Designer Rafael Prieto has lined tableware retailer in New York Metropolis with wallpaper constructed from images taken within the south of France and vintage furnishings.
Positioned at 181 Lafayette Road in SoHo, the Gohar World retailer showcases tableware merchandise designed by sisters Laila and Nadia Gohar.
“Gohar World is a tableware universe that embraces custom, time, craft, and humour,” mentioned the duo, who based their model in 2020.
The house was designed by Rafael Prieto, founder and artistic director of Savvy Studio, to seize the various cultures and crafts concerned in making the tableware.
“As a result of Laila and Nadia work with ateliers all around the world, from Egypt to Italy, Gohar World is inherently a model that transports you to totally different locations,” mentioned Prieto. “Generally, even to your grandmother’s lounge.”
“So my concept when designing the shop was to move guests to a different world,” he added.
Utilizing images he took within the south of France, the designer created a customized layered wallpaper with Wallpaper Tasks to cowl the partitions.
The imagery of crumbling and weathered stonework blended with scenes from fields and woodland lends an otherworldly ambiance to the shop.
“The outer layer reveals monumental stone archways that are torn away to disclose a secret backyard, representing Laila and Nadia’s secret Gohar World, which everyone seems to be now invited to step into,” mentioned the model.
An eclectic mixture of vintage home furnishings items provides to the surreality of the house, with material ruffles surrounding desk bases, and sections of Grecian-style columns supporting surfaces and performing as pedestals.
Among the Gohar World tableware is introduced in open cupboards or glass vitrines, whereas different items are laid out as desk settings as if prepared for dinner.
The storefront is painted a heat cream color, and white material is hung within the decrease halves of the home windows and glass doorways.
Laila is understood for her artistic meals installations and tasks that mix design, meals and artwork, which she catalogues by way of her Instagram account Lailacooks.
Partnering with Nadia to maneuver into homeware design, the purpose is to work with international artisans to assist protect “dying and disappearing” crafts, she informed Dezeen in a current interview.
Lately, a number of manufacturers have opted for a extra surreal, eclectic aesthetic for his or her shops in comparison with the cohesive, monochrome method that is pervaded retail design over the previous few years.
The Awake NY retailer by Rafael de Cárdenas, the Boyy flagship in Milan by Thomas Poulsen and the Tons boutique in Pittsburgh by NWDS are all examples of this.
The pictures is by Clement Pascal.
