Aesop San Francisco Centre is situated in the city’s downtown near Union Square, neighboring the San Francisco MoMA, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and the Yerba Buena Gardens. Created by Aesop’s in-house Design Department, the space calls to mind the Victorian architecture which lines the hilly city streets.
The 480 square-foot space draws its influence from the Haas–Lilienthal House, one of San Francisco’s largest Victorian manors and the only one that doubles as a full-time museum. The space abstracts the architectural articulation of the Haas–Lilienthal in a graceful referential. In colors of muted green-gray, the walls take on a monochrome and shade specific to that of the house’s original.