Kiosk & Counter Build

Chako Lab Drinkware Kiosk — Dopamine-Color Retail Island for a Designer Bottle Brand

How Elite Fixtures designed and built a dopamine-color mall kiosk for Chako Lab, a designer drinkware brand — from 3D concept and factory fabrication to overnight installation in a shopping mall.

Completed Chako Lab inline retail store with yellow fixture frames, blue wall panels, and colorful drinkware displays

Fixture type: Open mall kiosk (island format) · Materials: Birch-tone laminate, powder-coated steel, acrylic dividers, LED lightboxes · Environment: High-traffic shopping mall atrium

The brand

Chako Lab (和序) is a Chinese designer drinkware brand that treats water bottles as fashion accessories rather than utility items. Built around a "dopamine color" aesthetic and sculptural silhouettes, the brand holds more than fifty design patents and has earned Red Dot and iF design awards. Its customers are young shoppers who buy bottles the way they buy sneakers — for color, self-expression, and social sharing.

The brief

A brand this visual cannot live inside a generic kiosk shell. Chako Lab needed a mall island that could:

  • Display a dense, fast-rotating SKU mix — bottles, straps, charms, and DIY accessories — without looking cluttered
  • Reproduce the brand's saturated color palette exactly, across painted steel, laminate, and acrylic
  • Give shoppers open, touch-friendly access from all four sides while keeping clear staff sightlines
  • Integrate lightbox graphics and accent lighting that photograph well for social media

What we built

Working from the brand's color system, our team developed the kiosk concept in 3D, resolved it into shop drawings, and fabricated the full fixture package in our Huizhou factory:

  • Perimeter display counters with sloped, color-blocked acrylic bins that organize bottles by colorway and keep the SKU-dense presentation readable
  • A birch-tone central service counter with printed brand graphics, storage below, and a POS position
  • A blue feature wall with adjustable pegs and shelves for straps, charms, and accessory merchandising
  • Magenta powder-coated steel canopy frame with an integrated track-lighting grid overhead
  • LED lightbox panels on the counter ends carrying campaign photography
  • Color-matched finishes across every material — paint, laminate, and acrylic sampled and approved against brand swatches before production

From factory floor to mall floor

The kiosk was pre-assembled and quality-checked at the factory, then packed for shipment and installed on site. Factory pre-assembly meant the on-site team worked from a proven fit — the install photos below show the same fixture standing in the mall exactly as it stood on our production floor.

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Project takeaway

For color-driven lifestyle brands, the fixture is the brand. Precise color matching, disciplined SKU zoning, and factory pre-assembly turned a bold 3D concept into a kiosk that installs cleanly and merchandises itself.

Planning a lifestyle or accessories kiosk? Discuss a similar project — send us your floor plan, SKU mix, and brand colors, and we'll come back with a fixture approach.

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