BROMPTON ROAD OPENING
270 Brompton Road, SW3 2AW
SKITSCH, the contemporary design brand that launched in Milan in 2009, has opened a new shop in the Brompton Design District in the former Issey Miyake shop at 270 Brompton Road.
The London shop will showcase a sample of the products from SKITSCH’s new collection. The creative team has expanded to include Peter Marigold, Jean Marie Massaud, Luca Nichetto (an up–and–coming designer who recently held a personal show in Stockholm), Marcel Wanders, and the young French collective, 5.5.
SKITSCH offers a wide variety of products and designs, from the core pieces such as Woodstock, the modular sofa by Massaud, and the formal elegance of the Alle seat by Luca Nichetto, to playful ideas, like the Fire lamp by 5.5. and the experimental work of Marc Sadler, creator of — among other things — the Sack sofa, who built the innovative ecological chair Madeira.
Architect Luca Bombassei from Studio Blast Architetti has designed the new store and has chosen natural materials with tactile properties, which echo the properties of the flagship Milan showroom: sawed natural wood floors, rough concrete surfaces, glass shelves supported by iron girders, white walls and one feature colour — Skitsch blue. The pieces, like on a white canvas, come alive in a variety of forms and colours.