It’s a mixed bag of inspirations this month. From wooden greenhouses at trade fairs to a modern wooden take on chandeliers to the latest pop up store by Body using white bricks in a novel way to nail lacquer dripping all over GPO. Creativity is literally pouring out of these brands.
GPO collaborated with OPI to offer a Nail Frenzy for the Races. A novel idea for injecting some colour into your spring racing outfit. We particularly loved the oversized posters with pop colour nail lacquer dripping from the 1st floor!
We met the entertaining, talented and unique Loz from Grandeliers at Life In Style in August. We were totally smitten by her exceptionally modern take on chandeliers using acrylics and Tasmanian woods. Lighting is really having a design moment and adding luminosity to any room is now such a hard choice with so many amazing designer options out there. We think these grandeliers would suit so many bars, cafe’s, gallery spaces and of course adorn many an inner city apartment or loft style warehouse.
As we’ve discussed before, pop-up shops are a great way for a retailer to test the waters in a certain location to suss out the foot traffic and neighbourhood before committing to a 8-10 year lease. So we’re not surprised to hear that Body by dainy sawatzky has launched a pop up shop in Chapel Street, South Yarra. Body has always had a unique retail offering with locations varying from Healesville to East St Kilda to Degraves Lane, so this pop up location shows a more commercial side to their business. However, there’s nothing commercial about their temporary shop fit out. Using white bricks to their true visual merchandising potential and making the most of a small space, this fit out is a little pocket of heaven. Something Holly Hobby would be comfortable in! Open until 31 December 2011, make sure you pop by. It’s next to Zimmerman and the Pound Cafe on Oxford Street (although considered Chapel street by the posties!)
The humble greenhouse has had many incarnations of late and we’re pretty smitten with it. We particularly loved this example used at a trade fair for housing Seedling’s products at Life In Style. It’s raw timber aesthetic made it stand out amongst all the white stands and the astroturf brought a homely feel to it (not to mention the comfort on our sore feet from traipsing up and down the halls). We also loved the DIY kids products they had at this fair, encouraging kids to interact more with their toys.
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