Freitag opens store in Kyoto, complete with DIY workshop + industrial aesthetics
2020.01.10
Following its first store in Japan, which opened in 2011 in Tokyo, Freitag has now opened a second outlet, setting up a new tarpaulin distribution center in an 80-sq.m space in Kyoto. The Zurich-based company, which transforms used truck tarps into new bags, has always felt a special bond with the country as it shares with it a passion for the used, wabi-sabi aesthetic look. Located very close to the ancient Nishiki market and the metropolitan Nakagyo-ku pedestrian precinct, the second Freitag store in Japan is modeled entirely on the industrial-style logistics warehouses at the company’s headquarters in Zurich.
Freitag‘s new store in Kyoto is characterized by industrial aesthetics, which bring visitors closer to the original atmosphere of the company’s headquarters in Zurich. Among other things, the store has its own workshop where customers can fulfill their DIY ambitions and produce their own unique miniatures from tarp off-cuts. Now converted into a tarpaulin distribution center, the premises stock around 1,100 recycled, one-off bags made from used truck tarps. And just so visitors to the Kyoto store never forget the origin of every unique specimen, a highway-life-size mural of a truck dominates the outside of the newly opened shop.
*** Author: Sofia Lekka Angelopoulou
*** Source: https://www.designboom.com/architecture/freitag-store-kyoto-diy-workshop-industrial-01-10-2020/
*** Source of Pics: All images by Daici Ano unless stated otherwise, the last one is by Corsin Zarn
