Cherryflava

Coffee shop which pops out at the touch of a button

Posted on 11. Oct, 2007 by Jonathan Cherry in Advertising

We’re big fans of the growing global business trend of pop up retail.
Here in South Africa, spaza shops and hair salons have been housed in shipping containers in the townships for decades, but the trend now is for serious retail business to set up in brilliantly designed shipping containers decked out with electricity supply and custom built interiors.

This is the pop up shop which coffee brand Illy will be setting up in New York later on this year.

Designed by Adam Kalkin, it’s a push button concept that transforms a metal shipping container into a fully furnished space with the press of a button,

With shop rentals in a city like Cape Town reaching massive barrier to entry levels – the concept of the pop up store is a big entrepreneurial opportunity just waiting to be unleashed.

See: Adam Kalkin’s other work – Architecture and Hygiene

Previously: World cup retail box – Cherryflava
The rise of bite-sized – Cherryflava

[via thecoolhunter and PSFK]