Interior Design

Posted: 08/01/2011

Fluorescents mounted beneath the skylights compensate for the strong shadows on sunny days. Photography: Patricia Parinejad.

Fluorescents mounted beneath the skylights compensate for the strong shadows on sunny days. Photography: Patricia Parinejad.

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Shifting Gears

From the Magazine:
In an artful transformation by Voellmy Schmidlin, a Swiss service station becomes a gallery, the Von Bartha Garage.
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hown in the rear gallery, “I Do Like Drawings” also included photography and modern and contem- porary furniture, all curated by artist Karim Noureldin. Photography: Patricia Parinejad.

In the office, a 1958 lamp with a marble base sits on a custom plywood desk in front of a photograph by John Wood and Paul Harrison. Photography: Patricia Parinejad.

Concrete flooring is radiant-heated. Photography: Patricia Parinejad.

Hans Wegner’s seating and table, which belong to the Von Bartha Garage, accompany a pencil drawing by Noureldin. Photography: Patricia Parinejad.

A painted steel canopy identifies the primary entrance, through the former gas station. Photography: Patricia Parinejad.

The main gallery’s existing sawtooth roof had to be rebuilt to accommodate mechanicals. Photography: Patricia Parinejad.

The reception desk, in painted MDF, wraps around to face both the entry and the main gallery to the rear. Photography: Patricia Parinejad.

Fluorescents mounted beneath the skylights compensate for the strong shadows on sunny days. Photography: Patricia Parinejad.

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