From the Retail Design Diva on the Le Vigne wine shop (pictured) in Greenwich village. The store’s owner hired MADLAB to do the work, but when cost of his ideal custom wine shop shot through the room, MADLAB brought on the spurse collective whose solution and process are fascinating:
[Spurse presented] a turnkey solution that would compress the design process into a simple, to-the-heart-of-it solution: three client meetings, three design drawings and three weeks of installation…
Armed with “tools, truckloads of thrift shop furniture and a knack for experiential carpentry,” the design team decided to leave the excavated space as is and used recycled and repurposed second-hand furniture as the primary design approach.
The results are unique and beautiful. Now to research both MADLAB and spurse more. (HT to Richard for the tip.)