The Studio redesigned the shoe department at Comme des Garçons’ Dover Street Market in London, where a series of stacking plaster building blocks were designed to help reconfigure and change the way the space is used. The purity of the white plaster contrasts with the roughness of the rendered concrete walls, and a series of interlocking copper pipes provides a strong industrial element to the design as well as providing plinths for the more practical purpose of displaying multicoloured sneakers. The idea was not to have a super-glossy, highly finished look but to reveal the very nature of the materials and their inherent imperfections.

Photographs by Leon Chew.