In Los Angeles’s Design District, a new 3,500-square-foot space creates a journey through Rimadesio’s offerings. The interior architecture studio, Luca Lanzetta Group, worked within Rimadesio’s in-house team, R Studio, to create a journey through the brand’s many offerings, from doors to furnishings to organizational systems. The collaboration marks the first monobrand store for Rimadesio and the first retail project in Los Angeles for the architects.
The space begins with a wall of windows, which bring natural light into the clean, white interior, warmed by the wall of Rimadesio’s boiserie. The neutral entry enables Rimadesio’s offerings to light the stage. The Long Island table falls to one side of a partitioning bookshelf, while on the other side a living room–esque set up offers seating and a console.
Past the entry, the design creates pathways of discovery. Doors open into niches which open into more rooms of product vignettes. The continually unfolding design is crowned by an atrium, topped with a skylight, to bring more natural light deeper into the space.
Like the design as a whole, the atrium balances lightness with the density and world building of the brand. The walls of the atrium are lined with recessed niches to display the brand’s closet and organization systems.
The mediation of the brand’s diverse products, unfolded through elements of surprise and encounter, heightens the attention to place. It brings visitors on a spatial tour of the many designs at hand, turning what may seem overwhelming into a light, serene immersion.
