05/29/2026
▪️▫️Bloomingdale’s NYC Flagship Renovation Reimagines Iconic Retail Details in Wood ▫️▪️
A New York City luxury retail institution since 1886, the iconic Bloomingdale’s flagship, located at 59th and Lexington in Manhattan, is undergoing an ambitious renovation and revitalization, catalyzed by the vision “Dream Big.”
Olivier Bron, the CEO of Bloomingdale’s, recently expounded upon this vision in Monocle, “My dream is to build the next golden age of Bloomingdale’s,” he says. “The last one was in the 1970s and 1980s, when 59th Street was the convergence point for all New Yorkers.”
▪️▫️A collective effort in design ▫️▪️
Integral to the design for this next golden age of Bloomingdale’s was reimagining the look and feel of the New York City flagship’s historic black and white tiles. PID Floors was honored to be tasked with the work of reinterpreting these iconic tiles using the warm and inviting material of wood that would seamlessly coexist with the new visual storytelling, architectural storytelling, immersive retail concepts, and impeccable aesthetics. This approach to luxury retail flooring reflects an elevated customer experience through the prism of experiential interior design.
▪️▫️Wood Flooring as an extension of architecture and storytelling ▫️▪️
PID Floors created an innovative twist on traditional Herringbone Parquet for the areas adjacent to the escalators. Planks of European Oak, in two beautifully contrasting shades, were cut and assembled to form a unique custom box pattern parquet, reminiscent of the original black and white square tiles. These new wood parquet tiles are paired with European Plank flooring throughout the monumental space helping to engender what Bloomingdale’s Executive Vice President and director of stores, Catherine Cook, called a “warmer, much more feminine environment,” in WWD / Yahoo! Finance.
▪️▫️The result: A new golden age emerges, embracing the material of wood. ▫️◾️
One of the most iconic flooring patterns in the world is now reimagined in wood.
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