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City Joinery has worked with many accomplished architects and designers in New York and around the world. From New York apartments for Muriel Brandolini and vacation homes for Clodagh and Michael McCarthy to reception areas for GKV Architects and museum galleries for Voorsanger Associates, many of our best pieces have been the result of thoughtful collaborations. The following represent a selection from our Custom portfolio.
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Asia Society
We were first approached about creating new gallery furniture for the Asia Society Museum in New York by Voorsanger and Associates in 1999. The instituion's heralded Edward Larrabee Barnes building on Park Avenue at 70th was to have a full renovation. City Joinery was a natural choice for them with our reverence of both New York modernism and traditional Asian design.
Over two years, we attended design meetings, and reviewed materials and details in the architecture before we made our initial proposals for a series of benches, tables, desks and folding screens. As all the pieces were movable, and were to migrate around the flexible exhibition spaces as needed, they had to make a strong statement while meshing with the diverse palette of the interior. And while the forms and details of the smaller pieces came entirely from our drawing boards, the idea for the form of the reception desk came from the architect. We were asked to detail and make it such that it seemed a set with the other pieces.
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Brooklyn Academy of Music
Hardy Holzman Pheiffer was hired in the early 1990s to renovate the interior of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's venerable opera house, to bring it more in line with its edgy repertoire of performance events. We were brought in towards the end of the process in 1996 to create a series of movable pieces that would function as security desks and information kiosks by day, and combine to form broad souvenir sales counters by night. The palette of cherry, bleached maple, and aluminum was chosen to bridge between other furniture that had been specified and various aspects of the architecture.
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Sideboard for a Private Apartment, New York
The interior designer Maggie Rosenblatt was looking for a special new cabinet to sit amidst a cadre of vintage modern pieces in a compact West Village apartment. Wide boards of American Black Walnut were selected for their subtle color variation. The piece's details, such as the invisible drawer and door pulls, were coordinated so that they not overwhelm the rich but subtle wood grain.
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