Boutique Ralph & Russo

LASA VENA ORO as a symbol of glamour and beauty in the land of the sheikhs

In 2018, Lasa Marmo produced and supplied 160 m² of LASA VENA ORO slabs in 2 cm thickness for British haute couture house Ralph & Russo’s second flagship store in the Middle East. Opened in December 2018, the boutique is located in the Lagoona Mall, a fully modernised shopping centre featuring designer stores, restaurants and a cinema in Doha, the capital of the desert state of Qatar. The flagship store in the emirate on the Arabian Peninsula is also the largest boutique of the up-and-coming brand, which has been expanding since 2010, with Tamara Ralph as Creative Director and Michael Russo as Chairman and CEO.

The exclusive ready-to-wear collections, accessories and leather shoes and handbags by Ralph & Russo are aimed at fashion-conscious women. The Milan-based architecture firm Locatelli Partners, commissioned to design the new flagship store, opted for refined Laas marble in the LASA VENA ORO variety to showcase Ralph & Russo’s products to the affluent and discerning audience in Qatar’s capital. In addition to the floor slabs, a wall clad in LASA VENA ORO flanks the main entrance of the boutique as part of the façade, featuring the monogram of the haute couture label. The boutique, which reflects Tamara Ralph’s creative vision and is made exclusively from the finest materials, is designed in silver, alabaster, champagne and rose gold. These colours embody glamour for the Australian-born fashion designers and thus stand for sophistication, elegance and femininity. It was precisely these noble, exclusive and warm characteristics—golden inclusions in the pearly-white Laas marble, arranged in stripes and cloud-like patterns—that the architects identified when selecting the material for our LASA VENA ORO.