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MADE Flagship Store in Soho

Central London Commercial Interior Design at 100 Charing Cross Road, UK design by Bureau de Change Architects

10 Feb 2016

MADE Flagship Store

Design: Bureau de Change Architects

Location: 100 Charing Cross Road, Soho, London, UK

Architects Bureau de Change complete MADE flagship store in Soho

MADE Flagship Store

The brief for the award-winning MADE.com store was to re-evaluate the concept of a ‘showroom’ and incorporate technology in a way that would genuinely add value to the customer experience.

MADE Flagship Store

Located in one of Europe’s busiest shopping districts, the new store experience begins with the external windows. Rather than display product behind the glass, the glazing itself becomes a full scale representation of the product in an intricate temporary installation.

MADE Flagship Store

Commenting on the design, Bureau de Change co-founder, Billy Mavropoulos said:

“This is such a bustling street, with so many stores vying for your attention, we wanted to produce something unexpected – an idea that would set it apart from the traditional product display format.

MADE Flagship Store

“Instead, we have taken a single idea – of the products pushing through the glazing – and filled each window with it. You still get a sense of the products beyond the frontage, but the views are more intriguing, more oblique.”

MADE Flagship Store

MADE Flagship Store

Almost 40,000 hollow clear plastic rods puncture the 10 windows of the store to create three-dimensional ‘pinpressions’ (similar to the 1980’s executive PinArt toy) of some of MADE’s most iconic pieces of furniture.

MADE Flagship Store

Inside, the store blends physical product with full scale projections in a series of room sets. Customers are guided through a network of white-washed walls – curved like the pages of a book (referencing the literary history of Charing Cross Road). These walls provide a clean backdrop for the furniture and a canvas upon which products can be projected. The use of large format projections mean a single room can show multiple combinations of product changeable on demand.

MADE Flagship Store

This opens up the possibility for customers to experience the full product catalogue without requiring a hangar-like showroom or costly central storage facilities.

MADE Flagship Store

Katerina Dionysopoulou, co-founder of Bureau de Change added:

“MADE has always been ahead of the curve, and so the Soho store had to offer something more than the typical high street experience. For us, the design challenge was how to display in-store, where space is at a premium, the breadth of content you can on a website.

“The projections provide a true, adaptable representation of the products, at the right scale, in the right place. Without them, the room sets feel unfinished, so for us they were the missing link to achieving a flexibility you can normally only achieve online.”

Customers are provided with tablets on which they can browse and find further product information about their favourite pieces.

Alongside the digital experience, a large physical furniture sample archive provides an opportunity to touch and feel fabrics and explore colour swatches to help decision-making.

MADE Flagship Store

Chloe Macintosh, MADE.COM Co-Founder and Creative Director, said:

“Taking on a central London location is a huge step for us as a brand. We see it as an opportunity to meet with a broader range of customers and for them to experience the MADE way of thinking.

“The space was designed on a tight budget and timeframe but Bureau de Change brought a lot of ingenuity and flair and turned an old rundown bookstore into a crisp, spacious and inviting design for our customers.”

Bureau de Change won the award for best large retail space at the 2015 World Interior News Awards.

MADE Flagship Store

Photography: Eliot Postma

MADE Flagship Store in Soho images / information received 100216

Address: 100 Charing Cross Rd, London WC2H 0JG
Phone: 0344 257 1888

Location: 100 Charing Cross Road, Soho, London, WC2H 0JG, England, UK

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