Mixed Media
by Edie Cohen -- Interior Design, 4/1/2008
NOKA Chocolate offers its sinful delights in diminutive stainless-steel boxes, like precious baubles. The brand's tiny Dallas shop by the Shimoda Design Group is equally exquisite. At only 500 square feet, the tall, narrow space inspired principal Joey Shimoda to honor chocolate's ingredients in a big way.
"We distilled the project down to its purest parts," he says. MDF paneling gives a nod to the cacao bean's dark, textured pod. Representing water is an 8-foot-long clear teardrop of a handblown pendant fixture.
Stainless signage matches NOKA's packaging, while a glass-topped marble display case and ceramic floor tile keep the atmosphere cool. Soaring above it all is a 12-foot-high drywall arc—a hint of the chapel, for those who come to worship at the altar of chocolate.
Mixed Media- Danilo De Rossi's handblown Murano glass Glòpendant fixture for Leucos. 732-225-0010; leucos.com.
- Interlam's 10-by-12-inch wall panel of CNC-milled MDF. 276-251-5300; interlam-design.com.
- One of the chocolatier's stainless-steel keepsake boxes, 6 inches square.
- Custom acrylic pedestals used to display chocolates individually or in groups.
- The display case's Volakas marble cladding from Gem International. 888-503-8919; gem-international.net.
- A 2-by-4-foot ceramic floor tile by Royal Mosa. 31-43-368-93-78; royalmosa.com.
- Truffles and single-estate dark chocolates served on a glass tray designed for display beneath the Leucos fixture.
From left: The principal of the Shimoda Design Group. NOKA Chocolate's 500-square-foot Dallas shop.
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