Green Qween’s business partners and co-founders Andrés Rigal and Taylor Bazley were awarded the only social equity licence out of 40 applications to open a cannabis dispensary in the community. The duo collaborated with cannabis design and manufacturing firm, SevenPoint Interiors, to create a welcoming brick and mortar retail space that compliments the local architecture, while serving as a destination for cannabis enthusiasts.
Rigal and Bazley wanted to achieve the perfect balance between a tasteful celebration of the structure’s aesthetic heritage, the required functionality of a cannabis retail operation, and the elevated aesthetics of the local community that represents DTLA. The collaboration saw experts create a concept to promote an open opportunity to interact with multiple vendors through a cohesive visual experience, unified by repetitive dimensional geometry, iridescent finishes, and a retrofuture aesthetic.
Originally built as a bank in the 1930s, Green Qween occupies a historic Art Deco building in the trending South Park neighbourhood. As guests enter the dispensary, they are greeted with friendly budtenders and festive music. Crafted display cases hold BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ brands, and a disco ball is embedded into the back wall. Although rainbows are not covering every surface of the dispensary, dichroic accents paint the space with a prism of light throughout the day. The apricot and blue palette are punctuated with white details, spread across rounded, Oz-like forms, finished with custom designed fixtures.
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Independent Shops & Small Chains
DTLA’s first LGBTQIA+ and POC community-focused cannabis dispensary
SevenPoint Interiors brings Art Deco vibrancy and sophistication to Green Qween, in Los Angeles
29 August 2022