PAVE: Gorgeous Bicycle Store in Barcelona Displays Bikes as Art
Posted By Laura K. Cowan On May 16, 2011 @ 9:05 am In Architecture,Green Transportation | 1 Comment
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Bike [5] shops are usually hole in the wall places with rows of purpose-built bikes hooked up to bike racks. Not this one. Javier Maya’s Pave [6] bicycle shop in Barcelona, which was designed by architect Joan Sandoval, has blurred the line between bike shop and art gallery [7] by installing bikes in clean, back-lit displays in a modern shop with the look of a designer boutique [8].
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A collage of bike wheels adorns two walls flanking the entrance. The floor is a combination of sealed concrete and European-style paving stones. A sunken waiting room features reading material and a flat-screen TV. The walls are purple, even in the back, where wrenches are neatly hung above a steel workbench. In short, not what you would expect from a mean, green [10] bike shop. What do you think of this new bike shop as boutique concept? Would you be more or less likely to shop in a store like Pave?
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Via Gizmodo [11]
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