Jefferson

New York, New York

The design for Jefferson employed vertical planes and a ceiling landscape to create space. Since partitions would have blocked views of the park from the dining room, we varied ceiling heights and surfaces (wood, glass, and acoustical tile) to demarcate four functionally differentiated ‘rooms’. This ceiling landscape creates discreet zones for reception, bar, dining, and service spaces within the 2,200 square foot ‘loft’.

A ribbed acoustical surface known as Solaton clads half of the wall and ceiling surfaces. More typically used for office spaces ceilings in Japan, the first U.S. installation of this product was at Jefferson. Linestra inscandescent tube lighting is arrayed across the ceiling and walls, recessed into light boxes parallel with the ribbed pattern of the tiles. Mirror, frosted, and clear glass surfaces accentuate the repetitive pattern of lights creating illusionist and expansive spatial effects. And perhaps most importantly, the three skylights afford the conversion of daylight into a volumetric ‘material’.