Projects
New lighting for the Manufactum store
Client Manufactum GmbH Display - Frankfurt Landau + Kindelbacher Lighting design Tropp Lighting Design
Frankfurt, Germany
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In November 2009 at the Podium building of the new Opernturm in Frankfurt, opposite the Alte Oper (Old Opera), the inauguration was held for the eighth Manufactum department store and a grocery store belonging to the subsidiary brot&butter. The uniqueness of the company, which has been in business for more than twenty years, has always been its range: with the motto “The good things in life still exist” (in German “Es gibt sie noch, die guten Dinge”), Manufactum offers top quality items, including second-hand objects, clothing and groceries. The incredibly vast range is displayed in Frankfurt over a surface area of more than 1100 m 2 with a system of modular display units specially developed for Manufactum. Arranged in a linear fashion and full-height,
the flexible system produces a homogeneous effect and precise order, intended to give the range of products a suitable backdrop and orientation. Particularly captivating is the choice of materials for the presentation system: with oak furniture, the store looks more like a contemporary variation on the traditional sales department than a department store. The display and interior design proposal for the Frankfurt premises was created by the Munich-based architectural firm Landau + Kindelbacher, with which Manufactum has already successfully set up the stores in Munich and Cologne. The lighting design for the Frankfurt store was by Tropp Lighting Design.
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