SNnl05_Feb06_Paris Gallery_engl arab.indd - Umdasch Shopfitting
SNnl05_Feb06_Paris Gallery_engl arab.indd - Umdasch Shopfitting
SNnl05_Feb06_Paris Gallery_engl arab.indd - Umdasch Shopfitting
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F e b r u a r y 2 0 0 6 n e w s l e t t e r 0 5<br />
<strong>Paris</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong><br />
Ibn Battuta Mall, Dubai<br />
Client . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />
Project location . . . . .<br />
Client address . . . . . .<br />
Line of business . . . .<br />
Sales area . . . . . . . . .<br />
Opening date . . . . . . .<br />
<strong>Paris</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong><br />
Ibn Battuta Mall, Dubai, UAE<br />
Golden Tower, Sharjah<br />
Perfumery, Cosmetics, Watches, Accessoires<br />
6,000 sqm<br />
September 2005<br />
Architecture &<br />
Concept, Design . . . .<br />
Shop fitting<br />
contractor . . . . . . . . . .<br />
Portland Design, London<br />
<strong>Umdasch</strong> Shop-Concept<br />
Further information . . <strong>Umdasch</strong> Shop-Concept ME, Dubai, UAE<br />
Contact . . . . . . . . . . . uscme@umdasch.com<br />
Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . +971 4 361 84 62<br />
ME: <strong>Umdasch</strong> Shop-Concept, Emaar Business Park, Bldg. 4 / Office No. 614,<br />
P. O. Box 182774, Dubai, UAE, Phone +971 4 361 84 62, Mail: uscme@umdasch.com<br />
Headquarters: <strong>Umdasch</strong> Shop-Concept GmbH, A-3300 Amstetten/Austria, Reichsstrasse 23,<br />
Phone +43 7472 605-0, Mail: usca@umdasch.com<br />
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High-profile cosmetics provide the second main sales area in addition to watches and jewellery.<br />
The individual departments are situated in<br />
the ‘treasure houses’ within the niches.<br />
<strong>Paris</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong>, Dubai<br />
The “treasure houses” of<br />
the Ibn Battuta Mall<br />
The Austrian shopfitters <strong>Umdasch</strong> Shop-Concept have just been awarded<br />
the contract to provide the shopfitting of four luxury stores for <strong>Paris</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong><br />
in the United Arab Emirates. We therefore visited the Las Vegas of the<br />
East, as Dubai is often called because of its cornucopia of tourism and<br />
shopping facilities, in order to take a closer look at the <strong>Paris</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong> in the<br />
Ibn Battuta Mall, which opened in autumn 2005.<br />
The continuing boom in shopping malls is just one of the reasons why <strong>Umdasch</strong><br />
Shop-Concept has established a sales office in Dubai, which will now be<br />
expanded to keep pace with market developments. The <strong>Paris</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong> contract<br />
stands out amongst a number of current projects. Across a sales area totalling<br />
35,000 m², a total of four projects are to be realised in Dubai and Abu Dhabi<br />
in accordance with the planning concept drawn up by Portland Design. In the<br />
case of the <strong>Paris</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong>, the clients are one of the leading trading companies<br />
in the region, a member of the Al Fahim Group. The shops are luxury stores<br />
with exclusive international brands at some 20 locations to date. The emphasis<br />
lies on cosmetics, watches and jewellery, top-quality accessories and, increasingly,<br />
fashion.<br />
The first store to be fitted out by <strong>Umdasch</strong> Shop-Concept has just opened in<br />
the Ibn Battuta Mall. The latter is a shopping centre designed for family shopping.<br />
It comprises some 235 stores; no fewer than 70 international brands celebrated<br />
their entry into the Dubai market here. The <strong>Paris</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong> covers an<br />
area of 6,000 m² and attracts customers with a mixture of oriental exoticism,<br />
spacious design and modern presentation of goods. The sales areas are linked<br />
by a mall lined with shop windows. To the right and left are niches containing<br />
the various departments in the form of ‘treasure houses’. The shopfitting is of<br />
the highest quality, in line with the goods on offer, and consists of vitrines and<br />
glass display tables with elegant surfaces. The experts from <strong>Umdasch</strong> in the<br />
project management and construction departments could demonstrate their<br />
professionalism and skills to the full. Lighting played an important role in the<br />
overall concept. A ‘starry sky’ provides the background lighting, whilst the indirect<br />
lighting in the shelving areas sets dramatic accents, and the focused light<br />
in the vitrines presents the exclusive goods on display to best advantage.<br />
<strong>Umdasch</strong> branch manager Christian Kronsteiner and his project team in<br />
Dubai are currently working hard to complete three further stores for <strong>Paris</strong><br />
<strong>Gallery</strong>, two of which are in Abu Dhabi. But <strong>Umdasch</strong> also has plenty of other<br />
work to do in the Middle East, as the list of other projects shows. Particularly<br />
eye-catching is the largest indoor ski slope in the world, set in the vast ‘Mall<br />
of the Emirates’. Here, <strong>Umdasch</strong> was responsible for the shopfitting of the<br />
sports shop ‘Snow Pro’.
The oriental character of the project is underlined by the architecture.
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Headquarters: <strong>Umdasch</strong> Shop-Concept GmbH, A-3300 Amstetten/Austria, Reichsstrasse 23,<br />
Phone +43 7472 605-0, Mail: usca@umdasch.com<br />
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