May brings thousands of visitors to New York City for art and design fairs and related events. The largest and most established include two major art fairs, Frieze New York (Thursday to Sunday)And Tefaf New York (Friday to Tuesday)the NycxDesign Festival (15-21 May), the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (18-20 May) and a new design fair, Layer in the afternoon light (17-19 May).
But stock markets and galleries are not the only places to see a remarkable design in the city. Restaurants, for example, have become just as serious about design as about food (and sometimes even more). Hundreds of eateries opened last year In New York City, Many of them with impressive art, flattering lighting, high-end finishes and furniture And of course at least a few Instagram-worthy backgrounds.
Those emphasized below are open in the past year. They were not chosen for their culinary or cocktail offer, but for their striking design, with interiors that are intriguing and fascinating. Some are designed by professionals, others by veterans from the industry who take matters into their own hands, and a couple of the film industry. Scoring a coveted reserve at a time when competitions of art and design types are overflowing with the city, probably not will be easy, but a curious visitor may be able to pop up for a look.
This intimate bar above Daniel Humm’s ELF MADISON PARK has been buzz for his original artMade by the man for whom it was called, Francesco Clemente. But it was Brad Cloepfil of Allied works, the architect who was responsible for the 2017 redesign From the Drie-Michelin star restaurant, and Rachel Massey, are associated director, director of Interior Design, who created the interior.
When Humm approached Clopfil about designing a bar for the works of Clemente, he called Kronenhalle, an elegant, old soul of an establishment in Zurich, as potential inspiration. Kronenhalle restaurant has walls with wood panels dressed with pieces By people like Marc Chagall and Joan Miró.
“I wanted to make a single wooden room that was very special,” said Cloepfil, “and I didn’t want it to feel designed, made as much as made.”
He got his wish. Clemente bar is cocooned in laser cut walnut panels accessorized by small medallions that were cut by hand in the Allied Works Studio. The largest piece of furniture in the room is a vintage Italian bankette that fitted perfectly where it was needed, without changes changes.
Most remaining pieces of furniture were commissioned by Brett Robinson, a designer who lives and works in Los Angeles, who created stone tables, bar stools and Ottomans with adapted metal finishes. The artist Carsten Höller created adapted species and table lamps that look like melted mushrooms.
Second floor, eleven Madison Park, 11 Madison Avenue (24th Street), Clementebar.com.
SOSOS
Most eateries on this list are interiors made by experienced architects and / or interior designers. Sosos does not do that. It is the establishment of the owners, Eddy Buckingham and Jeff Lam, partners in Tuxedo Hospitality (who also own Chinese Tuxedo, an atmospheric eatery for a windy alley in Chinatown).
“We wanted to create something that was really good without much pretension,” said Buckingham. “We lean in a feeling of nostalgia such as social and social and fun.”
Each table in the dining room with wood panels is a stand upholstered in a colorful vinylpatchwork inspired by bags from the 70s. Those colors informed the rest of the room, from floor tiles to the vintage Helena Tynell hangers and solidifies, as well as the candy -colored windows above the bar. And the outer windows are located in different shapes and sizes that, said Buckingham, hopes that the room “looks like an art installation of the street.”
191 Center Street (Hester Street), sosos.nyc.
Printemps
The Outpost of New York City of the Paris Fashion Shop with a dedicated supporters – the only location in the United States – Debuted in March to Great FanfareWith lines around the block and four drinking or eateries (a fifth, Maison Passerelle, opened a few weeks ago). Salon Vert, a raw bar on the second floor that also serves a small selection of other foods, is particularly inviting; are designLike all the interior of the 55,000 square foot store with two levels, it was entrusted to Laura Gonzalez, an interior designer who lives and works in Paris, who also has a showroom in Tribeca.
Gonzalez said in an interview that she presented Salon Vert as a mix of ‘femininity and green’. The floor is a grid of green stone. Call -like shelves she described as “Leliek cushions” float up with wood -covered “Boom” columns. The back of the beam is covered with custom -made tiles with the image of A, appropriate, a calla lily. A long -term banquet is upholstered in green Pierre Frey fabric. A fresco by hand painted by David Roma floats around the entire room. And a herd of origami birds, made by the Belgian artist Charles Kaisin, is suspended from the ceiling.
“I think it’s good to bring life to the retail trade,” said Gonzalez. “You come, you can drink coffee. Or you can just buy a lipstick and go home.”
1 Wall Street (Broadway), US.Printemps.com.
Manuela
Nine years ago the first Manuela Restaurant opened in the center of Los Angeles in the then Hauser Wirth & Schimmel (now Hauser & Wirth) Gallery Complex, which also housed the art gallery and a garden and bookstore. Last fall, the debut of Manuela brought in New York City.
