Retail Space Design

A retail space design program delivered in Canada in 2024, for a premium skincare house opening a calm, gallery-quiet boutique. The brief called for a curved travertine retail scheme — wavy backlit ledges, stone-clad columns and a monolithic cash counter — all fitted whole-store from our Guangzhou workshop. Roughly seventy to one hundred square metres.

The plan turns the room around a single curved wall, its shelves cut as a stack of wavy ledges that ripple down the sweep, each edge lit so the timber reads as bands of light. A rust-brown cylindrical lightbox drops beside it as a vertical accent, while the opposite wall repeats the idea in stone-clad columns cut with backlit niches. A curved onyx cash counter with a waterfall end anchors the front, its stone face catching the same warm light.

Merchandising stays deliberately sparse. One product family per wavy ledge, spaced so each bottle stands alone; boxed sets fill the column niches in stacked runs; testers and consultation pieces wait on the counter. The low density is the point — it lets the architecture and the packaging share the attention.

Materials hold the warm-neutral scheme: travertine-textured wall finishes, walnut-toned timber ledges, rust-brown lacquer on the column lightbox, translucent onyx on the counter and a pale terrazzo floor. Lighting is concealed throughout — LED lines tucked under every ledge, warm backlights inside the niches and a soft glow inside the column — so no fitting is visible and the surfaces appear to light themselves.

Delivery followed the factory route in 2024: curved carcasses built to template, ledges veneered and lit, and the stone counter fabricated and polished before packing. The boutique fitted out in a single visit. Sample in seven to ten days, production in thirty to forty-five, shipped from Guangzhou.