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Retail

The last hundred metres of the economy, repeatedly reinvented.

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Kartell

Kartell is an Italian company, headquartered in the Metropolitan City of Milan, that makes and sells contemporary plastic furniture.
7:08

IDEO

IDEO’s 1999 shopping cart wasn’t built to shop — it was built to be watched.
4:29

Tord Boontje

Boontje proved ornament could scale — not as decoration, but as a design strategy for retail and research.
11:19

Fabio Novembre

A designer who built a career on adjacency — not authorship, not ideology, but calibrated presence across commerce, culture and city.
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Muji

Kenya Hara · 1979

The work is Kenya Hara’s 2001 appointment as Muji’s art director — a strategic, graphic-led recalibration of a brand adrift from its 'No design' principle. He treated every object as designed, not neutral; replaced myth with method; and tightened coherence across 5,000 products and 250 stores. His posters — 'Horizon' (2003) and 'Natsure, Naturally, MUJI.' (2018) — are artefacts of that stance. Nothing in the sources supports claims about product design, architecture, or influence beyond Muji itself.