The small store has many qualities, including light, geometry - the combination of street grid and angle of the structure and facade - and texture. The last quality is evident in the variety of concrete work - smooth floors and rough, undulating precast panels - and their contrast with wood slats, both inside and outside, and a parallelogram-shaped wood drawer wall.

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Max Mara Soho....New York, New York