Nira Living / Brand & Communication
A furniture brand that looks like the rooms it furnishes
A boho furniture retailer replaces catalogue photography with a brand and a content system built around whole rooms.
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The problem
Nira sold pieces people fall for on sight and photographed them like warehouse stock: white background, front angle, dimensions underneath. The showroom was warm and layered and the feed read like a price list, so customers arrived unsure whether the shop was the one they had seen online. The brand's best asset was the one place none of its marketing came from.
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The opportunity
This category is not bought on specification. A boho interior is chosen by feel - texture, light, the way a room settles together - and that is exactly what a photograph carries and a spec sheet cannot. The showroom was already doing the persuading in person; nothing of it reached anyone who had not walked in.
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The system
An identity taken from the materials themselves: natural texture, warm neutrals, typography with room to breathe, applied across labels, tags, packaging, the showroom and the feed. A photographic standard built on rooms rather than products, four owned formats - the room, the detail, the maker and the customer's own home - and a seasonal content plan that follows what is actually in stock instead of what is in season somewhere else.
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The work
Brand identity and applications, showroom and labelling design, a room-based photographic standard, a template kit for stories and product posts, and monthly social media management.
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Evidence
Illustrative figures for a concept case.
2.9×
Saves per post
2.2×
Showroom visits attributed to social
3.1×
Reuse of a single styled shoot across a season
Learning forward
Selling the room outperformed selling the piece, and it also cost less: one styled setting produced a season of posts, where one product per frame had produced one post each.