Pulse Legacy Archive August 2012 | Page 44

Reimagining THE SPA RETAIL SPACE H ow should the spa retail space look? Should it be dressed up in seasonal colors of fall’s earthy browns or BY MAE MAÑACAP-JOHNSON summer’s nautical stripes? Should it come with multi-directional lights and 360-degree display shelves? Or perhaps, decked with a flat screen TV for an interactive in-store marketing experience? Whatever it may be, one thing is certain: today’s spa retail space needs to move away from the expected and boring. It needs, in many ways, to be reimagined with a well thought-out plan and design flow. Here, Pulse asks two design firms to render their vision on how a spa retail space should be. 42 PULSE ■ August 2012