RK Apothecary by The Los Angeles Design Group

Los Angeles Design Group have created an interior design for RK Apothecary, a store that sells bath and body products. The RK Apothecary space before the redesign was small and dense with structural and mechanical elements that could not be altered.

The LADGs design had to respond to the existing interior because the client did not have the luxury of gutting it and beginning fresh. The pods have anatomic similarities to the humble strawberry, whose “exterior gives little clue to the structural nature of its interior.


” The amorphous white, ridged objects are teasingly sliced at certain points to reveal their blood-red, exotic interiors, lit by a single bulb. LADG also experimented with the idea by using water filled ice bags, intrigued by the way they “slumped, folded and wallowed around obstacles.” The pods’ fluid forms are a stark contrast to the sharp angles and hard concrete surfaces of the existing store.

Designers Andrew Holder and Benajmin Freyinger drew inspiration from still-life paintings by Caravaggio and Rubens.

They say“ these artists used fruit as sumptuous, scene-setting devices in exactly the way we hoped to deploy our to present product in the store. In that sense, the outré fruit is set afloat inside the environment and piled with tempting objects to browse.”

Los Angeles Design Group