The pop-up shop and restaurant trend is an exciting one for the interior architecture industry. It takes the negative impact of economic downturn and turns it into a positive one and offers exciting challenges for the designer or architect. Owing to the temporary nature of the interiors, the design of pop-up spaces are more daring in their design and often using materials that wouldn’t normally be used in a permanent interior space. The materials used need to be readily available and easy to assemble. Some of the spaces have the good fortune of inhabiting spaces that were previously retail spaces so they inherit good lighting and flooring.