Mendo is all about creative books. This is why books have been the starting point of our design. The result is a bookshop built by books. As a brick is the basis of a brickstone house our shopdesign is based on a plain, black MENDO-Book we designed. Entering the shop the client is surrounded by filigree bookshelfs made of cold worked steal filled up with the black MENDO-Books. In some spots the MENDO-Books are replaced by the books which are to be sold in the shop. These display spaces create colorful gaps within the black MENDO-Book walls. This effect and the use of adjustable spot lights draw extra attention to the books to sell. The positions and the amount of gaps is flexible and therefore ever changing. The modern art which is also sold at Mendo is hung on the upper edge of the bookshelves using the black MENDO-Books as its background. At the end of the bookshelves which run along the whole length of the shop we placed a mirror wall which optically doubles the length of the shelves and of the entire shop.
In the center of the shop we placed smaller bookshelves which are “fallen over”. As their vertical counterpart they are used as displays for the books. Besides this they form little islands in the shop where the client is invited to sit down, have a closer look on the books, listening to music or just relax. The chrome Bolster lamps which hang above each island create extra intimacy.
