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| Comme des Garçons initiated a collaboration
with Future Systems in New York, Tokyo and Paris. The brief
to create a new kind of space with an atmosphere of experimentation
resulted in powerful, uncompromising environments, where the
relationship between space and clothing is dictated by the design. |
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| New York, the existing nineteenth
century fabric with all the old signage and external industrial
fire escapes is retained. Grafted behind the central existing
brickwork entrance arch is the link between inside and outside;
an asymmetric tubular entrance structure made entirely from
aluminium. The skin of the tube has been mechanically formed
and then finished by hand. The surface is natural and raw, yet
mechanical and machined. |
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| Tokyo, two horizontal concrete
slabs of a dumb existing building are joined with two ribbons
of conical-curved, inclined glass offering a simple liquid entrance
where they converge. The glass is covered with a layer of translucent
blue dots which act as a filter between inside and outside.
At night the movement of people within the shop creates a curiosity
for the pedestrian passing the façade. |
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| Paris, the third shop in this
triptych is a perfume shop. The historic, worn stone façade
is protected and enhanced by a sheer skin of pale pink glass
sliding gracefully in front of it. |
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