Thin copper shelves match cylindrical sinks at this store close to San Francisco’s waterfront, designed by New York studio Tacklebox for skincare brand Aesop. The boutique in the city’s Jackson Square neighbourhood opened last year, as did another Tacklebox-designed shop, lined with 30,000 sticks, in Washington DC.
The studio, led by Jeremy Barbour, based the design on “fault lines and natural rifts within the area’s geological timeframe”. Walls of textured plaster hold a series of display shelves, which appear like metallic fissures in the surfaces. “Bracing, stitching, and splicing the surface of the wall terrain, forty-one solid copper shelves bridge the in-between,” said Tacklebox.
