Takeo Kikuchi Flagship Store – Tokyo
Addicted To Retail (ATR) presents: The new Tokyo flagship store for Japanese fashion brand Takeo Kikuchi, which has been specifically designed by Schemata Architects to offer a richer experience than online shopping, with spaces for relaxation as well as display.
“Today we can easily buy clothes online, and we already have enough knowledge and experiences and know how to judge good products from bad ones in our economically maturing society. What is the role of a flagship store then?” questions Schemata‘s principal Jo Nagasaka. The architects created the new Takeo Kikuchi store within an existing three-storey building in Shibuya, where they upgraded the glazed facade that is typical of most retail buildings by adding timber-framed windows that can be opened individually to let fresh air into different spaces.
“We questioned the fact that most shops and offices are enclosed without natural ventilation throughout the year and usually heavily air-conditioned in summer and winter,” explain the architects. Inside, wooden boxes create partitions and display cases that look like packing crates, while chairs, stools and benches are dotted around between. There are no checkouts, so shop assistants wander around the store to take payment from customers, who can enter the store using four different entrance points.
Visitors can also take time out from browsing by visiting a garden at the back of the store or having a seat on one of several concrete stools along the shopfront, which the architects cast inside fabric sacks. On the first floor, glass walls offer a look into the atelier of brand designer, Takeo Kikuchi. ”We intend to create a mutual relationship between designer and customers,” explain the architects. Other details inside the store include a concrete wall that appears to be padded, a set of reclaimed Windsor chairs that have been sanded to reveal the grain of the wood and cabinets with leather door panels.
“We want to inspire customers to look at things with fresh eyes and minds by revealing ‘extraordinariness’ in ordinary things,” say the architects.
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2012-12-13 13:11:24
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