First of August Shop

FIRST OF AUGUST SHOP

Location: New York, New York
Architect & Designer: George Ranalli
Project Team: Michael Monsky

First of August is the renovation of a clothing shop on Lexington Avenue in New York City. The scope consisted of renovating the second floor of the building and adding a new facade linking the second floor to the existing first floor. In an effort to create a facade unlike the adjacent commercial enterprises, brash commercialism and signage were avoided. The desire was to design a shop which would be expressive as architecture and related to the city.

PROJECT PUBLISHED:

AIA (American Institute of Architects Journal), July1978
L Architettura, February 1978
A+U (Architecture & Urbanism), December 1977
Baumeister, November 1977
Cree/ Architecture Interieure, May/June 1977
Interior Design, March 1977
Domus, July 1977
A.D. (Architectural Design), Vol. 7-8, 1977
Architecture Today, Charles Jencks, 1982
Neue Laden, Karl and Eva Mang, 1981
Decorative Art and Modern Interiors, Maria Schofield, 1978
Body, Memory, and Architecture, Charles Moore, 1977