In New York’s Gramercy Park neighborhood Maharam’s new showroom offers a serene sanctum with its airy historic renovation and a pleasing gridded motif. The textile manufacturer’s new 3,500-square-foot space, which also includes textiles from Edelman and Knoll Textiles, offers a grandiose remix of the elegant, sparse design vocabulary that is threaded throughout all of Maharam’s outlets. Colorful textile sample squares ranging from nubby tweeds to delicately patterned vinyl and butter-soft leather are framed artfully by the warm grain of solid fir and marine plywood displays.
The fabric giant’s distinctive spatial style has been fine-tuned and perfected across the better part of two decades by the architect Neil Logan. Logan, who has since applied his understated, wood-forward sensibility to projects that span suspended Supreme skate bowls and white-cube galleries, was first approached by Michael and Stephen Maharam to design their Chicago showroom in 2000. “It was a process of getting to know what I was interested in doing and what they were interested in doing,” Logan told AN Interior about the partnership. “Over a long period of time, over years and years, we gradually came into a whole rhythm and developed a kind of vocabulary for what would be in these showrooms.”
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