A .R .E. DESIGN AWARDS 2012
GRAND PRIZE
Sailing to New Heights
Louis Vuitton Island Maison translates familiar ideas into unexpected riches, earning it this year’s A.R.E. Store of the Year honors.
By Anne DiNardo, Editor
40 MAY 2012 | vmsd.com
Projects entered into A.R.E.’s annual Design Awards competition are judged on function and aesthetics, excellence in design, originality and quality of execution. In many ways, this year’s store of the year – Louis Vuitton Island Maison – blew the competition out of the water. Refining the notion of a nautical theme, Southeast Asia’s first Maison store takes ideas of travel and sea and translates them into a distinct design in Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands. Visitors to this floating glass and steel palace can access the store in one of three ways: via an
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