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"The 10 Best-Designed Chocolate Shops Around the World\nFrom rococo jewel boxes to cutting-edge marvels, these dazzling chocolate shops are as wonderfully varied as, well, a fine box of chocolates.\nConsidering Patrick Roger's reputation as the Rodin of chocolatiers, one never knows what larger-than-life chocolate sculptures will be on display in his flagship on Place de Madeleine. Roger, who once attempted to create a life-size chocolate elephant and who collaborated with fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld on a hotel suite made completely out of his preferred (and delicious) medium, worked closely with Paris-based X-Tu Architects on the forest-themed boutique, whose windows were specially engineered to protect the chocolate gorillas.\n\npatrickroger.com\nExhibiting the fantastical exuberance for which the Japanese design firm Wonderwall is renowned, this Tokyo hot spot is anchored by a long gleaming communal table made of marble and a dark-wood carved ceiling that resembles a giant bar of chocolate. The sleek space helps answer the question: What if Willy Wonka shopped at Design Within Reach?\n\nmeiji.co.jp\nSince 1819, Maison Cailler has produced legendary chocolate in the mountains of Switzerland. At its factory in Broc, a small wood-shingled structure bisected by a glass wall reveals a boldly modernist interior. The hut, created by French designer Mathieu Lehanneur and architect Ana Moussinet, serves as a welcome center, where guests discover their \"chocolate personality\" by tasting samples with varying amounts of milk, caramel, nuts, fruit, flowers, vanilla, and cocoa.\n\nmaisoncailler.com\nThe recently opened New York outpost of Japanese chocolatier Royce' is as sleek as it is minimalist, providing a stark-white backdrop to showcase the company's brightly colored offerings. The space's odd dimensions\u20149 feet wide with 17-foot ceilings\u2014were ingeniously exaggerated by New York architect Sam Trimble to create a vision of chocolate from the future. The sliver of a Madison Avenue shop is crisply efficient\u2014much like Royce's chocolate-covered potato chips, which allow you to get your sweet and salty fixes in one bite.\n\ne-royce.com\nWith a pedigree that includes time at El Bulli come certain avant-garde expectations. Confectioner Oriol Balaguer fully delivers on all of them with his signature chocolate pods that contain such imaginative fillings as Pop Rocks. The chocolatier has said he finds inspiration in architecture, and it's clear that Barcelona-based GCA Architects, which designed the boldly modern space, found inspiration in his chocolate\u2014the domed light sculpture was fashioned to resemble a cocoa pod.\n\noriol-balaguer.com\nThe line outside Ladur\u00E9e's new chocolate-centric boutique may be as long as the one at Versailles\u2014and that's not where the similarities end. The sumptuous interiors of the macaron mecca's spin-off appear just as lavish as any of the ornate jewelry boutiques at the nearby Place Vend\u00F4me, but with a modern-design twist that mixes a 21st-century graphic sensibility with Sun King splendor.\n\nladuree.fr\nIf Parisians can co-opt the Brooklyn look (see the 11th arrondissement's boho-chic bistro Le Square Gardette), then Brooklyn can certainly provide its own take on the art of chocolate. The Mast shop captures Williamsburg at its handcrafted, unstudied, artisanal best. Designed and curated by brothers Rick and Michael Mast, the space displays a what's-old-is-new feel, as does the firm's charmingly patterned packaging.\n\nmastbrothers.com\nThere's nothing twee about this Notting Hill chocolate shop. Sure, you select your own chocolates with wooden tongs and there's often an arrangement up front with seasonal chocolates hung from its flowering branches. But the boutique, which was created by London-based designer Michaelis Boyd, is light, airy, and refreshingly simple. An exposed kitchen allows visitors to watch the artisans at work and choose from the freshest sweets available.\n\nmeltchocolates.com\nStepping into this immaculate shop in Paris's Marais neighborhood, you would never guess you'd entered the home of the man known as the rebel chocolatier. Paris-based architect Guillaume Leclerc's streamlined design for the industrial-chic space nestled within a 17th-century shell clearly keeps the focus exactly where it should be\u2014on the chocolates.\n\njacquesgenin.fr\nIf the interiors of Mary look as though they're suited for a king, it's because they are. The celebrated chocolatier has held a Royal Warrant since 1942, and has been one of the most esteemed chocolate makers in Belgium\u2014which is to say, the world\u2014since opening in 1919. But all the shop's Art Deco influences and gilded walls still don't outshine the handcrafted pralines and Langues-de-Chat.\u00A0\n\nmary.be"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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