BEHIND THE BUILD: THE MAKINGS OF WARRINGAH

You didn’t think we’d forget to spill the beans on our Warringah Store, did you? Forgive us, we meant to do it sooner, but as the saying goes, ‘better late than never’. 

It’s likely you’ve seen, read about, and visited our Bondi Store, but that wasn’t all we did to round out 2023. While you weren’t looking, we also (quietly) opened a second space for sartorial Sydney-siders who live over the bridge in the sweet Northern Beaches neighbourhood of Warringah. Go figure. 

Working with our Bondi stores Interior Designer Brahman Perera (Brem) in collaboration with Madeline Dwyer and Mikaela Walker from Tous Studios on this project (our fifth with Tous in total), our Warringah home stands as the perfect example of achieving more with less. It might be small, but boy, is it mighty.  

Warringah’s stand out design feature is, without a doubt, the monolithic floating glass table, which serves a dual purpose as a place to engage and makes for a visually striking centerpiece. A little like a kitchen island bench – the heart of the home – this innovative two-in-one design fosters connections between our customers and team, providing an opportunity to engage with our brand ethos through conversation and display. Two things we consider integral to enhancing the DISSH experience.  

Continuity plays a role here too. Our stores – our world – help anyone who steps into it understand who we are, what we do, and why we do it. With the help of Brem and Tous Studios, we brought to life a store with key elements that mirror Brem’s design for Bondi. Things like ombre curtains and micro-cement flooring were carried over to maintain continuity, while functional adjustments were made to features like racking and joinery items. In short, the aim remained to blend the essence of Bondi throughout. Anyone who’s been to both will see the resemblance.  

The new take on the dramatic, almost cylindrical fitting rooms is also worth a few lines. A wave-like effect created with the curtains adds a unique and visually engaging dimension to the space that connects the stores to one another and the beachy suburbs they’re based in.

Its gallery-like ambience where traffic circulates around the focal centerpiece and the collection hangs proudly along the perimeter above cement flooring has helped give Warringah an open-air feel. Spanning only 90 sqm – just slightly bigger than Noosa at 80 sqm – our objective was to fashion a simplified version of Bondi that suits the relaxed and laidback attitudes of the Northern Beaches. What can we say? We’re drawn to the sea.