Projects
The Body Studio, Selfridges
Client
The Body Studio
Architects
Neri&Hu
Location
Oxford Steet, London
Materials used
Custom cement-based terrazzo
The Body Studio encompasses over 3,400 square meters of retail luxuriousness at London department store Selfridges. It is not only the largest department in the famous building on Oxford Street but also was described ‘as the world’s most ambitious architectural transformation’ of a heritage department store’.
InOpera Group supplied custom-made Venetian terrazzo with white marble chippings, in the courtyard, near the escalators.
These kinds of spaces are often designed in two extreme spectrums, one being the over-rich, luxurious, boudoir-type aesthetic; and, at the opposite end, a strategy of a very utilitarian, almost undesigned, storage-like display is used.
– said Neri.