Norra Flagship
Project

Norra Flagship

Terracotta walls and iron-textured plinths, built in a nine-week programme.

Norra flagship store with terracotta stone walls
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Completed2024
PracticeNorrsken Arkitekter
Area supplied880 m²
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How it was done

The decisions behind it

A flagship store on a nine-week fit-out programme, which is the constraint that shaped every decision. Retail interiors are built fast and changed often, and the material choices here were made to take decisions off the site rather than to add them.

M06 Argilla runs full height on three walls and wraps the cash desk. The colour is a solid pigment rather than a fired-clay variation, so the walls read as one continuous surface instead of as an assembly of panels — which is what the scheme needed behind a display system that changes four times a year.

The plinths are T08 Ferro at 12 mm. They take the most abuse in the store, they get moved, and the through-body colour means a knocked corner shows the same dark grey-brown as the face. A plinth with a chipped white core is a plinth that gets replaced.

The shopfront reveal is also T08, at 20 mm, running from inside to outside across the threshold. It is the same batch as the internal plinths, which is why the transition works at dusk when the internal lighting takes over.

Iron-textured stone display plinths
Display plinths in T08
Terracotta stone wall behind a shopfront window at dusk
Terracotta wall at the shopfront
Nine weeks meant we could not detail our way out of anything. Fewer joints was the only lever we had.
Norrsken Arkitekter
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Finishes used

What is actually on the walls

Each one links to its own technical file. If you are matching an existing installation, the reference code is the thing to quote.

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