SIZE: 230 sq.m
DATE: 2003
Carlos Miele’s new flagship store, designed by the New York-based firm Asymptote Architecture, opened last year at 380 rue Saint-Honoré. The design of the 230-square-meter, two-story store takes its inspiration from a combination of influences including Brazilian masters Oscar Niemeyer and Roberto Burle Marx and their interest in abstract figurative affinities, the French Baroque and Parisian Art Nouveau, all tempered by the precision inherent in new technological means of manufacture and design. The store was conceived to be an engaging environmental art installation where fashion is an inseparable part of the experience....more