Newcomer Kikski tapped to design new restaurant.Pichet Ong, long the pastry chef to Jean Georges at 66, Spice Market and Perry Street, has chosen Andre Kikoski for his first solo project: a jewel box West Village shop/bar/restaurant, aptly named P*ONG. This 750 s/f space will have 28 seats, 12 being at the bar, designed by architect Kikoski, who designed the aqueous restaurant Suba. The designer's premise for the space is clean and clearly reflects the modernity of Ong's creativity and the playfulness of his subject matter--a melange mé·lange also me·lange n. A mixture: "[a] building crowned with a mélange of antennae and satellite dishes" Howard Kaplan. of modern materials and sublime colors. The firm was also recently named as one of Ten Young Firms to Keep an Eye On to watch. - Shak. See also: Eye by the AIA AIA - Application Integration Architecture New York Chapter magazine, Oculus oculus (Latin: “eye”) In architecture, any of several elements resembling an eye, such as a round or oval window or the round opening at the top of some domes (see Pantheon). , and one of The New Garde of Ten Designers To Watch, by New York Magazine. The firm has received a nomination in the James Beard Foundation Awards for Outstanding Restaurant Design, as well as a Lumen Award for Lighting Excellence and the Edwin Guth Memorial Award from the International Association of Lighting Designers International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) was founded in 1969 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Its mission is "to serve the IALD worldwide membership by promoting the visible success of its members in practicing lighting design. . |
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