Obakki describes itself as “Canada’s premier fashion house”. They have a modern store interior designed by mcfarlane | green | biggar with assistance from Brent Comber on the interior wood details.
The architect created dramatic details like concrete walls with formwork impressions meeting polished concrete floors, white corian objects connected to Comber’s wooden bar and polished stainless steel clothing racks suspended from the ceiling.
A number of objects appear to hover (the corian cash register, stainless steel clothing racks). These floating elements add even more drama and give the impression of lightness and openness.
I liked the story at Comber’s site that described him needing to rent a sawmill for an entire afternoon to cut 30″ square spruce blocks. “It was a little scary but also fun.”
Images courtesy of mgb architecture + design.