Clap creates “new planet” inside Hong Kong style cafe Her

Stacked terracotta show plinths and celestial aluminium partitions assist create an other-worldly ambiance inside this style store-cum-cafe in Hong Kong.

Positioned on the coronary heart of main procuring district Causeway Bay, Her has been designed by Clap to “transport friends to a brand new planet”.

The shop – which additionally serves espresso, cookies and strange iced coffees to shopping clients – is the brainchild of native stylist Hilary Tsui.

“[Tsui’s] want was to create a retail house devoted to up to date girls that brings collectively her two passions in a single place: style and gastronomy,” defined the studio, who’re primarily based in Valencia, Spain.

“So we imagined Her as a sinuous panorama, with spectacular mountains and pure supplies – all collectively as a brand new house that is but to be found, like planet Mars.”

Terracotta tiles are stacked to type a sequence of blocky plinths that the studio likens to “reddish mountains”, the place equipment might be displayed or guests can sit and relaxation.

The tiles have additionally been utilized throughout the flooring and the decrease half of the shop’s exterior.

Clothes objects are hung from wavy racks which might be suspended from the ceiling. Jewelry is introduced on pale round tables supported by skinny steel stems, meant to resemble “small white lotus leaves that develop from the mountains”.

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In addition to the service counter within the cafe, a few structural columns and an arched partition have been clad in aluminium – a nod to the standard materials palette of spacecraft.

Arch shapes are repeated within the curtained doorways that result in the shop’s altering rooms, and within the large home windows that puncture the entrance facade.

Including to the house theme, a handful of portholes – akin to these seen on a rocket – have been cut-out of the peripheral partitions, coated with orange-coloured glass. Purchases by clients are additionally vacuum-packed very like an astronaut’s meals.

This is not the one retail house that Clap has designed – final yr the studio accomplished a youngsters’s shoe store in Valencia, which options playful arched doorways and primary-coloured furnishings.

A few different initiatives additionally boast loosely space-themed interiors: metallic paint, perforated steel and black rubber to present a futuristic really feel to Voyager Espresso espresso bar in New York, whereas Guapa Flower Store in Russia options an illuminated ceiling impressed by Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A House Odyssey.