How do you rethink the retail experience and invigorate the otherwise transactional process of material shopping?
This is what the team at Park + Associates asked themselves when they first started on the project to expand Hafary Gallery.
An industry leader in building materials, Hafary carries the largest collection of surfacing materials in Singapore, with the large-format porcelain slab – spanning up to 3.2m in length – as its latest offering.
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