EYEWEAR STORE INTERIOR, WEST VILLAGE NEW YORK
The front of the store is designed as a theatre of the everyday, for the theatrical masks we all wear. Constructed with a set-like glamour, with felt-lined walls, recessed wooden shelving, and black parquet wooden floorboards fit for the stage.
Custom designed furnishings have an imaginative prop-like quality, arranged to emphasise the changeable nature of the store. The space is lit by a 1980s vintage pendant by Mario Botta and a 1960s Kaiser Leuchten table lamp by Klaus Hempel, chosen for their allusions to theatre flashlights, and photographic reflector screens.
Around the curved screen wall, the ‘backstage’ area. A contrast in dark bitter-chocolate brown. A vanity mirror lines the wall, set for Bespoke consultations. Deeper still into the store’s recesses, behind a leather curtain, two doors present themselves. One leads to a repair station, the other to the bathroom, a shrine to Dionysus, Greek god of art and theatre.
Photography by Alice Gao