The interior design of Apple’s retail stores seems to be increasingly bleeding over into the reseller segment, as demonstrated by an Boutique iStore in the Montreal (Canada) suburb of Westmount, southwest of city center. The narrow store has wooden display tables, white walls, frosted-glass section partitions and other features taken from Apple’s architectural designs. Check these photos of the iStore and compare the features.
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Guzzlechuck
January 11, 2008 at 8:05 am
Matt Fellers
January 11, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Brian Kaemepn
January 11, 2008 at 10:56 pm
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If you think those resellers are copying Apple retail, check out this imitator: http://erieapplestore.com/
Can you say ‘cease and desist?’ [IFO -- Ouch! The back-lit wall graphics are hurting my eyes!]
Retail stores that copy Apple stores are nothing new. I saw a store in a Hong Kong mall 2 years ago that looked almost exactly like an Apple store.
With the exception of the Abt Electronics store in Illinois, aren’t all the furnishings for Apple Resellers coming from Apple? I know Abt built their tables that look just like Apple’s, but the wall graphics and such still come from Cupertino, so why not everything else?
-Brian