SASU Palma is a Mediterranean extension of the company, moving from the winter cities of Austria to the sunny Spanish island of Mallorca. Working for the first time on a project in their backyard, anySCALE’s Mallorca office realized a modern design that retained the brand’s vintage touch, helping them to establish a foothold in this touristic hotspot.
SASU Palma is a corner store on the ground floor of a 5 story, 100-year-old building along Plaça Major, a historic public square and craft market. Similar to the Vienna project, anySCALE needed to work around inherited structures, in this case, an original steel column near the middle of a trapezoid-shaped layout. Instead of seeing this as a limitation, the designers used it to define the center of the space with a circular spotlighting system and decorative pendant lights. To accommodate SASU’s diverse products, anySCALE played with the type and density of custom-built, wood displays. Boxy shelves of different heights are built into the thickest backwall, while slender floating shelves are used on the thinner partition wall that hides the basement staircase. Rolling, free-standing displays can be positioned in the windows and around the column in the center, allowing for customer flow and flexibility.
The original flooring was painted a light grey, while a dark grey tone extends upwards to the height of the built-in shelves, on the partition wall, and spaces between the windows, creating a horizontal line. The neutral grey color palette complements the warm wooden shelves, achieving a vintage aesthetic that also gives off a fresh feeling. With the high ceilings and open space around the pillar, the small space is voluminous and dynamic, but also inviting.
anySCALE’s first completed project in Mallorca represents an exciting milestone for the company and a new adventure for the SASU brand.
