Luxury boutique, 202 Jewellery offers a sense of calm on a main street in Malta's busy retail capital of Sliema.

It's a recently completed retail project by young Maltese architecture firm Grech & Vinci who designed the interior space to appear to be "wearing a necklace, as a woman wears a piece of jewellery".

The interior of the existing retail unit was stripped right down to its bare structure - a radical cleansing which gave Grech & Vinci the opportunity to create a sparing store concept where illuminated and pristine white acts as a foil for precious metal and gems.

Against this, custom display modules act as adornments, or a 'necklace', varying in size, function, materiality and luminance.

These modules not only showcase the jewellery, but also sculpt the space; creating walls that become an ever-changing display, and voids that become a passage which flows in a circle from the entrance.