Pierre Yovanovitch’s colourful shop for the Villa Noailles

Hyères is better known for its fashion and photo festival bringing together the most high-profile professionals of the day, rather than the Design Parade celebrating architecture and design. In addition to exhibitions showcasing contemporary design, each year the festival invites an architect to redesign the Villa Noailles shop. For 2019, it is Pierre Yovanovitch, the former chair of the festival jury, who has designed a highly colourful space inspired by Robert Mallet-Stevens’ work and the Villa Noailles’ architecture.

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With Jéan’s nonchalant chic

Created in 2017, the With Jéan label offers romantic pieces, mixing Parisian chic with casual style inherited from its Australian roots. Fashionistas’ favourite new brand, With Jéan designs delicate pieces that are already iconic!

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An immersive and futuristic shop for Durasafe in Singapore airport

Could we dream of a better showcase than Singapore’s freshly redesigned Jewel Changi airport to host the sports equipment brand Durasafe? Created by the Ministry of Design studio, the boutique by the name of « Durasport » echoes key point no. 4 « Futuristic Metallics » – ON AIR Theme in our new SS21 Digital Design Study and offers a highly immersive futuristic decor primarily crafted in stainless steel for top-level athletes and extreme sports enthusiasts.

A futuristic decor

Futuristic decors allow designers to demonstrate great creativity and offer avant-garde, entirely out-of-the-ordinary spaces. Ministry of Design chose stainless steel as the primary material for the Durasafe store.

Whether for the shopfront, wall panels or display units, each steel element is reminiscent of the decor of a laboratory in which the state-of-the-art sports equipment sold in the store could have been designed. This design in shades of silver may evoke certain cosmic or technological worlds. It is highlighted by LED neons, mirrors and screens that plunge the visitor into a space straight out of another century.

An immersive decor

Over and above its avant-garde aesthetic, the « Durasport » store offers totally innovative and unprecedented services that allow customers to test the different sports equipment or clothing before they buy.

We therefore find an indoor climbing wall with a rotating surface, a ski simulator, latest-generation mirrors that allow you to try on clothing virtually and a swim bench to test wetsuits’ comfort and elasticity. Durasafe is adopting a three-step strategy – « excite, immerse and convince » – when it comes to customer experience, in the hope of becoming a benchmark in the retail world.

Graphene, a multi-purpose material

Mentioned previously in our article on Vollebak’s jacket, graphene is continuing to cause a stir. And for good reason. Discovered in 2004 by two researchers from the University of Manchester, André Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, and awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010, this unprecedented new material boasts a host of exceptional features.

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The Gina Tricot store mixes materials for its Stockholm branch

Gina Tricot has made a name for itself over the past few years as a benchmark in the retail world with its trendy, feminine and affordable collections. In order to best reflect its brand image, Gina Tricot – in collaboration with Note Design Studio and Open Studio – has come up with a brand new ultra-stylish boutique right at the heart of Stockholm.

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