Like his brother or sister on the west coastThe Manuela in Soho attracts dinners with millions of dollars of art, functional and otherwise. There is a table designed and made by Rashid Johnson in the Privé -Wetkamer (set with Vintage Cassina Cab 413 chairs by Mario Bellini and illuminated by Massimo Vignelli Sigaro pendant Lamps), and, in the head lamps in the bar), in the shape of the bar), in shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape of the shape) the shape of mushroom), in the form of mushroom), in the form of mushroom), in the form of mushroom), in the form of mushroom), in the form of mushroom), in the form of mushroom), in the form of mushroom), in the form of mushroom), in the shape of the form of mushroom), in the shape of the shape of the shape of), in the shape of), in the shape of), in the shape of mushroom), in the shape of mushroom), in the shape of mushroom), in the form of mushroom), in the form of mushroom), in the form of mushroom), in the form of mushroom) in the form of mushroom in the form of mushroom in the form of mushroom), Form of mushroom), in the form of Mushroom), in the form of Mushroom), in the form of the bar). By Mika Rottenberg.
You might ask yourself why an interior designer was needed? To help all the above happen.
“Much of what we do behind the scenes is incredibly technical, to support the artists so that they do not have to think about it,” said Russell Sage, an interior designer who worked with the WIRTHS on various hospitality projects, including the Soho Manuela. “I look at it through the lens of” Will this still be perfect about five or 10 years “? “”
This meant strengthening walls, so that they could wear the weight of a Louise Bourgeois “Spider II” sculpture and floors to hold Johnson’s table (a window had to be removed to bring it in). But it also meant that working with the Heilmann team to make tables that could accommodate a table environment, and to help Rothenberg find and dry the oven from some of the vines used in its sculptural lighting creation.
“Everything looks new, whether it’s new or old,” said Sage. “And that is important.”
130 Prince Street (Wooster), manuela-nyc.com.
La Tête d’Or
A bowl here comes from the double height glass door of La Tête d’Or, the Multi-Michelin-star chef Daniel Boulud’s first steakhouse, that Open last November In a new office tower on One Madison Avenue. It is named after the largest city park in the Boulud, Lyon, France’s hometown, and was designed by Rockwell Group. That explains why this is a rare eatery where the design was just as amazing in the large dining room as in the bar.
It is wealth with a calm cinematic quality, thanks to the use by the designers of warm colors, rich natural materials and excellent lighting. (Let’s not forget that David Rockwell, the founder of Rockwell Group, is a plural Tony Award nominated And won in 2016 for the best picturesque design of a musical for “She Loves Me”).
The bar has a ceilings of 18 feet, but feels intimate thanks to a stepped ceiling and walls dressed in leather with wooden upholstery. Likewise, the dining room of 120 people feels more intimate than you would expect.
Curved banquets are placed under a partially covered ceiling, several sources of light rays of warmth, and what looks like a work of art in the kitchen is a hood made from a collage given by the Belgian artist Jesse Willems and made of five different metals.
318 Park Ave. South (23rd), latetedorbydaniel.com.
Shirokuro
The restorer James Lim came across a 2D restaurant for the first time – where architectural and interior details are drawn by hand, creating the illusion of an illustrated world – about 10 years ago in Korea. Last month he opened one in the East Village. It is a Japanese restaurant called Shirokuro, which translates into “Wit-Black”-the color scheme of the entire restaurant.
Everything was painted by hand by Mirim Yoo, a friend of his. She was the broker who helped him find this space, but she also graduated in the School for Visual Arts. She noticed in an e -mail statement that “Art has been a constant thread all my life.” She added that her artistic path “has always been interdisciplinary – about painting, ceramics, illustration, fashion and compelling environments.”
She carefully spent almost three months creating the area in a style she said, pulled out of the Japanese Sumi-E ink painting, albeit again interpreted by her definitely modern lens.
103 second Avenue (6th Street), shirokuronyc.com.
Monsieur
Baz Luhrmann, the film director and producer, and his wife, Catherine Martin, A costume and set designerWorked together on the interior for Monsieur, a new bar in the East Village.
Located on the spot where the boiler room once housed, a gay bar that moved to a new location nearby, Monsieur Functions Martin’s Jungle Room Wallpaper for MokumThe Australian Textile and Wallpaper Company, on the walls; her Beverly Hills -FabricAlso designed for Mokum, on a part of the upholstery; And strategic use of stained glass, especially behind the beam of the background lighting.
In general it is dark with a medieval atmosphere: dark wooden columns and beams, dark wooden chairs, dark wooden tables. The ceilings are low, just like the lighting, including Murano glasses and pendants, together with lamps with red tones and black brushes.
Visitors will also notice an abundance of – there is no other way to describe them – random tchotchkes. Many apparently came from Luhrmann himself, such as He told Vanity Fair. Some are displayed in cupboards, but many are spread over the space – seductive souvenirs of a festive evening.
86 East 4th Street (Second Avenue), Monsieurnnyc.com.
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