The team from Java Architecture tempered their preference for "soberness and order" to deliver this jewellery store interior for a Parisian client who could not get enough gold and pink.
The French firm was tasked with designing a new interior for Nuun, a brand of jewellery designed by Nourah Al Faisal.

The client requested an opulent, gold and pink colour palette for the 70-square-metre shop, which initially threw the architects.
"When we got out of our first client meeting for the design of the new Nuun jewellery shop in Paris, we felt a bit disoriented by the client brief, which could be summarised as: I want more gold, I love pink," said Florian Levy, one of Java Architecture's founders.

"After spending a night with our friends from Atelier Brunoir asking ourselves how can we conciliate the client's desire for shining extravagance and our classical architect's desire for soberness and order, we finally agreed on a project: the pink should be slightly diffuse by indirect light; the gold should be spread around the project by adding a number of precious brass construction elements," added Levy. The team focused its attention on one long feature wall. Although it is white, it has the appearance of being a faint, dappled pink, due to light reflected off the arched, pink-backed panels that sit in front of it.

These offset panels hold the jewellery display cases, inherited from the store's previous owner.
Another coloured wall at the back of ...