Tandem Studio has combines elements inspired by the wool industry with the visual clarity of gallery design, to create a zoned shopping experience of interwoven stories for Yellow Earth’s flagship store at Emporium.
February 4th, 2016
The client brief for Yellow Earth’s flagship store was to create a unique and memorable shopping experience that improved brand awareness and raised perceived merchandise value. Knitted yarn inspired the curving, rope shopfront and suspended display cones, while the rough textured floor references timber wool sheds and steel frames that feature throughout the store are a reminder of tanneries, machine rooms and sewing floors. Wool itself is showcased through the felt lights and sheepskin wall cladding.
The retail experience commences as shoppers pass through the visual complexity of the woven shopfront, arriving at the central ‘best of’ feature zone lit by felt lights, and circulating into zones delineated by the suspended woven cones, shoe library and Sean Morris’s Melbourne street art. At the rear, a secondary ‘shopfront’, faces out on the second level into the street, realising another opportunity for window dressing behind the sheepskin clad walls of the home wares section.
Display opportunities are mixed into the design encouraging a playful, installation approach to shopfront merchandising and ‘best of’ display zones. Merchandise and found objects can be placed into hollows and alcoves of the undulating yarn curtain and woven display cones, on cantilevered shoe boxes or beneath street art, creating easy associations between the merchandise and highly considered design elements.
The visual impact of the shopfront and its tactile, playful nature creates a constant visual interplay between transparency, translucency and vibration as mall visitors continually run their hands across the threads, strumming the shopfront. The store is a distinct retail landmark in the highly competitive retail environment.
Photography by Nic Granleese
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