Design studio Daytrip looked to Margate's dramatic beach landscape when designing this shop for the Turner Contemporary gallery, which sits perched on the town's seafront.
The David Chipperfield-designed gallery, distinguished by its opaque glass shell and expansive ocean views, recently reopened after a renovation project that included the shop along with a new cafe and common areas.
The revamped Turner Contemporary store looks out over Margate beach (top and above)
Located in the lobby, the shop's existing retail shell was designed to be highly flexible and to reflect the building's gallery spaces, with poured screed flooring, linear glazing and a prominent ribbed concrete ceiling.
Daytrip designed a new fit-out for the store that reflects both the building's architecture and the lifelong admiration that the gallery's namesake, landscape painter JMW Turner, held for Margate and its surrounding landscape in southern England. Pigment-dyed timber panels were inspired by Margate beach
"As we began putting materials together for the scheme, we wanted to capture the light and patterning of the beach," Daytrip studio co-founder Iwan Halstead told Dezeen.
"Margate beach and its seafront changes dramatically from season to season. As the tide pushes out, the beaches transform into radical landscapes of striation and patterning," he added.
"On a sunny day, the rippled beaches are captured with shadows and glistening pools of water. We also noticed the effe...