Issey Miyake: Women

Status: 1988
Location: London

Client: Issey Miyake International
Value: Confidential

 

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.

 

Credits
Cost Consultant: Stockdale
Structural Engineer: Nickalls and Roche
Mechanical Engineer: N E Inglis and Partners
Contractor: Howard and Constable Contracts
Party Wall Surveyor: Nigel Smith
Photography: Peter Cook