Design company Aruliden has created a retail house for trend model Jonathan Simkhai in New York Metropolis, translating cut-out shapes from its clothes into architectural partitions and furnishings.
For New York-based womenswear model Jonathan Simkhai, Aruliden designed a brief set up throughout the house on Mercer Road in SoHo – a chief purchasing space in Decrease Manhattan.
The geometric shapes and signature cut-outs of the model’s clothes have been translated into quite a lot of spatial interventions and furnishings items, making a retailer wherein the model can current new collections and host occasions.
“Translating Simkhai’s identification right into a imaginative and prescient for a spatial setting required a transparent and strategic concept that was not simply shoppable, but in addition memorable and visually iconic,” mentioned Aruliden’s senior director of commercial design Erik Kreider.
“We wished guests to be totally immersed on this world, however on the finish of the day it was additionally necessary that we celebrated and showcased the merchandise the suitable method.”
In the direction of the entrance of the constructing, a double-height house is painted completely white and additional brightened by the glass facade.
This lengthy, slim room is split by a sequence of tall constructions, comprising translucent cloth stretched over steel frames.
Fitted round present architectural components, the non permanent partitions wrapped in white, peach and pink cloth are punctured with archways that curve asymmetrically on the high, forming a passage from one finish of the shop to the opposite.
Consumers are led by the archways and down a flight of stairs, flanked by mannequins positioned on bigger steps alongside one aspect.
On the decrease degree, the place the ceiling top is significantly decrease, podiums for displaying merchandise and ornamental equipment are formed equally to the archway cut-outs.
At varied sizes and heights, these beige-toned models kind a versatile show system that may be moved round when wanted.
“Clothes and merchandise break the cadence of the material arches,” mentioned Kreider.
“Along with the graphic cutouts, this creates a pure movement to the again space the place extra merchandise, seating and altering rooms are positioned,
All through the shop, clothes are offered on equivalent units of hangers alongside minimal white rails.
The minimalist inside can also be enlivened by easy floral shows, offered in quite a lot of crafted vases.
Aruliden, which was based in 2006 by Rinat Aruh and Johan Liden, is headquartered in New York Metropolis with places of work in San Francisco and Amsterdam.
The company has a number of merchandise shortlisted for this 12 months’s Dezeen Awards, together with the Whoop 4.0 health wearable and the Collection One Desk 27 video-conferencing machine. It has additionally designed a sequence of mirrored constructions to be in-built a forest in Ontario, Canada.
The pictures is by Sharon Radisch.
