A former banking office in the Swedish capital – an anonymous institutional building located in the city center – became world-famous in 1973 thanks to an armed heist and hostage crisis that triggered in the victims a psychological reaction later called the Stockholm syndrome. Successive renovations carried out by various occupants spoiled the building’s original configuration, and this latest intervention has sought to revive the splendor of the solid neoclassical architecture that is so much a hallmark of early 20th-century ‘temples of money.’

The new flagship store of the fashion and trendy-accessories label has brought back the Ekeberg marble tile flooring of before while upgrading the massive Doric columns that once chained together the old banking halls, which have been redone in imitation marble in the rear part of the shop to mark a new area for fitting rooms. Finally, a grid of metal luminaires fastened to the ceiling and a number of display surfaces made of resin but given a marble-like finish have the effect of mirroring the gravitas of the sumptuous backdrop.