파리 시내 오랜된 은행이 있던 빌딩 1층에 트랜디한 안경점이
새롭게 문을 연다. 고객과 건축주를 만족시키는 디자인의 완성은
고객이 바라는 현대적이며 감각적인 공간의 부흥의 기대를 만족시키는
감성적인 인테리어 디자인에 있다.
커다란 오픈 스페이스에 아파트와 같은 몇개의 룸은 웨이팅룸, 리빙룸, 키즈룸
그리고 작업및 연구실로 구성된다. 특히 작업 및 연구실은 글래스월
-고객들이 유리창 넘어로 작업공간을 살펴 볼 수 있도록 구성함으로써
자신의 안경이 제작되는 과정을 확인, 신뢰를 높인다.-의 파티션으로 구획된다.
여기 기존공간을 활용하는 인테리어 디자인은 플로어에 퍼즐 페인팅과
-다채로운 공간의 확장성- 안경을 디스플레이하는 블루 캐비넷으로 구성,
이곳을 찾는 고객들에게 집의 안락함과 패셔너블하며 트랜디한
스타일을 동시에 선사한다.
reviewed by SJ
Our challenge: turning an old bank into a modern optical store in an old but trendy neighborhood of Paris, Le Marais.
This project is the result of a great team work between the firm and our clients. We designed the interior of the optical store in the spirit of the fifties adapted to meet the contemporary expectations of the customers.
The store occupies the ground floor of an Haussmaniann building. Though the store is a large open space, its layout comprises several rooms as in an apartment: a waiting room, a living room, a kids room and the laboratory. The laboratory stands behind a glass wall, so customers can see the opticians at work on their state of the art equipment. Customers hence really feel at ease in this homy ambiance. To reinforce this layout, we painted the arch in black and used washed out yellow and blue colors on the walls.
The
glasses presentation cabinets have entirely been custom made and are
freely inspired by Piet Mondrian’s painting. While the glasses are
presented on the upper part of the cabinets with a lit up white
background, the lower closed parts of the cabinets are red, blue and
yellow parallelepipeds. Our client uses this lower part of the cabinets
to store the glasses a hand-away from the samples presented, as well as
other materials. the The shape and size of the cabinets are adapted to
the particular needs of our client. An oriented mirror has been placed
on top of each cabinet, enabling the customers to see themselves while
trying on the glasses. Under each mirror and due to their inclination,
we used
the horizontal residual space to print the details and
brands of the glasses in order to make them readable through the mirror.
On top of being useful information, this optical impression also
creates an animation.
The perspective of the store is also enhanced by the very graphic floor, which is made of 10cm by 10cm tiles in two colors - soft and dark grey- from Royal Mosa, laid out in a scaled houndstooth motif.
The furniture, from chairs to tables, couch and every accessory has been carefully chosen by our clients, who spent many days going round Paris' flee market to find genuine 50’s pieces.
The facade of the store is probably our
favorite feature. It is entirely made out of crocodile skin tiles from
Rex Ceramich (Matouche collection). I must say we have had to fight for
our choice for the facade, very edgy in a traditional neighborhood of
Paris with its Haussmanian buildings, very hard with the Paris City
Hall’s architecture department.
Last but not least, we round up
our presentation of this project by the large entrance door, made out
of plain oak and which is mounted on two pivots. It is recessed inside
the shop in order to allow its opening without disturbing the flow of
pedestrians in the street.
from archello