Hazard lines and metal shelving are some of the industrial finishes that Torafu Architects has included in bag brand Freitag's store in Kyoto ? which even includes its own workshop.
Freitag's Kyoto store, which is shortlisted in the small retail interior category of the 2020 Dezeen Awards, occupies what was formerly two separate retail units in the city's Nakagyo-ku district.
The interiors of the store have been designed by Torafu Architects to look like Freitag's logistics warehouse at the brand's headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.
Top image: the store's exterior. Above: hazard lines have been painted on some of the store's surfaces
Industrial-style details have been incorporated throughout the 80-square-metre space, which the architecture practice said they left in a "skeleton state". For example, black-and-yellow hazard lines have been painted around one of the store's structural columns. Similar lines appear beneath the green cash desk. Just opposite sits a matching rubber-topped counter where customers will be able to set down and inspect any potential purchases.
PVC flap curtains were used to screen off the shop's storeroom, which is enclosed by a volume clad in wood-wool boards. Simple strip lights have also been fitted across the ceiling.
Freitag's bags are displayed on metal shelves or stored in drawers
Bags are displayed on metal shelves or on top of pallets which have been stacked up in the store's front window.
Uniform rows of drawers that run across...