Thoughtful design

At the beginning of the year I saw a post from friend @doriangel about the great department store Traki, at that moment I thought about the years I have without visiting that store, so I decided to make an adventure trip.

Although @doriangel lives in the State of Merida and I live in Caracas, the store has a national presence and by those coincidences of life a few days later I saw a store in a sector that I rarely visit so I said to myself "this is the place".

My adventure
I confess, I am not a mall and department store person. An atypical woman, maybe yes. A hidden secret: enclosed and crowded places cause me fatigue. So my visits to these places are fleeting like comets.

The perfect accomplice.
To fulfill my mission, I invited my sister to the excursion. She loves to look at clothes, check prices, try on clothes and in the end maybe not buy anything. She is a fish in the water: she is in her environment. When I proposed the adventure her eyes sparkled and I understood that she was the one to take the tour.

At two o'clock in the afternoon we arrived at the Traki store, located on Venezuela Avenue in El Rosal, Caracas. It occupies the first five floors of an office building. The first thing that caught my attention is that on the terrace, the entrance to the store, there is a restaurant. It is very nice, spacious and outdoors. For a moment I was tempted to stay there instead of going in.

The walls of the facade are painted white and it has panoramic windows. This gives it a certain feeling of spaciousness, the same feeling that is reflected inside. The spaces are wide, white painted walls that give the sensation of being in a comfortable and open space.

It has 6 levels
Home, furniture, toy store, children's clothing, men's clothing and finally on the top floor women's clothing. They definitely thought it through. We women have to go through all the floors to get to our clothes and on the way more than one of us will get clothes stuck in our hands. By the way, the cash register is in the exit area, next to the restaurant. On the way out, coffee and cake are waiting to complete the visit.

I noticed that the interior design is exactly the same as the Traki store in Mérida, which shows that the architects and interior designers have made an effort to keep the store concept consistent. It has escalators and a regular staircase to access each floor. There is an elevator with a view to the east side of the store. The ceiling of the stairs has very attractive round light fixtures.

The ceiling is made of steel slab (I think that's what it's called), it's completely painted white and they have left the light fixtures and pipes exposed. I think they hid the water pipes very well, both white and black. And I did not see the fire alarm system piping, although I did see the alarms and fire extinguishers very well identified.

The second level has a nice architectural detail. Part of the floor is made of glass blocks. It looked to me like the yellow walkway to the world of Oz; however, this Doroty did not feel safe walking on those blocks.

The bathrooms are on the top floor (very well thought out), the customer must walk up all the floors. What struck me powerfully about this bathroom was the sink. It is rustic in a single block and it reminded me of the sinks I have seen in rutic houses in the Venezuelan plains, personally I feel that it does not match the rest of the decoration of the place.

My visit to this place lasted about three hours. Remember that I went with my sister. She took it upon herself to check, rummage and see everything absolutely everything... well I am exaggerating. I pushed her to get out of the place. The air for my taste was rarefied by the smell of plastic, of being locked up, of new clothes ... and I needed outside air. By the way, that smell was magnified when I went up to floors 5 and 6, because I noticed that the air conditioning was not working. Now that was a real tragedy.

Adventures can come in many forms and this visit was one of them.

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This sofa made my day. I found myself sitting there reading my favorite books.

_{Own pictures taken with my Tecno Spark cell phone //
I used the free version of Deepl.com as a translator.}