Oskar Kohnen Studio provides pastel cabinetry to Lunettes Choice retailer

Prospects can peek inside cupboard drawers to see the glasses on provide inside this mint-green eyewear retailer in Berlin, which has been designed by Oskar Kohnen Studio.

Situated only a brief stroll from main Berlin procuring road Kurfürstendamm, Lunettes Choice’s pastel interiors are dressed with a handful of decor items that subtly nod to the previous.

“Lunettes Choice Charlottenburg capabilities as an essay on classic West Berlin retail areas by a up to date lens, and attracts extensively on the native space’s heritage and historical past,” defined Oskar Kohnen, whose eponymous studio designed the shop.

That is the eyewear model’s third retail area within the German capital, becoming a member of branches within the metropolis’s Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg neighbourhoods.

The 2-level retailer, which was previously a fast-food restaurant, has been utterly stripped again to function a floor-to-ceiling mint-green cupboard, assembled out of disused software cabinets from the 1960s.

Completely different glasses fashions are offered inside every of the unit’s 375 pull-out drawers as a substitute of on typical show plinths, a transfer the model hopes will “invite discovery” amongst prospects.

“The big-scale, modular repeat of the drawers together with the unifying color give it a sculptural high quality, punctuating the shop’s white dice of a entrance room,” defined Kohen.

Unattractive vinyl flooring from the shop’s earlier fit-out has additionally been ripped as much as reveal pale gray slabs of marble that had been initially laid within the 1970s.

“[The floor’s] muted complexity additionally works in concord with the decreased architectural look of the area,” added Kohen.

Two metal-frame chairs with sloping brown-leather seats have been used to decorate the remainder of the bottom ground, together with a 1980s desk by Dutch designer Hank Kwint which has a mottled-glass floor counter.

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Above hangs a up to date lighting fixture comprised of glass tubes which are bunched collectively by metal rings.

A doorway then leads by to an optometry room centred by a pistachio-coloured chair, the place prospects can get their eyesight examined. Extra glasses may be discovered down on the retailer’s basement stage, accessed through a staircase with a mint-green balustrade.

Different placing glasses retailers embrace London’s Ace & Tate, which contains a “voyeuristic” pair of neon eyes that stare out at prospects and Seattle’s Eye Eye, which is centred by a bright-blue enclosure that is formed like a home.