Gold palm bushes adorn the monochromatic inside of Darial idea retailer in Barcelona
Towering gold pillars formed like palm bushes, ivory carpets and black lacquer screens fill this dramatic idea retailer in Barcelona, which has been designed by haute couturier Djaba Diassamidze.
Known as Darial, the 1,500-square-metre life-style retailer takes over the bottom flooring and basement of Casa Tomàs Roger, a 19th-century constructing within the metropolis’s Dreta de l’Eixample neighbourhood.
Conceived and based by the Paris-based haute couturier Djaba Diassamidze, the minimalist retailer is described as an “experiential” retail area.
It sells an evolving collection of clothes, books, artwork, furnishings and design objects by lots of of various manufacturers, and likewise boasts a brasserie-style restaurant and occasion area.
The shop, together with the restaurant and the bookshop, is unfold throughout the bottom flooring.
It is divided right into a collection of lofty white areas dotted with palm tree-shaped gold pillars, their fronds unfurling throughout the ceilings. Partitions have in any other case been largely omitted, permitting the areas to move seamlessly into each other.
Ivory-coloured carpets and marble tiles are used on the flooring to create a pointy distinction with opulent black furnishings that decoratte the area, together with items by Muller van Severen, Unattainable Mission, Lomography and Bang & Olufsen.
Merchandise is displayed like artwork on smooth black-lacquer shelving that was customized for the shop.
Sure options within the retailer, just like the grandiose arched doorways, are Diassamidze’s try and reference art-deco-style decor. The folding screens are additionally meant to nod to the shop’s identify, Darial, which suggests gate in outdated Persian.
Terracotta tiles create cabinets in Kengo Kuma-designed Camper retailer in Barcelona
Traditional 1963 movie The Leopard impressed the aesthetic of the 70-seat restaurant, which options gold-leaf ceilings and seating banquettes upholstered in purple velvet.
A carpet-lined staircase leads right down to the gallery on the lower-ground flooring, which appears out onto a courtyard.
At this stage, there may be additionally a “cloister-like” area with concrete flooring and vaulted openings which is used to host short-term exhibitions and collaborations with modern artists.
Barcelona is residence to a bunch of design-focused retail areas – January of this yr noticed the opening of a Camper department alongside the town’s well-known Passeig de Gracià. The footwear retailer is roofed in concave terracotta tiles, which function show cabinets for the assorted shoe kinds on supply.