Arched niches present stations for tattoo artists at Atelier Eva, positioned in a former Brooklyn ironmongery shop remodeled by designer Alp Bozkurt.
The Atelier Eva Grand Road parlour is the second in Brooklyn run by tattoo artist Eva Karabuda, who’s famend for her detailed, micro-realism tattoos.
“Created with an formidable imaginative and prescient to reimagine tattoo tradition following Eva’s personal experiences feeling uncomfortable and unsafe as a lady in her early work environments, Atelier Eva affords a brand new form of tattooing expertise with the aim of offering an inclusive and welcoming setting for all individuals,” mentioned the studio.
Whereas her first location on Havemeyer Road was designed in home, Karabudak turned to Alp Bozkurt for the Grand Road house – which at 3,000 sq. toes (280 sq. metres) is sort of twice the dimensions.
The constructing dates again to 1895 and was initially constructed as a ironmongery shop, occupying a single story house that extends 115 toes again from the road facade.
Authentic options corresponding to massive roof trusses, skylights and brick partitions had been all restored and highlighted in the course of the renovation work.
The trusses are painted black, drawing the attention as much as the ceiling, whereas the remaining structural components are whitewashed for a clear look.
“A distilled materials palette is deployed to create a heat and calming setting from in any other case industrial supplies retaining the constructing’s authentic ethos,” mentioned Bozkurt.
Wrapping the perimeter of the inside are translucent polycarbonate panels that sit a couple of inches in entrance of the brickwork, unifying the sequence of areas.
All the way in which round, arches puncture the panels to border authentic corbeling, and reveal different historic components.
Within the entrance of the studio, beside the floor-to-ceiling glass facade, one arch offers a backdrop for a seating space with boucle-covered chairs, and pendant lights by Equipment above.
Behind a pink-concrete reception counter is a session space, shrouded by a sheer curtain suspended from a curved metallic monitor.
“Guests are supplied glimpses of exercise within the studio flooded by pure gentle whereas the artists and their purchasers preserve privateness,” Bozkurt mentioned.
The group of artists providing a variety of tattoo types and piercings work within the massive house past, the place every is allotted a station aligned with an arch.
Foldable padded tables for purchasers to put on, stools for the artists and cupboards for storing gear all tuck neatly into these niches when not in use.
The open house – which additionally hosts inventive gatherings and occasions – is sparsely populated, aside from a central pink-concrete planter that matches the session desk and the counter.
Collectively, Bozkurt’s interventions create “a fastidiously choreographed sequence of experiences via various levels of transparency supplied by numerous design components”.
Different tattoo parlours with unconventional interiors embody a minimalist house in Kyiv with holes slashed via its partitions, a stark monochromatic house in New York and a studio in Paris that includes curtains printed with Hieronymus Bosch work.
The pictures is by Atticus Radley.
