GRAZIA KOREA
October 2015
INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE
GANGNAM WHAT?
By Mairi Beautyman. Photographs by Annabel Elston. April 2016
Sophie Hicks’s spare ACNE boutique in Seoul, South Korea, is the opposite of pop.
The Gangnam district of Seoul was single-handedly catapulted into the world’s consciousness by the horse-trot dance moves and universally catchy beat of Psy’s self-deprecating video for “Gangnam Style.” Four years later, this poke at the lavish lifestyle of the toniest district in the South Korean capital holds tight to its position as the most popular YouTube video of all time. Satire or no, style there certainly is in this luxury retail wonderland, home to boutiques for Chanel, Christian Dior, Gucci, Prada, Louis Vuitton, and more.
A glimpse of signage beckons shoppers down a side street near the river to find still another label, “The sensation of solitude is extremely rare this city of over 10 million” Sweden’s ACNE Studios. (That’s an acronym in English: Ambition to Create Novel Expressions.) ACNE creative director Jonny Johansson brought in Sophie Hicks Architects from London to design the freestanding building after admiring the firm’s worldwide Chloé boutiques, paneled in raw plywood. To set off ACNE’s bold, multicolored clothing for both women and men, statement pieces that Sophie Hicks calls “very punchy and, at the same time, forward-thinking,” she envisioned a two-story structure resembling a ghostly light box with “very little outward expression.”
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April 2018
LIVING – CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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By Paola Menaldo
Photographs by Adrian Gaut
June 2019
MUSE MAGAZINE
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By Marta Galli
Photographs by Timur Celikdag
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FRÄULEIN MAGAZINE
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By Aicha Reguieg
Photographs by David Fischer
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KINFOLK MAGAZINE
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By Pip Usher
Photographs by Marsý Hild Þórsdóttir
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ELLE DECOR ITALIA
LA POETICA DEL BIANCO
By Ana Cardinale
Photographs by Matthieu Salvaing
March 2009
ARCHITECTS’ JOURNAL
SOPHIE HICKS ARCHITECTS DESIGNS MINIMALIST CONCRETE HOUSE IN KENSINGTON
By Fran Williams
Photographs by Annabel Elston
February 2019
HARPER’S BAZAAR KOREA
SOPHIE, THE PURE ARCHITECT
Photographs Kim Hee June
Winter 2015
YAMAMOTO & YOHJI, RIZZOLI
EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK
Contribution by Sophie Hicks
Photographs by Milo Keller and Johannes Marburg
November 2014