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Luxury Jewellery & Piercing Consultation Lab
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Open Project (up to $100,000)
LUXURY JEWELLERY & PIERCING CONSULTATION LAB
Designer: Ines Klein
Practice: U+I Building Studio Web: uibuildingstudio.com Photographer: Uwe Stache



DESIGN
U+I Building Studio are a specialist team of design professionals based in Sydney, founded by dynamic design duo, Uwe Stache and Ines Klein, originating from Germany.
U+I Building Studio are dedicated to effortless and contemporary designs, innate with expert craftsmanship, custom fabrication, and functionality of natural materials. Their studio focusses on bespoke commercial, hospitality, retail, residential and interior designs.
More than fifteen years of local experience has galvanised long standing relationships with returning clients, consultants, builders, and trades. Uwe and Ines take pride on establishing strong collaboration on each project. U+I not only stands for Uwe + Ines, it also embodies: you - the client, consultant, end-user; and I collaborate.
Hidden beneath our client’s retail kiosk in Paddington, the design challenge was to convert a tiny basement storeroom of 32m2 into a grand retail customer experience.
Beyond the door to the consultation room emerges an elegant yet dynamic monochromatic envelope. Sculpted into rendered concrete walls with precise minimalist detailing, the jewellery is displayed like personal valuables in a luxurious room. High vaulted ceilings create spacious grandeur and resonates with old- world architecture. Polished venetian render on the walls extend to the curved ceiling flanked by black profiled down-up linear lighting. Venetian render and polished concrete on the floors are accentuated with well appointed, custom made steel fittings & fixtures in matt-black.
Altogether this space culminates in underground luxury which resonates with the client’s brand and creates a memorable one-to-one customer experience of calm and repose.