Blauel Architects: Holts Jewellers, Hatton Garden, London
- Published: 16 January 2008 20:20
- Author: Kieran Long
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Blauel Architects: Holts Jewellers, Hatton Garden, London
"Passing customers are greeted by a window display resembling a fissure in a rock that contains the precious gems. Designed as an abstraction, it starkly frames an array of pads that seem to float in the fissure bathed in bright warm light, beautifully presenting a wide selection of gems."
Blauel Architects
Blauel Architects has added a contemporary facade to a jeweller's shop in the historic jewellery quarter of Hatton Garden in central London. Precious stones are exhibited throughout the store in a fissure-like display system that looks like something abstractedly geological. The fissure is painted in white on its horizontal surfaces, concentrating light (and the customer's attention) on the merchandise. The interior of the shop is arranged in a circle, with display shelves surrounding a space that the architect compares to a trading floor.
