Patrick Cox shop
PATRICK COX SHOP
Sinato: Sinato - Chikara Ohno
YEAR
2009
LOCATION
Tokyo, Japan
CATEGORY
Store Interiors
Text description provided by architect.
The interior design of Patrick Cox shop who sells bags, leather goods and accessories.The shop is in a 17-story building Tokyo’s fashion-centric Aoyama district and it is only a few steps inside the building’s main entrance.
The important point of this shop seemed to be lighting. The products can shine and get a better look if the light source is close by, not shining down from the ceiling.
So I positioned each of cylindrical steel pendant fixtures directly over a corresponding display pedestal.
These fixtures provide most of the lighting in the space without the lighting from the ceiling.
As a result, this space gets unique conditions such as “dark in above and well-lighted in below”.
The gradation of the wall is a promotion of it and at the same time, the pendant fixtures cut the void and shape the space.
Pathways in the shop seem to meander beneath a canopy formed by the largest of the drum shades.
