French shoe brand Nodaleto has chosen Miami as the location of its first US store, which New York studio Rafael de Cárdenas designed with sci-fi-influenced red and chrome interiors.
The shop opened in Miami Design District during the city's art week earlier this month, starting a two-year lease in the 1,000-square-metre space (10,764 feet).
Sculptural red seats run through the middle of the Nodaleto store
Rafael de Cárdenas based the interior on mid-century French design, as a homage to the influence this movement had on sets created for sci-fi movies.
The studio also linked the shape of Nodaleto's signature heels to chairs featured in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The interiors pay homage to midcentury French design and space-age movie sets "The design, driven by the concept of 'hyper-modern hospitality', explores shapes and materials that echo the feel of a space station as well as an idea of a glamorous future," said the Rafael de Cárdenas team.
"In many ways, midcentury French design defined the frontier of space as much as NASA; the interior reflects that."
Shoes are displayed on white shelves in front of brushed chrome panels
Sci-fi references can be seen across the store, which is fully carpeted in bright red and features brushed chrome panels divided by thin light strips along its walls.
"In cinematographic style, a warm satin velvet floor meets cold steel shelves," the studio said. "The store space ? in line wit...