The Flip Flop is a pop-up optical store located at the Mumbai Airport, the store was designed for Opium, a brand known for their premium lifestyle eyewear
The minds behind The Flip Flop – RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio
RENESA, founded by Sanjay Arora, is an award-winning architectural and interior design firm based in New Delhi, India. Led by both Sanjay and his son Sanchit, RENESA likes to design brands, reinvent spaces and provide a fresh aesthetic to a company’s image.
The studio has won many prestigious awards over the years including the Best Interiors Retail Award, the Trends Awards and the Fenesterbau Frontale India.
RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio achieved a visual sticking design with the use of grids, neon green color, mirrors and interactive displays
Materials & Techniques – Mirror & neon
RENESA sought to achieve a visually striking design that articulates the functional aspects of stacking multiple products in retail spaces. By using neon green, grids, mirrors and playful displays The Flip Flop achieves an interactive element that invites customers to delve into the store.
At the entrance of the pop-up store, two archways are framed by a stark neon brand logo, immediately distinctive and enticing. The neon green is used throughout the interior design and included within the grid pattern that fills the walls and floor of the store.
Each pair of glasses is given its own “mini-stage” through flip-flop shelving units, that are exaggerated by a neon green accent. The interactive shelving units provide the interior with a richer sense of depth that allows customers to explore the space and products with interest.
The interactive shelving units allow customers to explore the space and products with interest
Style & Aesthetics – Animating and illuminating
For passers-by at Mumbai Airport, the dialogue created by the retail store design and the products is one that is both animating and illuminating. The design is centred around product presentation and interaction that allows customers to build a stronger interest and connection with the products.
The design process followed a grid of 8x4inch tiles that cover the walls, floors and even the furniture in the centre of the store. The repetition creates an essence of complexity to the space while also serving its functional purpose, resulting in an interior that articulates the language of design and everyday store typologies.
The purpose of The Flip Flop was to create an eyewear store that entertains the way that glasses play with images
The concept behind The Flip Flop was to reference how eyewear captures an image by tinting and enhancing it
The whole design concept of The Flip Flop was to create an eyewear store that entertains the way that glasses play with images. RENESA not only utilised neon green and mirrors to achieve this, but the studio also played with the curvature of the store. A sense of movement was created, enhanced by the mirrors on the central cashier desk, that gave such symmetric perspective to the store.
RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio utilized neon green, mirrors and played with the curvature of the store to create interest
Design memento – Colour blocking and perspective
The Flip Flop is a prime example of how designers can effectively use colour blocking and layouts to pique customers’ interest. The colour blocking design and curved perspective creates an animated and open-plan space that craves attention and interaction.
The color blocking design and curved perspective creates an animated and open-plan space for the store
The writer’s comment – The neon green really glows
The neon glow struck me the most when I first saw The Flip Flop. The way RENESA used neon to add an extension to the space piques interest as soon as I laid eyes on this project. The mirrors combined with the curved store offers a futuristic dynamic to the space that is irresistibly intriguing.
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