ORB packs design punch.Marc Dizon, Principal Partner of ORB, the Manhattan based architecture, interiors, and design group has designed the Buckler meanswear flagship store, located in the city's fashionable Meatpacking meatpacking or meat-processing, wholesale business of buying and slaughtering animals and then processing and distributing their carcasses to retailers. The livestock industry is among the largest in the world. District. Dizon, one of New York's hottest emerging designers, specializes in the creation of avant-garde retail, restaurant, and hotel space. "We wanted to be in the Meatpacking District and we wanted to be underground, so that's what we did, literally," said Dizon. The 3,000 s/f subterranean retail space, located in a former copper smelting smelting, in metallurgy, any process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore. Smelting processes vary in detail depending on the nature of the ore and the metal involved, but they are typified in the use of the blast furnace. factory, features design elements inspired by the installations of British artist Damien Hirst. Exposed wood beams run the length of the room with cast iron and wood columns supporting the ceiling and white porcelain walls. Full height glass walls separate the showroom and the office from the retail space. When lit from behind, the glass transforms into a dreamlike reflection of carved, vaulted spaces, but when lit from the front, the glass takes on a mirror effect showing a ghosted trace of the spaces beyond. "The de-lineation of reflection, translucency and transparency are concepts echoed in the final design of the Buckler store," he said. "The juxtaposition of the earthy earth·y adj. earth·i·er, earth·i·est 1. Of, consisting of, or resembling earth: an earthy smell. 2. Of or characteristic of this world; worldly. 3. and ethereal ethereal /ethe·re·al/ (e-ther´e-il) 1. pertaining to, prepared with, containing, or resembling ether. 2. evanescent; delicate. e·the·re·al adj. 1. elements came together in a critical transformation of form, function and space. We transformed a nearly impossible space into a fresh lifestyle vernacular where the consumer can engage in the Buckler Fantasy." Buckler is known for outfitting music legends Bruce Springstein, Tommy Lee This article is about the American drummer Tommy Lee. For other uses, see Tommy.
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