Interconnected brass poles loop over hooks on the walls and ceiling this Beirut boutique by Lebanese architects Ghaith & Jad to form a suspended clothes rail.
Ghaith Abi Ghanem and Jad Melki of Ghaith & Jad designed the retail space for Starch – a non-profit organisation that supports emerging Lebanese designers.
"As architects doing an interior, we wanted to move away from the typical conception of a boutique and try to bring forth the identity of the foundation," the designers told Dezeen.
"We wanted to create a dynamic space that holds infinite identities, therefore the idea of creating non-static entities in the space came to exist," they said.
Ghaith & Jad installed a grid of 186 hooks across the ceiling and down the walls of the all-white interior.
Brass cubes with hollow, circular centres were screwed onto each end of 27 brass rods. These allowed the rods to be latched onto the hooks and each other, forming an interconnected clothing rail that can be regularly reconfigured.
"We took the basic hanger into a more spatial dimension that lead us to create structures from a single module, giving a three-dimensional web of hangers," said the designers.
"By that we achieved our objective of an ever-changing space through designing a tool that allows us to reconfigure its form and the display of clothes instantly," they added.
Clothes hangers can hung through small holes punctured in the brass rods, or over the tops of the rails.
Square-shaped pedestals have also been positioned beneath the rails, creating extra space for displaying folded clothes and other accessories.
A large bulbous light is strung on a length of rope in front of the store's rear wall, able to be raised or lowered via a pulley system of two balancing concrete weights. Additional spotlights allow light to be focused on specific areas or items.
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