Commercial Spaces – Recycled Brooklyn

Today those chairs serve every customer in The Meatball Shop’s Upper East Side location.

THE MEATBALL SHOP

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He told us that he and his partner were expanding and were looking for a new chair design -- easy, right?

We met Michael Chernow, co-owner of NYC’s booming eatery The Meatball Shop, while we were working on our tans last summer at the Brooklyn Flea in Williamsburg. We had our booth set up near the entrance so he caught us right as he was coming in, he told us that he and his partner were expanding and were looking for a new chair design -- easy, right?

Turns out building the perfect chair is harder than it sounds (their old chairs had a tendency to tip over when heavy winter coats were draped over the backs), which is why we built 4 prototypes before we settled on a final design. Today those chairs serve every customer in The Meatball Shop’s Upper East Side location, feel free to throw whatever you want over the back because it isn’t going anywhere.

They measure 10-feet tall by 4-feet wide and were built using pine floor beams we salvaged from a building not six blocks away

Fabbrica

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Stop in and tell us they don’t compliment the lounge area perfectly (and try the Linguine Vongole while you’re at it).

When Alberto Baudo, owner of Williamsburg’s brilliant Italian restaurant Fabbrica, asks you to make him a couple of mirrors, you know immediately to say ‘yes’. Why? Because you don’t become a successful journalist/ photographer/ restaurant owner by taking ‘no’ for an answer. Also, because he’s a really nice guy with a great eye for design, as was apparent as soon as we stepped foot inside Fabbrica, his homage to industrial Italy. Zinc counters, exposed duct work, iron and glass shelving units….

A beautiful space for which were honored to build three massive mirrors. They measure 10-feet tall by 4-feet wide and were built using pine floor beams we salvaged from a building not six blocks away, stop in and tell us they don’t compliment the lounge area perfectly (and try the Linguine Vongole while you’re at it).

...a dozen pine tables with our custom steel swivel bases and another dozen using salvaged oak flooring with plumbing pipe for bases...

Crave Fish Bar

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Best of luck to Todd and everyone at Crave, they definitely deserve it.

A few years ago, Todd Mitgang and his partners in Crave Fishbar were enjoying the early success of their new venture when tragedy struck – a construction crane fell from the roof of a neighboring skyscraper and destroyed their months-old restaurant, a blow that the average owner might not have recovered from. Lucky for us, then, that the owners of Crave Fishbar are anything but average because man, did they ever recover.

The new Crave Fishbar was built in a gorgeous townhouse just across the avenue from where the accident occurred. We were contracted to build the 20-foot pine bar on the second floor, two 10-foot zinc tables, a dozen pine tables with our custom steel swivel bases and another dozen using salvaged oak flooring with plumbing pipe for bases. Add in the fir banquette tables and the zinc drink rails and you’ve got a job that we couldn’t say we’re more proud to have been a part of. Best of luck to Todd and everyone at Crave, they definitely deserve it.

From the iron and wood shelving to the cash counter to the fixtures in the kid's section and everything in between...

Powerhouse on 8th

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...your favorite independent bookstore/art event space in the shadow of the landmark Brooklyn Bridge

You know what's cooler than a husband and wife team who buck the system and open what will soon become your favorite independent bookstore/art event space in the shadow of the landmark Brooklyn Bridge? Okay, so there's not much cooler than that, but still -- when they open a second bookstore in the leafy Park Slop section of Brooklyn and ask you to work on all of the internal shelving/fixtures, you gotta be pretty happy.

Such was the case when Daniel Power and his wife Susanne, owners of the powerHouse Arena in DUMBO, asked us to work with them on their newest venture, powerHouse on 8th. From the iron and wood shelving to the cash counter to the fixtures in the kid's section and everything in between, we were more than thrilled to contribute to what will no doubt be a BK mainstay for years to come. Oh, and just for the record -- they carry the deepest selection of design books in NYC, do yourself a favor and stop by.

From the custom iron, glass and wood display counters to the floating shelves and the floor beam tables, we were proud to keep a few bits of old Brooklyn where they belong

Brooklyn Outdoor Provisions

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...an idea born out of his own love for the great outdoors and when he decided to stay in his own borough rather than head for the retail safety of Manhattan...

If there's one thing the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn is famous for, it's hiking, camping and an overall love for the American wilderness. Okay, so maybe that's not entirely true, but if Yehuda Solomon has anything to say about it, it soon will be with the opening of his new store Brooklyn Outdoor Provisions.

See, Yehuda had an idea born out of his own love for the great outdoors and when he decided to stay in his own borough rather than head for the retail safety of Manhattan, we were more than thrilled to be a part of it. From the custom iron, glass and wood display counters to the floating shelves and the floor beam tables, we were proud to keep a few bits of old Brooklyn where they belong -- right here at home.

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