Interior Design April 2022 – 90th Anniversary

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JO NAGASAKA

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Designers have a natural tendency to imagine their work enduring far into the future. But for a 3,000-square-foot Camper store in Shanghai, Jo Nagasaka took the opposite approach. The Schemata Architects founder acknowledged that someday the shoe shop, which itself is in a redeveloped French settlement from the early 20th century, would be dismantled and replaced with something else. So, Nagasaka envisioned a space that would itself be “recyclable.” It’s Schemata’s second store for Camper, following one in Tokyo in 2017 that used imported cork and urethane rubber. But this three-level location embraces locally available plywood and cardboard made of repurposed Camper shoeboxes originally made with plant-based glue. Nagasaka was struck by the ease of recycling cardboard, which requires simply dissolving it in water and reshaping the pulp. “Something that we take for granted in our daily lives turned out to be an ideal material” he says. Turns out cardboard is anything but boring. —Wilson Barlow

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: BENIK/SCHEMATA ARCHITECTS (4); YURIKO TAKAGI

Clockwise from top right: Boxes of locally sourced plywood form the point-of-sale area at Camper Shanghai by Schemata Architects. The store opens to the street level of Hengshanfang, a former French settlement turned cultural center. Camper shoeboxes were soaked and dissolved into a paste and reshaped using molds. Display shelves are made from locally crafted steel mesh backed with recycled cardboard.

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INTERVENTION

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CONTACTS

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FLYING HIGH

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BOOKS

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THE NEXT WAVE

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BACK TO THE FUTURE

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HORSE SENSE

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PLAYING THE ANGLES

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COMING AROUND

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RARE BIRD

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FROM THE GROUND UP

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SUN WORSHIP

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X FACTORS

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MATERIAL UNIVERSE

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PULP FACT

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PARTITION PLAY

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SHIFT WORK

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OUT OF THIS WORLD

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UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

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AHEAD OF THE CURVE

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ON THE OBLIQUE

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pages 141-143

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WALTER GROPIUS

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pages 89-94

KATE MILLETT

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pages 81-88

CINI BOERI

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HEADLINERS

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ALGONQUIN HOTEL

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HERBERT BAYER

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LUDWIG MIES

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