Aesop St James Quarter

Signature store

Opening hours

  • Monday
    9:00am - 8:00pm
  • Tuesday
    9:00am - 8:00pm
  • Wednesday
    9:00am - 8:00pm
  • Thursday
    9:00am - 8:00pm
  • Friday
    9:00am - 8:00pm
  • Saturday
    9:00am - 8:00pm
  • Sunday
    10:00am - 6:00pm

This store offers Click and Collect.

Aesop St James Quarter Store

This fleeting moment of splendour reminded the team of the magnificent ‘Valley Curtain’ (1972) installation by the late Christo and Jeanne-Claude, for which a monumental orange curtain was rigged up across the rugged Colorado State Highway 325. The material billowed within the rocky valley for 28 hours before a forceful gale made it necessary to begin removal.

In humble reverence for the artistic pair, we swathed the space at St James Quarter in vast tracts of yellow fabric. Low-hanging curtains frame the threshold; from the exterior, light glows through the translucent material, suggesting warmth and privacy within. Sheer sheets soften the edges of the store while creating a sense of passage: the first room is intended for more social moments and product encounters while the second is a quiet, enclosed environment with ample seating for rest and contemplation. Modular furniture, designed to be dismantled and reused many times over, inhabits the space in monochromatic fashion. Shelving cabinets from our collection of durable pieces have been tenderly repainted to match. Two large fibreglass lamps hang from the exposed ceiling, drawing the eye to the stainless-steel demonstration basins.