This interior design is for PATRICK COX, a shop selling bags, leather goods and accessories.
The shop is in a seventeen-story building in Tokyo’s fashion-centric Aoyama district. The shop itself is only a few steps inside the building’s main entrance.
The most important point of this shop seemed to be its lighting. The products can shine and can be seen more clearly if the light source is close by, not shining down from the ceiling, so I positioned each of cylindrical steel pendant fixtures directly over a corresponding display pedestal. These fixtures provide most of the lighting in the space without the lighting from the ceiling. As a result, this space gains a unique condition; being dark above and well lit below” where the tonal gradation of the wall aids in this effect.
At the same time, the pendant fixtures cut out the void and shape the space. The movement of customers in the shop seems to meander beneath a canopy formed by the largest of the drum shades.
completion : 03.2009
location : Tokyo Japan
use : shop
area : 79.00㎡

client : BLBG
constructor : ZYCC
lighting design : FDS
photographer : Toshiyuki YANO

[ awards ]
contractworld.award 2011 (Germany) New Generation Finalist
BEST STORE OF THE YEAR 18th (Japan) Excellence Award
Good Design Award 2009 (Japan) Winning
Display Industry Award 2009 (Japan) Encouragement Award
DISPLAY DESIGN AWARD 2009 (Japan) Shortlisted

[ publications ]
iw #105 (korea)
SUBLIME (Germany)
DESIGNTODAY (India)
We Ar global magazine #25 (Germany)
INTERIORS #290 (Korea)
STAGING SPACE (Germany)
Annual of Space Design in Japan 2010 (Japan)
PROYECTO CONTRACT #61 (Spain)
Good Design Award Yearbook 2009-2010 (Japan)
About Shoes #001 (Brazil)
style winter,2010 (USA)
aeroflot style Feb,2010 (Russia)
ATTITUDE #31 (Portugal)
ASCOTT LIVING Jan/Mar,2010 (Singapore)
AN #94 (Italy)
NEO2 #88 (Spain)

iw #105 (korea)
STYLISH STORES (Hong Kong)
CNPOWER (China)
FEATURE COMMERCIAL SPACE (China)
SUBLIME (Germany)
DESIGNTODAY (India)
Boutique in Fashion (China)
COMMERCIAL SPACE (China)
We Ar global magazine #25 (Germany)
di #150 (China)
INTERIORS #290 (Korea)
STAGING SPACE (Germany)
Fashion Decor (China)
COMMERCIAL SPACE (China)
Annual of Space Design in Japan 2010 (Japan)
PROYECTO CONTRACT #61 (Spain)
Good Design Award Yearbook 2009-2010 (Japan)
About Shoes #001 (Brazil)
style winter 2010 (USA)
aeroflot style February 2010 (Russia)
ATTITUDE #31 (Portugal)
ASCOTT LIVING Jan/Mar,2010 (Singapore)
AN #94 (Italy)
NEO2 #88 (Spain)
FRAME Nov/Dec 2009 (Netherlands)
hinge #171 (China)
House traders #30 (Portugal)
MARU #91 (Korea)
INTERIOR DESIGN Jul,2009 (USA)
SHOUTENKENCHIKU Jun,2009 (Japan)
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PATRICK COX
shop / 2009.03