Santiago, Chile — Valenzuela Arquitectos
Developed as part of the interior design team at Valenzuela Arquitectos, this retail project for NUKNU explored the integration of spatial branding, lighting design and furniture language into a unified boutique experience. Inspired by the brand’s warm minimalist identity and emphasis on noble materials and knit textures, the project focused on creating a calm, tactile and contemporary retail atmosphere through controlled lighting, organic forms and material coherence.
The role involved the aesthetic direction and homogenization of the space, leading the lighting design strategy while collaborating in furniture development, spatial composition and branding application throughout the store. A custom chandelier system was designed specifically for the project, featuring suspended blown-glass pendants illuminated through warm G4 LED sources connected with transparent speaker cables, creating a floating atmospheric centerpiece integrated into the architectural language of the store.
The project was developed and built for two different retail locations in Santiago, adapting the same visual identity and chandelier system into distinct spatial proportions and furniture distributions while maintaining a consistent architectural and atmospheric language across both stores.
