Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Hong Kong retail project opens

MET Studio Design have completed a new retail project within the shopping complex of IFC2 (the International Finance Centre 2) in Hong Kong for jewellery retailer CARAT*, a leading retailer in the growing market for high quality synthetic and simulant gemstones. The store is the retailer’s fourth outlet in Hong Kong, following on from the success of a first store in the Lan Kwai Fong district and two department store concessions. ‘Our brief was to evolve the design of the existing store’, commented MET Studio Design’s Senior Designer Neil Williams, ‘moving on from its harder, geometric lines and softening the overall feel with the use of curved lines and new materials, as well as working around the parameters of an unusual space, both making the most of that space whilst ensuring optimum security for the product.’