Architectural and Immersive Experiences

Beauty Retail Store Design

Location: New York City & beyond

Design and Photography: Schoolhouse, Guild, philosophy

L'Occitane store interior featuring a round consultation table with built-in sinks, a colorful product display wall, a digital screen, and pink and yellow ribbons suspended from the ceiling

Beauty retail store and fixture design across multiple store formats, configurations, and locations

Roles on Projects

Store & Event Design

Lili has designed retail stores for beauty in various store formats: independent, shop-in-shop, travel retail, etc., as well as pop-up events.

Having worked with brands both in-house and with agencies, Lili understands the intricacies of beauty stores, from brand and marketing guidelines, to customer experience, to local market physical requirements.

Lili has extensive experience producing test fits and iterative layouts, adapting designs to different store formats, specifying finishes and furniture, and coordinating with vendors, farbicators, and other stakeholders.

Caudalie skincare store featuring light wood, black metal, and white marble finishes
philosophy skincare store fixtures in white laminate and copper metal finishes
philosophy pop-up event featuring a long white product demo table with black stools, and a photo moment with oversized-letter words typical of the philosophy brand, such as "hope" and "miracle"

Visual Merchandising, Planogramming & 3D Visualization

Beauty stores are ultimately about the customer having an exceptional experience with the product. How the product is laid out and presented hugely impacts how the customer will approach the display. Through iterative design, 3D visualizations, and product planogramming, Lili has worked with brands on creating visual merchandising solutions that fulfill customer experience, marketing, and business requirements.

Software used: Sketchup, V-Ray, Enscape, Keyshot, Illustrator, Photoshop.

rendering for a philosophy shop-in-shop, featuring white, black, and copper finishes
rendering of a philosophy department store gondola featuring white, black, and copper finishes
rendering of a pop-up booth for Dr. Deniss Gross, featuring blue and orange wall graphics, white product demo tables, and a free-standing digital screen

Retail Design Guidelines

As a veteral retail designer, Lili also has experience developing, maintaining, and distributing guidelines for retail store design for various store formats.

Fixtures: design, design intent documentation drawings, fabricator coordination during prototyping and production phases.

Finishes: specification, samples procurement and distribution to respective store managers.

Coordination: working with local markets to find optimal matches to finish specifications based on control samples and local availability.

rendered plan view of a store with callouts for each product display fixture
An overview page of various store formats: independent stores, corner, island, and corridor layouts, as well as kiosk
rendered isometric drawing of a store fixture in white, wood, black metal, and chrome finishes, with dimensions and callouts to various finishes and components

Other PRojects

Bank Retail Branch

Hospitality area of a high end bank with brown and gray furniture and black and gold metal finishes

Jackie Robinson Museum

Interactive multimedia exhibit at the Jackie Robinson Museum, consisting of a scale model of Ebbets Field and large digital canvas