A hand-painted tile mural covers the entrance of this Miami Design District boutique designed by New York studio Sugarhouse Design and Structure for trend model Cult Gaia.
Sugarhouse Design and Structure designers Jess and Jonathan Nahon adopted up their New York Metropolis retailer for Cult Gaia founder Jasmin Larian Hekmat with a flagship in Miami supposed to align with the model and the placement.
The duo “sought inspiration from temple structure, Larian Hekmat’s Persian heritage and iconic historic archetypes” for the 1,502-square-foot (140-square-metre) retail area, and likewise modelled the constructing on native casitas.
To cowl the gabled entrance facade, Design and Structure commissioned artist Michael Chandler to create a mural utilizing ceramic tiles.
The ensuing 1,800-piece Tree of Life mural relies on French post-impressionist artist Henri Rousseau’s portray The Dream.
“The hand-painted ceramic mural depicts a silhouetted tree with its branches extending throughout the storefront, that includes stylised vegetation, birds and flower-crowned nymphs,” mentioned Sugarhouse Design and Structure.
Painted in blue “lapis lazuli” hues, related to those who embellish Persian mosques, the paintings references every thing from Indian textiles to botanical illustrations.
A trio of arched openings within the facade comprise home windows and a bigger, recessed entryway that holds wood-framed glass doorways and aligns with the shop’s central axis.
The primary in a collection of interiors areas is an open room embellished in creamy Bianco Avorio limestone and Bianco Santa Caterina travertine.
Unlacquered brass rods, designed to imitate Cult Gaia’s jewelry, drop from behind ceiling coves to show clothes and customized amorphous mirrors by New Vernacular Studio grasp on the partitions.
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On each side of the central axis, sandstone blocks are stacked into vertical checkerboard grids that enables equipment to be displayed within the gaps.
These partitions enclose the becoming rooms, which could be illuminated from inside in order that mild glows by means of a translucent membrane and the grid holes.
“Designed to reference rock-cut cave temples, the buildings present privateness whereas additionally permitting merchandise to be displayed inside their illuminated niches,” mentioned the group.
A second area an identical to the primary is reached previous the edge created by the becoming rooms, and a bar is hidden past a brass door on the far wall.
Over every of the 2 primary rooms presides a domed ceiling and a seven-foot-wide oculus, based mostly on the roof of the Pantheon in Rome.
Under the primary is a 12-foot-tall concrete sculpture of the Greek goddess Gaia – after whom the model is called – by Larian Hekmat’s mom, artist Angela Larian.
“An elongated, Giacometti-like feminine nude that soars towards the heavens, the work is a foil to the nymphs from the facade and her angularity is intentional: just like the model, this can be a absolutely composed, assured, and in management Gaia,” mentioned the group.
Within the second room, a big banyan tree paying homage to the facade ornament is planted inside a serpentine couch designed by Brandi Howe.
“Just like the sacred tree from Buddhism, it invitations guests to sit down and obtain their very own awakening inside this temple of trend,” the group added.
Miami Design District is residence to a bunch of luxurious trend manufacturers, which have every taken a singular strategy to designing their shops each inside and outside.
Brazilian model PatBo not too long ago opened a flagship within the neighbourhood with a pink slatted facade by BoND, whereas Kengo Kuma and Associates is ready to create a sculptural block of buildings close by that will even function retail places.
The pictures is by Kris Tamburello.
