Issey Miyake: Men

Status: 1987
Location: London

Client: Issey Miyake International
Value: Confidential

 

“Stanton Williams’ Issey Miyake shop in Knightsbridge shows their mastery of light, space and form” Architecture Today

 

We have worked on a number of projects for the designer Issey Miyake. We have a natural sympathy for his use of textures, space and movement, and in a variety of locations, we have tried to create open spaces that reflect and complement his clothes.

A strong sense of presence was created, with restrained, sculptural spaces, dramatised by the clothes, drawing in as much natural light as possible to what were frequently awkwardly shaped and basement spaces.

The designs incorporate natural materials - from Italian hand-crafted marmarino – a luminous and reflective mixture of marble dust and plaster, sand blasted or waxed Portland stone, to oak and maple fittings. Displays were ‘carved’ into walls, with pull out shelves to maximise space.

 

Awards
1988 D&AD Gold Award
1991 D&AD Silver Award

 

Credits
Photography: Peter Cook