Two decades ago, Freitag’s tottering container tower became an unexpected design icon

Wallpaper | 08.09.2026 17:01
Twenty years ago, Freitag, the Swiss bag makers with a penchant for second-life materials, opened its first flagship store in Zurich. At the time, the idea of using a stack of decommissioned shipping containers was rather novel, and not yet a ready identifier of commerce-driven pre- or post-development pop-up ‘happening’.