Oh Wow Book Club - New York

The first OHWOW Book Club has opened its doors in a tiny

150 square-foot space in New York’s Greenwich Village.

 The retail space is located below street level

in a historic brownstone on Waverly Place.

The black-and-white tiled floor and the turquoise walls create

 a decidedly aquatic mood although the designer,

Rafael de Cárdenas, was thinking less of marine habitats and

more of a classic pre-war NYC water closet when he themed the space.

Experience designer/architect Rafael de Cárdenas of Architecture At Large

 is a master of creating moods. In OHWOW Book Club, he has explored

 not only the sensations of disorientation and floating through neon lighting

and random wall color patterns and placement of shelves,

but also the feel of direction through

the Navajo carpet-like tile pattern of the floor.

All of these themes are evident also in OHWOW’s Miami exhibition space at NW 7 Avenue, that de Cárdenas designed in 2008 and to which the Miami Art Basel crowd took right away.

OHWOW (Our House West of Wynwood) is a collaborative creative enterprise conceived by New York’s event impresario Aaron Bondaroff and Miami art and publishing powerhouse Al Moran. - Tuija Seipell

So beautiful!

I really wanna visit here.

I'm planning to go to NYC again,

so I gotta visit here for sure.

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 -x.o.x.o AMY -