An LA-based clothing and home-goods retailer manufactures everything in Los Angeles themselves and hosts a ton of events and community programming, but their operations are spread out across the city. They wanted to create a new shop that would gather everything under one roof.

They had already signed a lease on a new space, and had even started on preliminary construction and demolition, so the timeline was tight. 

The building they were moving to was a typical bow truss warehouse with loadbearing masonry walls. The landlord had already started building out the infrastructure for a generic Tenant Improvement by the time we got involved. We were contending with this rough, beautiful old structure on one hand, and slapdash drywall on the other.

White-washed locally sourced vertical wood planks create a shelving and display system to wrap the walls and subdivide space. Brushed stainless steel elements are woven in to create change rooms, racks, and trays. Large boulders would be scattered about as brooding background characters.

It was a mix of warmth/craft and sleek/shiny, hopefully taking a quiet backseat to the company’s bold textile products.

Terrestrial Pursuits Corporation