Iron Interior · 2024
Luffy Leathers Store
by Ali Bazzi
- A' Design Award 2024 in Interior
- CLIENT: Luffy Leathers
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 14,979
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About Luffy Leathers Store
The retail interior design project aims to offer a uniquely private shopping experience in a mall. The design showcases a fusion of elements and natural traditional materials, with a sophisticated monochromatic palette, notably a bespoke ceiling composition, curved displays meticulously crafted to reflect leather tensile characteristics, adaptable shelving units tailored to accommodate varying product displays, and embedded floor barcodes representing the digital era, complemented by mechanical product package transitions, providing a new shopping experience for visitors.
About the A' Design Award
Luffy Leathers Store is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Luffy Leathers Store is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Luffy Leathers Store is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
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- Unique Properties
- The project revolves around creating a uniquely private shopping experience, contrasting with the artificial ambiance. Its concealed interior offers a glimpse into its specialty, welcoming customers with a distinctive atmosphere. Introducing the shop to a mall setting for the first time, it features a unique ceiling blend, curved displays, adjustable shelves, and embedded floor barcodes symbolizing the digital age, reflecting the brand's craft to the store. These features enhance interactivity to the shop's distinctiveness.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The store area is 100 sqm, 4m ceiling height
The design's custom shelves, in sizes A (250mm x 200mm), B (450mm x 250mm), and C (800mm x 250mm), integrate with curved gypsum and Tadelakt walls standing at 3.85m in height. The expansive Neoterrazzo flooring, covering 100 sqm, forms an artful foundation. Embedded barcodes within the flooring emerges technology. Warm light at 3000K at the surrounding wall display and daylight at 4000K in the stretch ceiling, playing with the LED color temperature to create original and personalized environments. - Tags
- barcodes, Warm and daylight lighting, Adjustable handles with rails, Gypsum and Tadelakt walls, Stretch ceiling, Leather bags
- Production Technology
- The walls at this shop are meticulously crafted from gypsum board, expertly finished with Tadelakt material, capturing the handcrafted essence. This process imparts a tactile warmth to the space. Specialized production techniques are employed for the custom shelves, ensuring adaptability. Barcodes embedded in the flooring introduce a digital narrative. This design approach creates a touch-friendly and practical space that pays homage to the handmade feel of leather products.
- Design Challenge
- Transitioning retail shop, the project aimed to create an inviting atmosphere, strategically contrasting with the mall's ambiance. Incorporating Neoterrazzo flooring, handcrafted curved walls, and innovative shelving systems, the design blended digital and physical experiences. Overcoming challenges, it prioritized customer engagement, sustainability, and a harmonious shopping journey, to present a good targeted design.
- Research
- The concept design reflects the identity of the store, and the target market, which comes from the marketing team archive and the store location audience, to be aware of how to reflect and present the product within the needs.
Form scale and material selection depends on the variety and size of the products,
construction materials on site need to be tested where the main finish is sorted by handcraft, also the floor pouring, all finishes need to be tested to get the high-end look,
also the motorized conveyor's specifications concerning the product size and weight. - Inspiration
- Every store is Integrated with the products in a harmonious identity, which comes from the brand philosophy, where it presents itself as a handmade craft in Lebanon, bent edges smooth connections natural look materials represent the industry process that creates the lines and forms in the interior space. The brand is from an online store to a physical experience, a path of industry represented by a QR code embedded in the floor, check the path!
- Project Duration
- The project started in October 2023 in Beirut and finished in December 2023, at Centro Mall.
- Operation Flow
- The design excels through key elements like handcrafted walls, special-made shelves, and embedded barcodes. These components contribute to a superior outcome by boosting customer engagement and satisfaction. The deliberate integration of accurate lighting ensures customers perceive leather colors authentically, enhancing the overall experience. The design performs by prioritizing these key elements, creating a distinctive and memorable shopping that sets it apart in an exceptional retail experience.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Ali Dbouk, Luffy Leathers, 2024
Image #2: Photographer Ali Dbouk, Luffy Leathers, 2024
Image #3: Photographer Ali Dbouk, Luffy Leathers, 2024
Image #4: Photographer Ali Dbouk, Luffy Leathers, 2024
Image #5: Photographer Ali Dbouk, Luffy Leathers, 2024
