A sixty-square-metre shop where the product changes colour every week. Anything we designed with a strong palette of its own would have been fighting the stock by the second delivery.
Build a neutral room with one move in it: a continuous plaster bench that wraps three walls and steps in section, so the flowers arrange themselves in tiers without a single freestanding display unit. The room is a plinth.
The shop reads differently every week and the architecture never dates. Stock capacity went up, because the bench uses the wall height the old units could not.
The only colour decision in the room is the temperature of the light: 3000K, high CRI, aimed at the bench rather than the floor, so whites stay white and the reds do not go orange.
Water is the enemy of a plaster bench, so the top surface is sealed stone with a shadow gap draining behind — invisible from the shop floor, hosed out in the evening.
Sixty square metres is small enough that every millimetre of the section matters. We drew the bench at 1:5 along its whole length before a single block was laid.