SHOEBALOO Flagship Store Koningsplein Story by MVSA Architects SHOEBALOO Flagship Store Koningsplein

SHOEBALOO Flagship Store Koningsplein

MVSA Architects as Architects

Shoebaloo is renowned for its high-end designer shoes and accessories, and has various branches in the city. Shoebaloo’s stores are distinguished by exceptional interior design with a chicness that reflects the brands on offer. MVSA Architects designed the new Flagship Store; situated on Koningsplein, a prominent square in the centre of Amsterdam.


In Shoebaloo’s tradition, the design of this store features a unique retail concept that suits the high-end designer shoes and accessories on display. More than just a store, a spatial experience where shoes emerge like precious treasures is offered. MVSA’s concept of many Shoebaloo stores presents a closed, mysterious display window that reveals little of what lies behind.


At this store, in contrary, that world already appears open and transparent from the outside. The glass front has an elliptical bright white display window that transforms into two openings that, from the street, view into the store. A dynamic play of lines emerges from the openings in the display window, where varying heights of curving translucent surfaces display the shoes.


The store comprises two elliptical spaces that gravitate towards each other in the centre of the space. At the rear is the counter and a large vertical elliptic vitrine, both integrated into the contours. The sinuous walls are clad with layers of pure white Hi-Macs, a solid surface material. Continuing the play of lines in the walls, the displays are fashioned from thinner layers of translucent Hi-Macs underlit with LEDs.


The floor is composed of book-matched marble slabs. Two ellipses of white marble feature black veins. The middle section where the elliptical spaces start to merge is articulated in reverse in black marble with white veins. The dark ellipse ceilings feature a pattern of fluid, bright, glowing lines that twist through a starry sky.

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