#cantilevered

less pub than brothel and you the regulars or the wild turkeys are not what they seem

last night, i dreamt there was an eight-inch tall transparent plastic pepper grinder, three-quarters full of black peppercorns, sitting upright on the bed next to my pillow. the realization was so startling, i immediately woke, feeling around the place where the dream pepper grinder had stood, realizing it wasn't there. i laid awake wondering about that one for some time

much later, just before my final awakening, the one that brought me here, i dreamt i was forced by the state of the world to carry a worn wooden spatula with me everywhere i went, scraping a thin dry crust of egg, the kind left around the edge of a pan after scrambled eggs are cooked just a little too long, removing it from every surface i encountered

Casa Fresnos, Madrid, Spain,

Delavegacanolasso,

JGC House, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain - MDBA

Important Cabinets come and go, but if you tell me it's an Important Headboard, you will have my attention. Eileen Gray's c. 1930 headboard/bookcase combo and dresser/cabinet from her own Paris apartment were for sale at Christie's in 2023, but only the cabinet sold. Hate to break up a set, but, money and the vision to live with hundred-year-old iconic modernist dorm furniture rarely go hand in hand.

Anyway, half my point of making this post was so that this pic of Gray's bedroom could be somewhere else beside Pinterest, which remains a image searching curse.

Vignelli Associates designed this huge neon “G” and the cantilevered stainless-steel benches for this for this 1974 branch of Greenwich Savings Bank lobby at Grand Central Station in New York City.

Architects Kahn and Jacobs / HOK designed the interiors of this two-story branch with a narrow entrance lobby and a 2nd floor where the all the banking happened. A huge two-story mirrored wall made the space feel larger but also created a reflection which doubled everything in the space. It made the cantilevered seating look twice as long and made the “G” turn into a circle.

This branch made the cover of Lighting Design & Application in October 1975 and Interiors in January 1976.

In the Interiors article author BR suggests this contemporary bank has a youthful energy which is full of the glitter and ambiguity of a discotheque. “The cantilevered red and green logo, its neon tubes heat-fused into glass, becomes a full circle through reflection, appearing to hang in space and having an almost revolving effect when viewed from the escalator.”

The rest of the spaces have tons of Italian granite, more stainless steel, custom lighting, and to balance all those hard and reflective surfaces, the “G” shows up on wall tapestries.

Cantilevered lobby seating: Concept by Vignelli Associates; fabricated by Scope Furniture Inc.; upholstery: Knoll Inc.

Neon “G” logo: Concept by Vignelli Associates; fabricated by Country Neon (Plainview, N.Y.)