Spanning nearly 1,000 square meters, Ferragamo’s Boutique in Chengdu IFS has been crafted according to the brand’s latest retail visual identity. A perfect blend of creativity and craftsmanship, the boutique offers guests a refined, exclusive shopping experience infused with modern Italian flair.

This is our fourth store designed for Ferragamo after the opening of Beijing, Las Vegas and Milan. The boutique inside the mall is divided on two floors, occupying a corner location adjacent to one of the main entrances. The façade runs its entire length and rises all the way to the upper level, creating a striking architectural effect. Drawing from Ferragamo’s strong heritage in Florence, the “Bugnato” pattern, an architectural element closely associated with the Tuscan city, was selected for the façade’s design.

At street level and along the pedestrian walkway, the design offers full visibility into the store, allowing the interior space and products to take center stage so that passersby can fully appreciate the brand’s heritage and craftsmanship.

Moving to the boutique’s interior, the floor in Chambolle stone is perfectly complemented by custom-designed carpets in subdued tones. The boutique features panels in warm Chambolle, Calacatta veined marble, Green Ming and Napoleon Red marble. The stone panels are framed with delabré metal profiles, which enhance their material presence and add a refined architectural character. In order to enrich the project and bring movement to the display system, a series of niches has been introduced. These architectural elements have an intentionally museum-like quality, featuring back panels in selected special finishes, including ribbed plaster with resin and resin integrated with sand, further emphasizing texture, depth and the tactile dimension of the space.

Entire wall surfaces are clad in richly layered cork wallpaper - recalling Salvatore Ferragamo’s innovative use of the material for women’s footwear nearly a century ago – and are enhanced with glossy resin. Conceived as an architectural cladding, these panels form theatrical backdrops that frame and elevate the products, making them even more of a focal point within the space. Their presence also establishes a clear typological distinction from the other display systems, such as the stone panels and the museum-like niches, contributing to a layered and dynamically articulated spatial composition. Display shelves in Chambolle stone shift across the various backdrop treatments, from layered cork and resin to the textured stone and niche compositions, blending contemporary sophistication with artisanal refinement.

Special eye-catching elements that are key to the store’s interior include two tables completely adorned in sea blue ceramics, Aquario, designed by Andrea Mancuso/Analogia Project (designed under the supervision of Nilufar and its founder Nina Yashar) and a series of tables designed by Andrea Anastasio (edited by the Giustini/Stagetti Gallery, Rome), using leather string to “stitch together” the stone table tops, creating an effect of islands of color in the center of an immersive space.

Info: Ferragamo.com

Photos courtesy of Ferragamo

Publications:

China Daily, 11 November 2025

Jing Daily, 14 November 2025