The Shoe shop in the grassy plain

"Please take off footwear here."

I intend to be comfortable if can turn around to see other articles not to change my clothes again after a try-on. Cannot walk about with underwear, but it is possible to walk barefoot.

They take off shoes and walk about in a shop. A site is a corner of a large floor of the big department store.

He looks for an article as a bare foot or socks and can try it on willingly. The floor is made of an artificial grassy plain, concrete and a stone pavement, and has slow ups and downs. They can try a feeling sports shoes, heels, and leather boots on the various grounds.

A sense of turf or stone coming to the tip of a foot is that we cannot usually feel because of being protected to shoes. He thinks about shoes always protect him while walking about in search of shoes. Sometime talk a store clerk about shoes while lying on turf.

"What will shoes be?" I want you to wear as possible a lot of shoes while thinking about such a thing.

Principal-in-charge : Fujino Takashi

Design : 2010.01

草 原 の 靴 屋 さ ん

「ここでは履物を脱いでください．」

お店で一度試着したあと，自分の服に戻らずに他の商品を見てまわれたら楽なのに…と思うことがある．実際に下着で歩き回ることは出来ないけれど，裸足で靴屋さんの中を散策することならできる．

ここは自分の靴を脱いで上がる靴屋さん．大きな百貨店の広いフロアの一角が対象敷地だ．

裸足やソックスのままで靴を見てまわり，気軽に商品を履ける．床は人工の草原やコンクリートや石畳で出来ていて緩やかな起伏が付いている．運動靴，ヒール，長靴などで，坂を歩いたり，いろんな地面での履き心地を試すことができる．

足先に感じる石畳や人工芝は，普段は靴に守られていて感じることのない踏み心地だ．靴を求めて歩き回りながら，いつも足を守ってくれている靴のことを思う．ときには，人工芝に寝転んで靴について店員さんと話してみる．

「靴って何だろう？」そんなことを考えながら，できるだけ沢山の靴を履いて貰いたい．

担当：藤野高志

設計期間：2010.01