New Work: Muse Hotel
We were chosen to participate in the Puccini Group’s highly anticipated redesign of the Muse Hotel in Times Square. The new look, headed by senior designer Jane Humphrey, called for a lobby which overwhelmed and dazzled with a huge variety of materials, including assorted brass and bronze finishes throughout.
Our contribution, a massive (4 feet deep by 8 feet long) mock fireplace hood, stood as a centerpiece of the entire area, as well as serving to separate the lobby from the bar area. The hood was produced with a tromp-l’oeil painted steel frame, sheathed in six sheets of bronze with a bright finish. Hidden inside behind a blackened wire grate is a digital projector casting a looped video of flames flickering on a glass screen above a bronze log sculpture. Delivering this hood to Manhattan in the middle of a blizzard was no joke.
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