A Compact Store with a Huge Message!

Winning hearts in Melbourne, the LeTao cheesecake brand makes its Western debut with K.Holland Architectural Interiors translating the essence of Japanese design for Australian consumption. Built across a 50-square-metre footprint, the compact LeTAO cheesecake store manifests an important design lesson – one of positive globalisation. “It is our responsibility as designers to translate brands between diverse cultures and make them accessible the world over,” says the principal designer, who dives deep into the ethos of Japanese design to extract its core values and design what the Australians recognise as ‘Japanese’, without reducing it to a gimmick. Conceptually, the flagship store […]