Loewe, the Spanish luxury fashion house, opened a new store in Houston at River Oaks District on Sunday, on the heels of new stores opening in Bal Harbour, Fla., and Boston last month.
The 2,056-square-foot Houston store offers the full collection of women’s ready-to-wear, bags, shoes, small leather goods, sunglasses, home scents, and other accessories.
The store follows creative director Jonathan Anderson’s Casa Loewe concept by elevating the retail experience with the personal touch of an art collector’s home. There is an earthy, grounding color palette of pink, brown, white and blue ceramic tiles across the store’s exterior and interior. Brass, oak wood, marble and concrete accents anchor the environment in natural materials.
Among the furniture, Utrecht armchairs and wooden Nakashima chairs sit alongside an Axel Vervoordt table, marble podiums and ceramic vessels. Bespoke wool rugs feature reproductions of British textile artist John Allen’s agrarian landscapes “White Horse With River” and “Purple Road Lake,” creating a tranquil environment.
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Pieces from Loewe’s art collection are situated throughout the store. British master potter Edmund de Waal’s ceramics contain slight irregularities and are expected to initiate conversations between tradition and modernity. Iranian-born, German-based painter Behrang Karimi’s on linen “Gardening at Night” depicts an energetic fragment of time, inviting extended viewers as colors muddy and metamorphize. There are also two botanical pencil sketches of the natural world from British painter Eliot Hodgkin.
Last last month, Loewe opened a store in Bal Harbour, located in Bal Harbour Shops in Miami Beach. The 2,077-square-foot store also features the full offering of women’s ready-to-wear, bags, shoes, sunglasses, small leather goods and other accessories. On June 17, Loewe opened a store in Boston at Copley Place.
The Bal Harbour shop, which is women’s only, also takes its cue from Anderson’s Casa Loewe concept. A ceramic facade greets customers, with a Miami-inspired palette of tiles in green, aquamarine and coral recurring throughout the interior. The tiles are handmade and enameled. Other materials are poured concrete and veiled marble, with additional fittings in oak, brass and turned iron.
Among the furniture are Gerrit Thomas Rietveld’s iconic Utrecht armchairs and a series of Berin Club chairs upholstered in custom felt. There are also iron martini tables, marble podiums, a low-back terrazzo table and a tufted leather puffer bench. Hand-selected pieces from Loewe’s global anthology of art, craft and design adorn the walls.
