Fashion house - 12/14/20
In December 2020, Maison Margiela opens a new flagship boutique at 33, Avenue Montaigne in Paris’s 8th arrondissement.
The store concept is developed by Dutch architect Studio Anne Holtrop and reflects the evolved
visual language established at the house by creative director John Galliano. Holtrop’s design was first introduced in the gypsum-cast set at the Artisanal Autumn/Winter 2018 show, and it interprets the Maison’s iconoclast codes in façade and interiors. The store is an abstracted and inviting environment rooted in the notion of appropriating the inappropriate.
The 250-square meter boutique spans over two levels and displays the complete range of Maison Margiela’s Co-Ed collections, men’s and women’s ready to wear, accessories, shoes, small leather goods, as well as jewelry, eyewear and fragrances.
At the Avenue Montaigne store, the defining structures of architecture – walls and columns – appear as detached objects. Artisanal furnishings reflect and alter ideas of familiarity. Familiar shapes skew in form, as they lean and fold around the demarcation of the space, drawing on ideas of dressing in haste native to Maison Margiela’s vocabulary.
Hand-cast individually in textile molds, the surfaces of the plaster walls and columns retain the memory of fabric texture, sculpting dents, and evoke the notion of an irreproducible hand-spun tactility. The store encourages the human touch that created it.
Retained in their natural shade of plaster – the humble inside of a wall – the structures reflect the practice of anonymity of the lining, the house term for revealing the inside of a garment traditionally concealed and revealing the inner workings. The plaster’s natural tonality further echoes the signature white of Maison Margiela.
Misfit furniture is designed in the memory of classic objects, deconstructed in form. The technique of décortiqué further materializes in shelves, display tables and seats carved in stained travertine, the natural indentations filled with colour-contrasting epoxy resin in optical white.
The ceilings and walls of fitting rooms – the most personal inner sanctums of a store – painted in a dark-green high gloss almost black, creates a deep shimmering shine echoed in Japanese lacquer cabinets, conveying sentiments of glamour and the feelings of allure and familiarity that it generates.
33, Avenue Montaigne is Maison Margiela’s fourth store in Paris, in addition to the Maison’s two stores on Rue Montpensier near Palais Royal, as well as the Rue de Grenelle boutique on the left bank. Anne Holtrop’s store concept for Maison Margiela debuted with the Bruton Street store in London, followed by Avenue Montaigne in Paris, Osaka, Japan, and Shanghai, China.
Store name: Maison Margiela Avenue Montaigne - Paris
Location: 33 Avenue Montaigne - 75008 Paris
The store concept is developed by Dutch architect Studio Anne Holtrop and reflects the evolved
visual language established at the house by creative director John Galliano. Holtrop’s design was first introduced in the gypsum-cast set at the Artisanal Autumn/Winter 2018 show, and it interprets the Maison’s iconoclast codes in façade and interiors. The store is an abstracted and inviting environment rooted in the notion of appropriating the inappropriate.
The 250-square meter boutique spans over two levels and displays the complete range of Maison Margiela’s Co-Ed collections, men’s and women’s ready to wear, accessories, shoes, small leather goods, as well as jewelry, eyewear and fragrances.
At the Avenue Montaigne store, the defining structures of architecture – walls and columns – appear as detached objects. Artisanal furnishings reflect and alter ideas of familiarity. Familiar shapes skew in form, as they lean and fold around the demarcation of the space, drawing on ideas of dressing in haste native to Maison Margiela’s vocabulary.
Hand-cast individually in textile molds, the surfaces of the plaster walls and columns retain the memory of fabric texture, sculpting dents, and evoke the notion of an irreproducible hand-spun tactility. The store encourages the human touch that created it.
Retained in their natural shade of plaster – the humble inside of a wall – the structures reflect the practice of anonymity of the lining, the house term for revealing the inside of a garment traditionally concealed and revealing the inner workings. The plaster’s natural tonality further echoes the signature white of Maison Margiela.
Misfit furniture is designed in the memory of classic objects, deconstructed in form. The technique of décortiqué further materializes in shelves, display tables and seats carved in stained travertine, the natural indentations filled with colour-contrasting epoxy resin in optical white.
The ceilings and walls of fitting rooms – the most personal inner sanctums of a store – painted in a dark-green high gloss almost black, creates a deep shimmering shine echoed in Japanese lacquer cabinets, conveying sentiments of glamour and the feelings of allure and familiarity that it generates.
33, Avenue Montaigne is Maison Margiela’s fourth store in Paris, in addition to the Maison’s two stores on Rue Montpensier near Palais Royal, as well as the Rue de Grenelle boutique on the left bank. Anne Holtrop’s store concept for Maison Margiela debuted with the Bruton Street store in London, followed by Avenue Montaigne in Paris, Osaka, Japan, and Shanghai, China.
Store name: Maison Margiela Avenue Montaigne - Paris
Location: 33 Avenue Montaigne - 75008 Paris
Designer:
Maison Margiela
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