Mark’style

— Paris (75) — 2016
Architect: Joseph Grappin
Client: Mark’Style Tokyo
Location: retail

Deployed throughout the entire volume of the store, a shelving structure crafted from light olive ash wood contrasts with the store’s dark storefront. Installed along the walls and up to the ceiling, the construction is skillfully built according to a principle of ramifications whose rhizomatic development in the form of a geometric grid is enhanced by a play of mirrors arranged on the ceiling.
This system of mechanical joints, without nails or screws, a type of complex tenon and mortise, offers an adapted reinterpretation of traditional Japanese carpentry assemblies. It is an experimental system of wooden keys, developed specifically with Métalobil, which successively locks the wooden pieces at each shelf height.