ESPRESSO FUTURISM
“Maverick ideas fueled her imagination. First came the notion of steam. Sure, it creates foam for espresso and macchiato drinks. For Patry it went beyond, leading to thoughts of steam engines for trains, which led to motion, which conjured up visions of Futurism, the early 20th-century Italian art movement celebrating dynamism and energy. In fact, she shared images of canvases by Tullio Cralli with Interior Design to make the point and aptly nicknamed her project “espresso futurism.”
INTERIOR DESIGN
Words: Edie Cohen
Photography: Fred Licht
“Thomas Williams’s mural of integrally colored, custom cement tiles, stretching behind and wrapping a perpendicular wall, suggests energetic movement, too. In this case, it’s ocean waves… “