Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has collaborated with Camper in the design of their second store in Prince Street, New York. The architect has created a simple, ingenious shelving display which conceals the shoes as one enters the space. Ban's "10-Unit System" furniture for Artek is installed in the middle of the room, offering space for visitors to sit while trying their shoes on. The intervention reduces furniture to a minimum to maximise space and light to the entire store.
The intervention makes a balanced use of the Camper red and white colours. The angled fin walls of the shelving units each feature a piece of the Camper logo: when viewed from Prince Street on angle the logo is read as a complete word. When viewed from the opposite street, the letters are broken. The dimensions of the shelving unit correspond to red stripes on the concrete flooring and to the corrugated red and white ceiling.
The original exterior windows and walls between the structural piers were demolished, and Ban installed in its place sliding floor to ceiling glass doors, which will open the entire façade onto the street in warmer days. The roof is made of paper tubes, a signature material for Shigeru Ban, contributing to the concept of the store as being "the house of shoes".
Shigeru Ban: Camper Together store
The Japanese architect has designed the new Camper store in Soho, a "house of shoes" with an ingenious shelving system, reducing furniture to a minimum and maximizing space and light.
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- 24 May 2012
- New York