Architectural and Immersive Experiences

Beauty Retail Store Design

Location: New York City & beyond

Design and Photography: Schoolhouse, philosophy

L'Occitane flatiron flagship store consultation area, featuring a round table with individual sinks, a large wall digital screen, and a wall collage installation with L'Occitane skincare tubes in various colors

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 store interior, featuring black and wood shelving and a central wood display table with a marble top
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
Caudalie retail fixtures rendering in wood, black metal, and marble 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 veteran 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 floor plan of a store, showing plan views of freestanding product display fixtures and callout annotations
Axonometric rendered views of multiple store layouts, from large to small size
Axonometric rendered view of a product display fixture with callout annotations

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