News of contemporary, modern retail designs including works around the world by both leading and emerging architects and designers.
14-18 February 2020
This year's London Fashion Week will be themed around 'Positive Fashion'. The city-wide activities organised by the British Fashion Council will include 78 brands, 103 stores and 346 events. London Fashion Week.
Architects 31/44 extends and refurbishes an existing 1960s light industrial building to create a boutique hotel in Redchurch Street, Shoreditch. The design is contemporary yet reflects the character of the adjacent Victorian warehouses on Club Row and the surrounding Georgian brick facades. 31/44 Architects
Aesop's store in Berlin is on Alte Schönhauser Strasse in Mitte. The store was designed by design studio Weiss-Heiten, taking inspiration from the Bauhaus movement and the industrial quality of the surroundings. Aesop was established in Melbourne in 1987 with the objective to formulate skin, hair and body care products of the finest quality combining plant based and laboratory made ingredients using only those with a proven record of safety and efficacy. Aesop
Designed for their own home and their clients, the Home Table in oak was Barber Osgerby's first project using solid wood. Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby founded their studio in 1996 and much of their work has involved folding sheet material. Isokon Plus manufacture the Home Table and was founded in the 1930s and continues create contemporary furniture and is based in Hackney Wick, London. Isokon Plus
