These are not your basic old stores, they are pieces of art that you must check out!
We live in an e-commerce friendly world, where just a click can get delivered our favourite things to our door steps. And, with the boom in online shopping, the physical retail stores now need to deliver more than just goods. They need to give the shoppers an experience which is more interesting than hitting the purchase button on the laptop! So, with in-house cafes, galleries, curated fashion collections and interesting themes, the retail shops are getting concepts-based to lure the customers in. Concept stores are not your basic department stores with the same old goods and cashier counters but much more than that! They are beautifully designed ‘mastershops’ which are appealing and of course showcase Insta-worthy personality. Offering a more immersive and unique shopping experience, concept stores are hitting all the right spots making shopping fun again. Join us, as we take you to some of the most amazing concept stores around the world, that’ll probably prompt you to take your pending shopping trip this year!
The Apartment, Copenhagen
The Apartment with its arched wooden door, filled with wall hangings and designer décor pieces is a design gallery located in an 18th century apartment in Copenhagen. The gallery is designed to feel like a private home from which you can bring home everything from the art on the walls to the carefully curated furniture, lighting and textiles.
The Webster, Los Angeles
Boasting an unparalleled curation of high-end fashion and luxury goods, The Webster is the ultimate shop for one stop shoppers. All the Webster store ) reflect the spirit of its surroundings, the Los Angeles store in particular is a must-visit. Designed by David Adjaye, the building is made with pink concrete to be tough and gentle at the same time. This luxurious outlet is illuminated by a multicoloured art installation, adorned with vintage wallpapers that highlights the 360-mirrored VIP fitting room.
Gucci Wooster, New York
The Gucci Wooster store in the heart of SoHo is an interactive and visually captivating store that offers exclusive collections, limited edition items for all the fashion-forward crowd. Offering an exclusive luxury retail therapy, this Gucci showroom is equipped with interesting digital elements such as 3D screen technology, armchairs, augmented reality for in-store customizations to provide a future-forward shopping experience to all the shoppers.
Coach Airways, Malaysia
Set inside a grounded Boeing 747, Coach Airways is the world’s first retail concept store in an aeroplane. Coach Airways is located at the Freeport A’Famosa Outlet in Malacca, Malaysia. The luxury fashion store aims to revive the lavishness of early air travel which can be accessed by boarding passes and caters to all genders. With an in-store café and gallery, the Coach Airways offers one-of-a-kind shopping experience to the visitors.
Gentle Monster
A known Korean eyewear brand, Gentle Monster aces the concept of concept store! From Seoul to Los Angeles, each of their stores are filled with immersive art installations and unconventional displays that blurs the line between store and art. Their store in Los Angeles leads visitors on a journey through the stages of harvest by way of moving installations, surreal sculptures while the Seoul store presents the beginning of future retail, the HAUS concept.
Dover Street Market
Dover Street Market or DSM is one of the early concept stores which blends department-store-and-exhibition space models. The Market showcases perfumes, cosmetics, and makeup brands from around the world in a display made of a forest of pillars with carved out shelves. Spread out in locations in New York, Tokyo, Singapore, Beijing, and Los Angeles, the DSM is a distinguished setting for a collection of avant-garde young labels and ubiquitous luxury brands for all the shoppers.
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