Oficina Penades designs and fabricates entire shop for Camper with their own hands

Oficina Penades, a Spanish industrial design studio, rose to the challenge of designing a new Camper shop in Malaga. Camper is a well-known footwear brand from the island of Mallorca, Spain.

“The first meeting we had with the camper team was in a warehouse in Binissalem, a small village in the center of Mallorca. Mainly used as a storage space for old Camper shops that have been refurbished and updated, it also works as a sort of archive with custom-made pieces from Michele de Lucchi, Gaetano Pesce, Ingo Maurer, the Bouroullec Brothers or Konstantin Grcic. Immediately after entering we felt absolutely drawn to this place and proposed a risky idea: “what if we use this space as a temporary factory and we self-produce the entire shop from here?” We moved to Mallorca in the summer of 2019. Using just 3 basic elements – perforated metal profiles, corner plates and bolts/nuts – we designed and fabricated all the necessary elements for the store: from product display shelves and tables to different seating units, lighting, checkout counter, brand logos and as a bonus: a typography. As part of the camper together project, this is the first time in the history of the company that someone is allowed to design and fabricate an entire shop with his own hands,” explains Jorge Penadés, founder of Oficina Penades

• Location: Malaga, Spain
• Date completed: 2020
• Size: 1,937 square feet
• Design: Oficina Penades
• Photos: José Hevia