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Sunnyside Renovation


Published in Dwell

Project Team: Lane Rick, Can Vu Bui and Sol Condo

Photography: Nicholas Venezia

A busy and often traveling theater couple approached us to reimagine their Sunnyside co-op, from a quaint pre-war kitchen, into one that is open to the home, and can act as a theatrical backdrop to their lives at home.





In keeping with Office of Thing’s practice of subverting accepted ideas to produce unexpected results, our approach was to reconfigure the layout of the apartment, turning a bedroom into a larger living room, and open up the dividing wall between that space and the kitchen, creating a larger entertaining area. The clients were open to a bold redesign, so we pushed the the kitchen to be dramatic: a mix of disparate materials and colors, both new and old, are carefully composed to embolden the space as a functional and fun kitchen of contrasts: shiny chrome finishes are contrasted with newly exposed century old iron steam pipes belonging to the co-op; orange upper cabinets embrace the warmth of the southern sun, are balanced by the rough brushed finish of the black granite countertop; an aqua-colored handmade and heavily uneven glazed ceramic tile plays against the standard factory-made smoothness of plywood at lower cabinets.




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