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L’OCCITANE OPENS WORLD-FIRST
GREEN STORE CONCEPT PARFOIS ADDS NEW CONCEPT
The Portuguese fashion and accessories brand
has inaugurated a flagship store in Lisbon’s
L’Occitane’s world-first Green Store is set Amoreiras Shopping Centre. The brand’s new
to open its doors to the public in Australia flagship boasts an area of 127sq m, and houses a
as part of the Hong Kong-listed company’s minimalist and luminous design that is executed
sustainability program. through premium materials. The opening is part
L’Occitane Green Store has been built of the brand’s ongoing expansion plan.
in the space of its Westfield Bondi Junction
store in Sydney in partnership with the
Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA). BESSON LAUNCHES IN MADRID
The Refill Fountain has been added to the The French-based footwear brand has chose
new boutique, allowing customers to refill Madrid, Spain to launch its first store outside of
their favourite products in the 100-per-cent its home territory. Becoming the largest footwear
recyclable aluminium ‘forever bottles’. store in the Madrid region, the new Besson is
A living green wall with a fully integrated situated in the Parquesur and will boast an area
irrigation system acts as a natural air filter of more than 1,200sq m and host 11 employees.
with the plants helping to metabolise toxins in
the air, while simultaneously releasing oxygen.
Meanwhile the physical build of the boutique NEW HOTEL BRAND TO OPEN
was undertaken with Site-Box Projects. Deutsche Hospitality and the Porsche Design
Group are joining forces to present the
THE REYKJAVIK EDITION PREPARES Steigenberger Porsche Design Hotels brand, an
FOR ITS GRAND OPENING innovative hotel concept in the luxury lifestyle
segment. The new concept will bring together
design, technology and lifestyle at the highest level.
A flourishing culinary hotspot with cool appearing on the flooring, which has been
cafés, a rollicking nightlife and an epic music laid with an intricate pattern inspired
scene, the spotlight is shining brightly on by Icelandic geometry, and a standout BEC + BRIDGE ADDS NEW SITES
Iceland’s hip capital city with the arrival of sculptural reception desk. Contemporary womenswear label Bec + Bridge
the Reykjavik EDITION. Accessible from the lobby, the ground is accelerating its expansion plan in the country
Opening in preview on 9 November, floor is home to Tides, the signature with the opening of four new stores, including its
The Reykjavik EDITION will set a new restaurant with private dining room, and first WA location. The launch of the new stores
standard as the city’s first truly luxury café with homemade baked goods, and Tölt, will be completed by the end of November,
hotel experience, combining the best of an intimate bar that takes its cues from The bringing the store count in the country to 11.
the Icelandic capital with the personal, London EDITION’s award-winning Punch
intimate and individual experience that the Room. Tides, which has an outdoor terrace
EDITION brand is known for. The result is and its own waterfront entrance, is helmed WAHLBURGERS TO OPEN IN OZ
a vibrant and sophisticated urban hub with by Gunnar Karl Gíslason. Hollywood star Mark Wahlberg’s famed
253 rooms, an outstanding line-up of bars, Set to be a destination of its own, The burger chain Wahlburgers will open its first
signature restaurant and nightclub and, in Roof is located on the hotel’s 7th floor and Australian store in Circular Quay, Sydney
true EDITION style, the introduction of a will be a versatile space that can be divided before Christmas 2021. The restaurant will be
new kind of modern social wellness concept. by a glass door for private events that located at 7 Macquarie Street, Opera Quays,
As with all EDITION hotels, the lobby is allows it to be the best place from which to will be able to seat 250 guests, and is expected
a dynamic, social space that subtly reveals a enjoy the endless bright summer evenings to employ 65 workers.
sense of place and sense of time. Here, basalt as well as the magical Northern Lights in the
stone – or volcanic rock – is prominent, colder months.

CENTRE GROWS
ITS RETAIL OFFER

Sponda has secured a number of new retailers
for Ratina shopping centre in Tampere. This
coincides with an increase in footfall and sales at
the shopping centre, indicating a retail recovery
is underway.
Among the latest signings are Synlab and Pikseli
Arcade, which will open their stores at Ratina in
the next few months. Other retailers including
Specsavers, Beer Shop & Bar Kuja, Normal,
Kustom Furniture, More Tea, Aava, Pikkujatti and
Tampinkoski Bar & Kitchen have already joined
the shopping centre roster.

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