_Tribeca Issey Miyake
www.tribecaisseymiyake.com
Architect: Frank Gehry
Shop Until You're Blown Away is the message of the new Tribeca Issey Miyake shop designed by Frank O. Gehry and his former protégé, Gordon Kipping of Manhattan-based GTECTS. The designs of the eternally experimental Japanese couturier have always carried a whiff of chaos: the shoulderless shoulders, the strange silhouettes, the never-before-seen fabrics, the glaring absence of buttons and seams.
And when the new shop was still a gleam in Miyake's eye, he made a studio visit to Gehry in Los Angeles and walked away with a vision of a Gehry "tornado" whipping through space, transforming everything in its path. Of course, Miyake, like so much of the architecture world, wasn't immune to Bilbao Fever."The Tornado" is now the name of the 25-foot-high titanium column-like structure which dominates the Hudson Street shop. It's pure Gehry -- and yet if you squint you'd swear you're looking at a classic pleated Miyake dress (fitted on Nike of Samothrace). Extending from a shaft emerging from the cellar floor to a turbulent sprawl engulfing the ceiling of the ground floor, the Tornado does energize the whole room, both engaging and provoking the shopper.
It's not for the faint-hearted, but what Gehry or Mikaye design is? "I think Issey and I may be after the same thing in our work," Gehry says. "We're both trying to express movement and play around with new materials that haven't been used before."
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