Project name/title:  LESTRANGE Coal Drops Yard
Location: King’s Cross, London
Design practices: Fred Rigby Studio / Oliver Heath Design

LESTRANGE co-founders Tom Horne and Will Green enlisted biophilic design specialists Oliver Heath Design to provide a blueprint for a reimagined retail experience specially curated for LESTRANGE customers. The duo chose to commission British designer Fred Rigby, a longstanding collaborator of the menswear brand, to bring LESTRANGE’s biophilic vision to life and design the store.

Appealing to the sensory experience at every touchpoint, biophilic elements extend from the lighting to materiality and even the audio experience of the space. Wood from felled from London Planes trees, has been repurposed to partition the space and cocoons The Meadow.  Conceived by award-winning garden designer Lottie Delamain, The Meadow is a curation of dried blooms and grasses of fibre and flax used in apparel.

The Island, constructed from London Planes, has a countertop made from recycled plastic yoghurt pots by start-up Smile Plastics, seamlessly housing the cash desk. While wall finishes by Clayworks’ (exhibited) blend unfired clays which, when mixed with minerals and pigments, create one of the most sustainable plasters available.