FEIT Installation One: Raw Elements Of Construction

FEIT Installation One: Raw Elements Of Construction

FEIT Installation One: Raw Elements of Construction

Jordana Maisie Design Studio

INSTALLATION ONE FEIT
Raw Elements Of Construction

CONTRACTOR
K&s Construction enovations

PHOTOGRAPHY
Naho Kubota + Ben Pogue

BUDGET
$100k - 500k

AREA
581 Sqft / 0 Sqft - 1000 Sqft

YEAR
2014

LOCATION
New York, NY, United States

TYPE
Commercial › Retail

In the morning, the SoHo sun slips over sheets of plywood and mirrored boxes and filters through skeleton walls made of four-by-twos in a filigreed geometry.

FEIT Installation One: Raw Elements Of Construction
FEIT Installation One: Raw Elements Of Construction

Neither construction site nor art gallery, Feit is a 54-m2 footwear flagship across from New York City’s Sanaa-designed New Museum, which is reflected in the rear walls of the store.

Jordana Maisie (with Feit founder Tull Price of Rag & Bone and Royal Elastics fame) built Feit largely from matte-polyurethaned birch plywood shorn into clean angles and planes.

FEIT Installation One: Raw Elements Of Construction
FEIT Installation One: Raw Elements Of Construction

Price calls Feit a 'luxury modern-day cobbler', because it uses age-old shoemaking techniques to produce a contemporary product.

Maisie expressed hand-making by opting for one-off furnishings built by two carpenters on site – and by pushing the materials.

FEIT Installation One: Raw Elements Of Construction
FEIT Installation One: Raw Elements Of Construction

'The geometries of the displays,' she says, 'ask things of the materials and the fabrication processes that are not typically demanded from them.'

The cash desk is, let’s just say, multidirectionally polygonal. A triangular glass vitrine in its face slides like a drawer but looks like a crystalline art object.

FEIT Installation One: Raw Elements Of Construction
FEIT Installation One: Raw Elements Of Construction

Vertically mounted fluorescent fixtures distinguish display from service areas, like shoe repair and mirror-clad fitting rooms.

The striated lighting reinforces the varying pace at which passers-by cross the façade and, reflected in the mirror, confounds the shop’s dimensions.

What is unexpected – apart from realizing that you’re not sure where the door is once you’ve tried to exit through a mirror – is the great clarity with which the shoes stand out on their blank plywood perches.

FEIT Installation One: Raw Elements Of Construction


FEIT Installation One: Raw Elements Of Construction
FEIT Installation One: Raw Elements Of Construction
FEIT Installation One: Raw Elements Of Construction