NYC Restaurant Interior or Black & White Drawing?
Whoa, look at the interior of this new Japanese restaurant in NYC called Shirokuro — all of the surfaces (floors, chairs, walls, counters, etc.) are painted to look like a 2-dimensional drawing. From Colossal:
“Shirokuro” translates to “white-black.” The New York Times shares that proprietor James Lim was inspired by an immersive, 2D restaurant he visited ten years ago in Korea, and he envisioned one of his own, now open in the East Village. To make the interior pop, he invited his friend, real estate agent and artist Mirim Yoo, to transform the space into an all-encompassing environment.
Here’s what it looks like with people and other non-b&w objects:
This reminds me of Alexa Meade’s work — it would be amazing to see a collab where Meade does up the servers (or guests) for a performance piece.
P.S. I want these 2-D Nikes. (via colossal)
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Actually, I think the origin of this sort of design began with Santa Fe’s Meow Wolf, going back at least ten years. The artist for their black-and-white room is Dylan Pommer.
https://credits.meowwolf.com/house-of-eternal-return/art-city/black-and-white-1920’s-cartoon-room/
We have one of these in Chicago! It’s called 2D restaurant, it’s very cool and kind of hard to look at, and I was stunned that the food is decent: https://www.2d-restaurant.com/
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The thing that's really wild is that there's no apparent shadow. Maybe it's an HDR trick from the camera or they have figured out how to turn off ambient occlusion IRL.
"Shirokuro" does literally translate to "white-black," but idiomatically it means "black and white." It's a cool concept that seems to just kind of organically pop up in cities here and there on its own nowadays, for whatever reason. The gimmick also kind of reminds me of JumpFromPaper, a Taiwanese purse/backpack maker whose products are designed to look like cartoon drawings.
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