Sep 01
Sep 01
Pop-Out House by Mut Architecture and Benjamin Mahon
Posted in: Benjamin Mahon, childrens furniture, Mut Architecture
A shelving unit displaying children’s clothes doubles up as a plywood playhouse with a sliding staircase, swinging doors and removable furniture.
The playhouse occupies a children’s clothes shop in Paris, designed by French studio Mut Architecture and architect Benjamin Mahon.
The set of steps slide out to allow shop-workers to reach the highest shelves, while a hollow box on wheels rolls away to provide an island table.
Other interiors that integrate children’s play areas include a perforated bedroom wall that can be used as a ladder and a bed with a play den below.
Photography is by Mut Architecture.
The following short description is from the architects:
In collaboration with Benjamin Mahon, Mut architecture has completed a children’s store in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.
The main concept for the store was to construct a large doll house within the store, a house you can pull drawers out of, swing doors from, a doll house that lends itself to the imagination of children.
Ladders on wheels are embedded in the structure of the house, and a box is set within the house and can be removed to be used as a central island within the shop, to expose products.
From the street the giant house seems to be overwhelming the volume of the 16 meter square shop.
We used poplar plywood for the interior of the store with white stratification and mirrors to accent the fresh feel of the wood surfaces.
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The Whitney Sticks with Danny Meyer, Plan to Open Two Restaurants in New Building Come 2015
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The love affair betwixt the Whitney and restauranteur Danny Meyer is still apparently a match made in heaven. Following the opening of Meyer’s Untitled on the ground floor of the museum this past spring, the two have announced that they will continue to collaborate when the museum moves to its new Renzo Piano-designed digs in 2015. According to Eater, Meyer’s company, Union Square Hospitality Group, “will run both the ground floor restaurant and top floor cafe (complete with outdoor terrace).” However, while the museum told the site that one of the new restaurants “will be similar to Untitled,” Meyer will not be bringing design star David Rockwell back to create it. Instead, he’s returned to Bentel & Bentel, who made a big splash with the restauranteur’s beloved The Modern at the MoMA.
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