Designed as a spatially-efficient and visually-engaging retail space, the interior of the new RK Apothecary shop features products displayed on a series of ‘outré fruit’, rather than on shelves to enable the customers to engage freely with the products.
The LADG’s design had to address the limitations of the original structure, which was a small and dense space with structural and mechanical elements that could not be altered. The new interior design has to respond to the exterior design as the client did not have the option of gutting it down. The double-height ceilings of the space required them to develop hanging lighting fixtures to activate the space.
While creating the new ‘outré fruit’ display tables, the design team derived inspiration from the water filled ice bags similar to those used by British nurses to sooth the fever of an ailing patient. LADG experimented with water filled ice bags and observed how the bags slumped, folded and reeled around obstacles. This option was found to be viable as square or rectilinear tables were either too big to allow customers to pass through the store or too small to accommodate the large number groupings of product.
