The world’s most well-known architects, Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher have been commissioned to design the interior of the Neil Barrett shop in Tokyo.

The concept of the store plays with the complementary characteristics and the related dualism between male and female.

This is echoed in the furniture design on both floors through the formal language and tactile quality of the materials used. The furniture piece on the ground floor is designed as a strong, masculine and dynamic form whilst the piece on the first floor enunciates femininity through more fluid contour lines.

The first floor is designed in a more playful manner creating different zones that maintain the perspective view between them. This interplay between male and female is followed through in the general aesthetic concept , setting the furniture piece with a white smooth Corian finish against the raw fair faced concrete surface of the rest of the space.

This is further accentuated through the contrast in colour and finish of the white matt furniture finish against a black glossy floor.

In two formal elements the design shifts between architecture and sculpture, where a compact mass of surface layers unravel and fold to form the shelving display and seating. The emerging folds will be used as display area for the Neil Barrett accessory collection.

ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

NEIL BARRETT FLAGSHIP STORE IN TOKYO, JAPAN
Client: Neil Barrett
Design: Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
Project Architects: Claudia Wulf, Elke Presser, Torsten Broeder

Neil Barrett
Zaha Hadid Architects
Photos Virgile Simon Bertrand

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