The Fleur Room
Studio: Rockwell Group
Project: The Fleur Room
Location: New York, New York United States
Year: 2018
Category: Bars & Restaurants
Credit: Michael Kleinberg
Guests enter the rooftop bar from the street level through a mysterious and immersive vestibule and staircase are wrapped in gigantic super graphics of botanicals heighted by a black background that appears to float the florals in three dimensions. They ascend to the second floor lounge where elevators whisk them to the intimate indoor and outdoor Fleur Room on the 35thfloor. Arriving into an elegant barrel vaulted vestibule wrapped in bronzed plaster, guests can move to indoor space to the south or outdoor space to the north. A dynamic palette of materials mixes rough concrete and industrial fenestration with polished bronze, warm wall coverings, and plush furnishings.Glamour meets grit. Subdued indirect lighting both reinforces the spectacular views and heightens the intimacy. Custom cocktail tables with inverted resin pyramid tops glow with embedded florals, recalling the surrounding Flower District.The unique bar appears like a bronze extrusion recalling the chic precision of intimate bars found in Rome or Milan. Opposite the bar is an indoor/outdoor lounge wrapped in kinetic windows that transform the space into a sky veranda at the touch of a button. Doubling as a dance area, the flooring is made from concrete tile in black, white, and green configured as segments of circles, recalling the circular motif used throughout the public spaces. The bathroom ceiling fixture is made from bronze and looks like the plucked daisy in a game of “she-loves-me, she-loves-me-not,” with petals drifting down the walls and settling to create a red resin floor. A second corridor linking the bar and lounge areas is lined with replicas of classical sculptures that double as selfie stations, a sly nod to the “live” corridor of torchieres in Jean Cocteau’s “Beauty and the Beast.”
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