Design / Small Business
Shelf esteem
Take two retail visionaries, one Tokyo store space and one great idea, and you’ve got the Good Design Shop, a concept store made to change the way people consume.
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Section D, episode 4
Focusing on how Japanese designers are coping after the Tsunami and we go on a shopping spree for Japanese goods in Sydney, London and LA.
Edits / Neighbourhood Business
Royal society
This month in our series on independent retail strips we shop for rare Nordic design, good coffee, well-loved books and violins on Thereses gate.
Design / Interior design
Monocolumn
Saturday 31 October
On cloud nine
Another day, another furniture fair. Only this time it’s Tokyo design week – and it’s impressive.
Edits / Retail
Monocolumn
Sunday 5 September
Objets of desire
Fauchon snack shops alongside a Mariage Frères restaurant kitted out with Inga Sempé table lamps and waiters in white bow-tie uniforms – this isn’t the food offering of an upmarket retail emporium but the newly inaugurated…
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 11 May
Weekend agenda, 12/13 May
This weekend’s highlights include a new hotel in sunny Mykonos, a craft fair at London’s Saatchi gallery and a Montreal-inspired deli in New York.
Business / Innovation
Monocolumn
Sunday 23 May
The brilliance of the flagship store
It’s the fashion world that created the concept of the flagship store, spaces where brands can showcase their ideas in purist perfection.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 11 May
Weekend agenda, 12/13 May
This weekend’s highlights include a new hotel in sunny Mykonos, a craft fair at London’s Saatchi gallery and a Montreal-inspired deli in New York.
Business / Retail
Monocolumn
Monday 1 April
Don't be all talk
So you've put money and effort into creating your brand image and telling your story. Now you need to live up to the hype.
Business / Retail
Monocolumn
Thursday 25 November
The Chinese quest for luxury brands
It’s no secret that wealthy Chinese are addicted to luxury brand shopping.
Design / Graphic Design
Monocolumn
Thursday 15 March
Can luxury and Modernism mix?
About one year ago we moved office, from north to south Marylebone, and by a distance of under one mile.
Affairs / Technology
Monocolumn
Wednesday 15 February
Unexpected item in bagging area
A design hotel in Davos recently claimed to have the world’s first fully automated check in, seemingly with some pride.
Business / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Friday 1 January
2010: Using their noodle
If the increase in young-chef driven “boutique” ramen stores around Tokyo is any indication, 2010 is going to be a good year for ramen noodles.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 5 October
Weekend agenda, 6/7 October
This weekend check out some photography in Istanbul, attend the New Yorker festival in the Big Apple, and enjoy the new album by Swedish pop singer Taken By Trees.
Business / Retail
Monocolumn
Thursday 3 September
How the high street was conquered
It’s not only the Japanese (see Thursday’s Monocolumn on Uniqlo) that have a retail model that’s fit for these straightened times.
Business / Industry
Monocolumn
Tuesday 12 March
Tablets take note
The added sense of identity in a paper notebook is something tablet technology may never be able to replicate.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 3 August
Weekend agenda 4/5 August
If you want to diversify during the Olympic themed days ahead, below are our picks of what to do, see and listen to if in London this weekend.
Affairs / Fashion
Monocolumn
Wednesday 9 March
Here come the gals
Japanese “gyaru” (gal) fashion works to a different set of rules.
Design / Business Hubs
Power of three
When you think of a design city, Copenhagen (hosting studios for Nokia and Samsung) or Barcelona (home to a number of design studios) might spring to mind. But we predict three lesser-known metropolises set to become design…