Camper Store at Paseo de Gracia in Barcelona

04Jul11

The name Camper has much to do with the Catalan term “campo” and means the countryside. The imagination was to think about shoes stepping on irregulas surfaces like stepping on the earth and to play while trying on the shoes in front of twisted mirrors, a bit like being in an amusment park. That is how whobby reflecting surfaces appeared in the project.

Camper shoes are built in Mallorca out of flat cutted leather sheets and put together they become beautiful tridimensional wrappings.

The furniture has been designed in a very similar way: Different Camper shoe forms were used- with hills, without hills, sneakers, boots or sandals, for men or for women. All flat profiles were put one next to the other and a volume appeared. The transfomation between the shoe profiles create benches, tables, surfaces and a lot of crazy mirrors.

Architect: Benedetta Tagliabue (EMBT)

Project Director: Karl Unglaub

Collaborators: Verena Vogler, Stefan Geenen, Gabriele Rotelli

Inauguration: November 2010