Foreword
The Tandor shop, with its new face on South Shiraz Street, opened around eight months ago. This clothing producer (after twenty-five years) has only recently turned its attention to the interior design and the decoration of its shops and new branches.
Space and inner organisation
A wooden door, together with the sign above the entrance, forms a narrow opening on the line of the street; a stone staircase immediately leads you down inside. There is no shop window around the entrance — everything happens below the level of the street.
The entrance staircase, from the start, divides the space visually into two parts: the area in front of the staircase, set aside for the clothing cabinets, the counters, and the meeting between salesperson and customer; and the area behind the staircase, where the fitting rooms are placed, with a mirror-wall between them.
The deepest part of the shop is separated from the main space by a column and a level change. Besides ordinary activity, this part holds the manager's desk, benches for visitors, and the stores.
Light and materials
Daylight enters the space through skylights placed at the deepest end of the shop, above the manager's desk. Benches for visitors to rest on are distributed in the corners of the shop along the length of the space.
The walls are a fine combination of wood and brick that produces an intimate space, which the use of glazed dividers and the matte metal columns make a little more modern. As a whole — apart from the floor's granite — the materials are well chosen and stand together in a suitable composition.
Summing-up
The shop's space has an ordered, organised, logical appearance, far from luxury, and the design steers clear of excessive display. Tandor was designed by Mr Hozouri (the shop's manager) with the consultation and counsel of a number of architects.
