Hussein Chalayan
Block were commisioned to design fashion designer Hussein Chalayan’s flagship store in Tokyo. The brief was developed in collaboration through a series of ‘text maps’ outlining relationships between a number of themes: cultural displacement; air travel and imbuing a sense of timelessness and charm within the space. Through this the ground floor became an internal olive grove with clothes hung from washing poles surrounded by aeroplane fuselage storage walls and backgammon tiles (a game common to the designer’s native Cyprus). The tiles also appear on the upper floor in the form of an internal courtyard. Here the aeroplane wall continues, augmented by aircraft service trolleys, which allow for flat clothes display.
Block
Architecture
FX International Interior Design Awards 2004
Winner, Best Retail
