Retail
Aspen, Colorado

2025

Modern retail interior with light green tiled floor and features, cork walls, an angled ceiling with linear lights, a red bench, and a cream outfit on a rack.

Concrete tiles form an indoor landscape in Aspen, a town where landscapes rule supreme.

Three folded blankets in pink, brown, and blue with "madhappy" tags and white stitching on a green tiled surface.

Green pavers are spread throughout the space, lifting and folding to create slopes, ridges, and plateaus — offering places to sit, browse, gather, or climb.

Black and white geometric art installation featuring a pyramid in a tiled floor, a standing ring, and a balanced cube. By Isamu Noguchi. Sunken Garden for Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Reference — Sunken Garden by Isamu Noguchi, 1960

Architectural floor plan with an irregular shape, showing shaded rooms and outlines of furniture like a sofa, tables, and a central diamond. Plan of Madhappy Store in Colorado.

The store is located in a visibly “added on” extension to a 1980s brick office building.

A white, glass-fronted boutique displaying clothes, with snow on the ground and a large brick building behind it. Madhappy Clothing brand store.

Cork wall tiles bring the materiality of the original building’s exterior down into the space, making the newly inserted terrain feel as though it sits against the outside of a building, instead of within one.

Two wood and cork floor-standing speakers against a cork wall, on a light green tiled floor with a curved tiled bench.

Custom furniture and fixtures populate the “landscape”.

Modern retail space with a large maroon bench, a clothing rack, textured brown cork walls, and a light green tiled floor.
Minimalist boutique with sage green tiled floor, a central pyramid, and clothes displayed on racks.

Referencing works by Isamu Noguchi, such as “Heaven” and “California Scenario”, the store is designed as a suggestion rather than a prescription. Instead of defining a fixed function, each element is part of a larger playscape, characterized by how it is used, and can change based on the person or product that uses it.