Design studio Tutto Bene seemed to surrealist artworks and Italian modernist exhibition design when creating the inside for this eyewear retailer in Islington, north London.
Set within the Angel space, the 60-square-metre retailer belongs to eyewear model Cubitts and options an inside idea conceived by Tutto Bene primarily based on the structure of the house itself.
“It is a lengthy, slim room with an atelier environment because of the robust contrasts of sunshine and shadow,” the studio’s co-founder Oskar Kohnen advised Dezeen.
“The atelier feeling instantly evoked a way of being at an artist’s loft, this sense of residential parts combined with workshop-like rawness is what we wished to embrace.”
To underline this sense, the studio added ornamental items that nod to totally different artwork actions all through the house.
“The person parts of the shop design reference surrealist artworks and Italian modernist exhibition design from the Forties and 50s by means of play on perspective, rational spatial composition and painterly use of color,” Kohnen mentioned.
A skylight lets loads of mild into the Cubitts store, which Tutto Bene mirrored by way of glass particulars positioned inside the shop.
“We did not need to over-complicate the dynamic of the house,” the studio’s co-founder Felizia Berchtold advised Dezeen.
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“As a substitute we positioned monolithic parts inside it that provide factors of curiosity and grounding,” she added.
“Every factor speaks a transparent materials language. There are hues of greens and yellow, the transparency of the nile glass, in addition to areas of black that stability the house’s abundance of pure mild.”
The slim, rectangular retailer options glass cabinets set in opposition to a backdrop of sage-green silk from material home Holland & Sherry alongside all the right-hand wall, in one other reference to artwork and artworks.
“The lengthy shelf stretching all the size of the house represents an artist’s easel, in addition to exhibition tableaus,” Berchtold defined.
“The pure slubs and delightful color variation that the silk brings present a reverent backdrop for the frames displayed on it, while being a quiet paintings in itself.”
Alongside the left-hand aspect, Tutto Bene positioned black storage and show volumes, in addition to Cubitts’ eye-examination room.
Kohnen and Berchtold designed most of the furnishings items personally for the inside, amongst them an undulating orange seat.
“Most parts are bespoke items we designed, together with the Uovo chaise,” Berchtold mentioned.
“Then there’s some classic treasures such because the Sixties glass and chrome chandelier and a gaggle of FontanaArte prism-like items that complement and contextualise our fixture designs, in addition to photographic works by Lee Miller, casting the shop by means of her surrealist lens.”
Tutto Bene has beforehand designed the inside of Cubitts’ first New York retailer in addition to the steel-and-mirror Nightingale restaurant in London’s Mayfair.
