Rockwell Group
Rockwell Group is a New York based firm internationally known in the architecture world for its craftsmanship and unique blend of the experiential and the theater of design. The firm has created award-winning spaces for clients that include museums, cultural centers, children's hospitals, restaurants, libraries and Broadway shows. Rockwell group is recognized for its use of innovative materials in unconventional ways to evoke both the history and future of a space. The cross-disciplinary firm is currently working on such projects as the interior for the DoubleTake art exhibition at Seattle's Experience Music Project; the Jet Blue terminal at JFK airport; Steelstax, a cultural and performing arts education center in Bethlehem, PA; the Elinor Bunin Film Center at Lincoln Center in New York; and a number of NYC public school libraries for the Robin Hood Foundation.
DoubleTake: From Monet to Lichtenstein challenges the audience to look at pairs, typically placing a 19th century Impressionist or Neo-Impressionist piece next to a more contemporary work of art. To complement this concept, Rockwell designed a series of freestanding art panels on which a single pair would hang. The panels float away from the existing walls, floors and ceiling of the room to allow the artworks to be viewed in their own “mini-galleries.” Rockwell designed an aluminum sandwich panel with an ultra-thin 4mm profile that can be curved to a precise 45 foot radius, using huge steam–rollers from the old shipyards of Seattle’s waterfront. The curved art panels are covered in seamless Belgian artists’ linen, alluding to the painter’s craft and giving warmth and texture. The background walls of the Gallery are covered in a dark, textured fabric that absorbs noise and the floor is a deep-hued designed carpet tile, so that everything but the artwork itself appears to recede into darkness and quiet.
Rockwell Group is a New York based firm internationally known in the architecture world for its craftsmanship and unique blend of the experiential and the theater of design. The firm has created award-winning spaces for clients that include museums, cultural centers, children's hospitals, restaurants, libraries and Broadway shows. Rockwell group is recognized for its use of innovative materials in unconventional ways to evoke both the history and future of a space. The cross-disciplinary firm is currently working on such projects as the interior for the DoubleTake art exhibition at Seattle's Experience Music Project; the Jet Blue terminal at JFK airport; Steelstax, a cultural and performing arts education center in Bethlehem, PA; the Elinor Bunin Film Center at Lincoln Center in New York; and a number of NYC public school libraries for the Robin Hood Foundation.
DoubleTake: From Monet to Lichtenstein challenges the audience to look at pairs, typically placing a 19th century Impressionist or Neo-Impressionist piece next to a more contemporary work of art. To complement this concept, Rockwell designed a series of freestanding art panels on which a single pair would hang. The panels float away from the existing walls, floors and ceiling of the room to allow the artworks to be viewed in their own “mini-galleries.” Rockwell designed an aluminum sandwich panel with an ultra-thin 4mm profile that can be curved to a precise 45 foot radius, using huge steam–rollers from the old shipyards of Seattle’s waterfront. The curved art panels are covered in seamless Belgian artists’ linen, alluding to the painter’s craft and giving warmth and texture. The background walls of the Gallery are covered in a dark, textured fabric that absorbs noise and the floor is a deep-hued designed carpet tile, so that everything but the artwork itself appears to recede into darkness and quiet.