Flatiron Lobby
New York, USA
Interior Design I Furnishing
Our office was commissioned by a considerate and passionate condominium board to redesign the main lobby and common hallway of an historical building located on a busy avenue in downtown New York.
Originally completed in 1890, the building was designed in a Neo-Grec / Neo-Classical revival style. We sought to provide warm and inviting seating areas, restructuring and rethinking the flow of the space, while Preserving a majority of the original ornamentation, like the lobby floor patterning and existing cast iron columns in the lobby proved to be an interesting challenge.
Our vision of the new space was to highlight existing architectural elements, while re-lighting the space with warm, discrete light sources that would lend a greater softness to the lobby. The result is all about understated luxury: a string of bright, modern and elegant ‘rooms’. Abandoned cast iron capitals, found stashed away in the building cellar, were placed back atop columns, and given subtle emphasis by a recessed, back-lit ceiling cove.
The lightness and simplicity come from a monochromatic palette, characterized by a subtle black and white color scheme, natural textures and materials, and soft-edged furniture pieces.
