Theory opens layered flagship store on Regent Street – Retail Focus

Architecture studio Sybarite have made a retail principle for the new Idea flagship retail outlet positioned on 101-113 Regent Avenue. This will be aspect of a ‘connected retail space’ with Uniqlo, also owned by Speedy Retailing. It is the to start with time the two vogue manufacturers have occupied a retail place in the exact same location in the Uk and Europe.

Sybarite distilled the essence of Concept into a cohesive style language centred close to timelessness, design, stability, and openness. The retail store is intended as a voluptuously sculpted and curvaceous space where there are purposefully no tricky edges. As these, the store is navigated as a result of a sequence of shoppable levels that are continuously uncovered as the shopper moves all over the atmosphere.

Simon Mitchell, co-founder of Sybarite commented: “Doing work with Quickly Retailing on the Theory store in Regent Road was about making connectivity for this progressive manufacturer. Their main values of timelessness, balance and openness educated our style and design and the procedure about it and had been intrinsic to the canvas we created. Regent Road is an inviting and cohesive backdrop navigated in an organic round movement via sustainable, muted and textured tone and materiality”.

The content palette is made up of a layering impact of textures which provide tactility, variation and warmth in a refined and classic way. Hand-crafted plaster is found alongside pure resources of cork, timber, limestone, and gentle and enveloping touches of velvet. Blackened bronze, lucite and smooth stone kind the bespoke relatives of fixtures and exhibit a fragile equilibrium among light-weight and solidity. A neutral colourway has been chosen in shades of camel and beige, which crescendos in a tranquil pistachio for the fitting space space.

Tender curves forming many round areas with the underlying principle of bringing purchasers into the centre to completely immerse them selves in the expertise. The form of each circle is delineated by inset cork underfoot and can be remodeled with moveable fixtures and fittings to communicate with ease how to store the appear.

Stone plinths at the base of rail displays finish the tale with footwear and equipment. There is the opportunity to showcase two seems to be at each individual stop of these giving the optionality that quite considerably defines the Principle ethos. Seamless kind and changeover exist amongst the plaster of the partitions and the ceilings. The ceilings have slash-out spheres with inset Barrisol lights immediately earlier mentioned each individual of the rounded ‘cork’ merchandising zones to subliminally spotlight them as focal factors and to create occasions of pause inside the journey.

Display screen tables of timber, acrylic and stucco are tiered at differing heights to give a changeable and naturalistic backdrop. Home furniture exists in modules and have been developed exclusively for the store from the seating to the fixtures like mirrors, rails, plinths, shelves, hooks and column displays for shoes and equipment. Bringing nature into the interior was of paramount relevance and potted green crops will be showcased all over.

Specified that the web-site ought to efficiently communicate dualism in Idea and how it sits in the greater footprint of the Uniqlo internet site, it was important to look at clear and open up sightlines from one particular stop to an additional as perfectly as the multiple entry factors and massive home windows. The middle of the shop is shoppable from the two sides and thus purposefully approachable. A punctuation in between each models and their unique identities and offerings is reiterated subtly but decisively as a result of a shift in materiality.

Kazumi Yanai, World wide Chairman of Idea and Chairman of UNIQLO United states of america, mentioned: “Establishing our manufacturer existence in Europe is critical for our world-wide organization system, which by now involves a solid presence in The united states, Japan, China, and Korea. This new flagship store on Regent Road cements our commitment to this portion of the earth. We are energized to give men and women of all ages in this sector our impeccably crafted wardrobe necessities.”