Lady M IAPM Shop
The IAPM Lady M patisserie sits at a focal point of a busy commercial district, between two spaces: a semi-outdoor sunken courtyard by a metro entrance, and an indoor lobby leading into one of Shanghai’s most upmarket malls.
- Type
- Commission
- Status
- Delivered
- Completed
- 2019
- Client
- Shanghai MUXIN Catering Management Co., Ltd.
- Scale
- 180 m2
- Program
- Interior Design for Patisserie
- Architect
- AND Studio
About
To answer this double condition, the shop takes a circular form that guides passers-by. The circle draws a loop of curves that leads people into the store. Inside, the circle also suits a patisserie: at human scale it echoes the shape of a cake. It sets itself against the directed circulation around the store, since a circle points nowhere in particular, and it remains a shape open to many possibilities.
The layout differs from ordinary mall retail. No threshold marks the entrance; the outer curve flows straight into the interior. A light strip in the ceiling carries the circle inside, and the seating mirrors the outdoor arrangement of seats set along a street. Behind the seats, the main wall shows classical niches in a simplified modern form.