The barrage of posts we’ve recently published on the interior design of retail spaces has us thinking: Vancouver is a wide-open, largely untapped market for retailers looking to set up innovative and conceptually driven shops. With the exception of Dutil on Cordova Street, few have utilized creative or thematic merchandizing as a means of cultural [...]

Comme des Garcons has been killing the pop-up shop scene since 2004 with their self-dubbed “guerilla stores”.
They’ve had shops in swanky locales like Barcelona, Singapore, Athens, Reykjavik and East Berlin, just to name a few. Each location stays open for one year only, and advertising is kept grassroots. Unless you come across a poster [...]

Hotel Everland is a one-room traveling art and design project created by Swiss artists Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann. The hotel was initially exhibited on stilts at Neuchâtel Lake in Switzerland as part of the 2002 Swiss Expo and has since been displayed on the roof of Gallery für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Germany.
Open to the [...]