One client. Two environments. A customer-facing retail experience connected to the operational infrastructure required to support a growing business.
Bon Bon began as a highly curated candy shop on Lexington Avenue, where architecture, millwork, lighting and branding were developed as one retail experience.
After completion, the same client engaged Paper Plane Architecture for a separate warehouse renovation supporting storage, distribution and day-to-day operations.
The narrow Manhattan storefront is organized as a warm, immersive retail room. Full-height custom wood displays frame the customer path, integrated lighting makes the merchandise part of the architecture, and the pink storefront creates an unmistakable street presence.
The second project shifts almost completely in character. Instead of customer intimacy and visual merchandising, the warehouse is about capacity, clarity, movement and efficient operations. The contrast is the story.
The warehouse strips the design language back to what the operation needs: organized storage, generous working aisles, durable finishes, a clean loading environment and carefully defined customer/support areas.
The value of the project is not decorative. It is the ability of the space to make the business work better.
Together, the projects show a broader kind of commercial practice: the ability to create a memorable front-of-house environment and then solve the pragmatic infrastructure that lets the same business scale behind the scenes.