Dec 06 2011
Interior Architecture Sandwiched Project by INABA
Architects: INABA, C?Lab
Location: New York, USA
Lantern Fabrication: Kreysler & Associates
Furniture Fabrication: Atta Inc
Upholstery: Greg Georgi
Lighting: Doug Russell, Lighting Workshop
Engineering: Arup, New York
Area: 2,200 SF
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Naho Kubota
As part of 2010, the Whitney Biennial, Jeffrey Inaba’s firm, INABA, was commissioned to design a pop?up café located in the museum’s interior courtyard. The project consists of three (3) large?scale lanterns that occupy the courtyard’s double?height space, a 24?foot long service counter, communal tables, high?top counters and ‘droopy’ seat cushions.
However bold in form or expressive in materials, it was striking to us that postwar architecture is vulnerable to appearing cold, incomplete and lacking in detail. Depending on the character of the interior design, even the strongest statements of modern architecture can today sometimes verge on feeling unadorned, like a dentist office waiting area. We wanted to add another scale of detail and information to the Breuer building’s interior. Only instead of using stark simple forms and exposed natural materials, we tried to enhance the space, to ‘re?humanize’ it, with curved shapes and a palette of synthetic materials (fiberglass, resin, nylon, acrylic and vinyl).
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Architect: INABA
Location: New York
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