Retail · Budapest · 2020

A narrow shop, using its height

The interior design of the Tinamu cosmetics shop, one hundred square metres. It is the second store of the Neroli group — the first Neroli was also designed by Ren Design.

The brief

A city-centre unit: narrow and deep, but with a mezzanine and a double-height glazed shopfront. That plan carries two risks. Customers do not walk to the back, and the height goes unused above their heads.

The answer

A large bird graphic covers the rear wall — the tinamou, the bird the brand is named after. It pulls the eye to the depth of the shop before anyone takes a step.

Travertine runs in a vertical band from the floor to above mezzanine level. It ties the two storeys together and provides the only warm surface.

Everything else is white and lit. Shelves sit in backlit white wall panels with glass shelf plates, so the packaging supplies the colour — and the picture changes as the range does.

Under the mezzanine, in the lower band, sit the make-up counter and mirror; in the tall part, the large pendants. Here the fittings are not only light sources: they occupy the empty volume above head height.

Data

Location: Budapest, Hungary
Year: 2020
Type: Cosmetics shop, full interior design
Area: 100 m²
The group: Second store of the Neroli group; the first Neroli also by Ren Design
Status: Completed

The completed shop

The rear of the shop with the large tinamou wall graphic, a travertine band and backlit shelving alongside — The tinamou on the rear wall — it pulls the eye to the depth of the shop.

A run of backlit shelves with glass shelf plates, filled with cosmetics, next to a band of travertine — Shelves sit in backlit white wall panels: the product supplies the colour.

The double-height glazed shopfront seen from outside at night, the lit interior visible through it — The double-height glazed shopfront: the shop lights the street at night too.

Make-up counter with a lit-frame mirror under the mezzanine, the till behind, a travertine band on the wall — Under the mezzanine, in the lower band, the make-up counter and mirror.

The shop by day: three large white pendants above the island counter, customers at the shelf wall — The large pendants occupy the empty volume above head height.

The design

Design render of the shop: white island counter, pendant fittings, the bird graphic at the far end — The design view: the island counter and the bird graphic at the back of the shop.

Design render of the shop: the counter and the backlit shelf wall behind it — The counter as designed, with the shelf wall behind.

Photography: Ren Design · the last two images are design renders

Ren Design is a Budapest interior architecture studio with work in Europe, the Gulf, South America and Asia. On this project the studio designed the whole interior of the Tinamu shop, from concept to the furniture schedule.