Khaite Galleria
Seoul, South Korea
Role: Design Architect, in collaboration with Griffin Frazen
You enter through a steel-framed portal. The floor softens beneath you. Deep blue carpet underfoot, silent and dense.
Straight ahead, a curved wall of blackened steel rises from the floor and disappears into the ceiling. It blocks your path completely. You’re forced to choose: left or right.
Both routes lead past curved hang bars and into the rear of the store, where a single horizontal shelf is carved into the wall. Soft light hovers just above.
Turn around and you see it. The inside of the steel curve. It forms a circular space beneath a perfectly diffused white disk of light. The curve now holds a hang bar, and the light above flattens shadow into atmosphere.
Off to the side are two fitting rooms. Step inside and the palette shifts completely. Red carpet, red lacquer, mirrored wall. Each small room becomes pure color and reflection.
The space moves quietly but with force. It pulls you in, then opens into stillness.
