, Concept, Interior, Architecture and Planning. Development of ...

TDC Communications

Concept development for a leading communications company; adapting of design for all shops across Denmark. The concept is based on bringing the customers closer to the products and the staff closer to the customers. Most recent addition is a brand ...

RETAIL HORIZONS

Vision from Store to Enterprise

Retailers wishing to thrive in the face of global competition need to develop growth strategies, increase productivity and differentiate themselves from the competition. Innovative IT solutions serve as a powerful driver in the realization of these ...