Interior design is key to expressing the brand experience

Interior design is key to expressing the brand experience

The design for Picnic Food’s first street-front shop had to reference previous iterations, in subterranean concourses, in a refreshed experience.

Interior Designers: Ashley Rumsey, ARIDO; Stanley Sun, ARIDO

Design Firm: Mason Studio

Design Team: Marti Hawkins, Intern ARIDO

With more expansion in mind, an adaptable design needed features that would be both easily replicable as well as physically identifiable as key symbols of the brand experience. Repeated linear woven wood textures recall textiles commonly associated with picnics and become an iconic design element for future locations. The communal dining table returns on a trestle base while the lime and watermelon brand colours are present via with greenery in terracotta pots.

Ashley Rumsey

More from this author

Ashley Rumsey

Mason Studio

view profile

Related

  • ARIDO Award: Elevator Cabs

    ARIDO Award: Elevator Cabs

    The challenge of this elevator cab redesign was to create a mobile portal between a well-aged ground floor lobby that would seamlessly integrate with each of the floors above. Category: DISTINCT Inter ...

  • ARIDO Award: The Hive

    ARIDO Award: The Hive

    The first of its kind in Canada, this 3D printed masonry wall is the result of a collaboration between design professionals, students, and faculty at an Ontario university. Category: CRAFT Interior De ...

  • ARIDO Award: Florette Restaurant + Bar

    ARIDO Award: Florette Restaurant + Bar

    While interior designers traditionally aim for perfection in their projects, this design team chose to highlight the imperfect, comforting aspects of this new restaurant space on Toronto’s Queen Str ...