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"Charlie Bird Restaurant Designed by Leroy Street Studio\nLeroy Street Studio designs New York\u2019s most buzzed-about new restaurant\n\u201C[Chef] Ryan Hardy and [sommelier] Robert Bohr took us to this place and it could not be more wretched. I could barely be inside of it,\u201D Leroy Street Studio architect Marc Turkel recalls of the once-delapidated space that now houses Charlie Bird, Hardy and Bohr\u2019s new restaurant in SoHo. \u201CBy the second meeting, all we could do was show up with hammers and strip it out, and that was the most cathartic moment. We could do a whole project around the idea of subtraction.\u201D\n\u201CRyan has an inner Californian dying to come out,\u201D Turkel says. \u201CHe was trying to bring color into the project, and all the while he was dealing with these repressed architects. We love color, too, but feel it needs to be used judiciously. There was something about the black and yellow. It\u2019s very New York.\u201D\nLeroy Street Studio added industrial details to the bi-level space, including the steel siding on the marble bar. \u201CThe marble on its own is very beautiful, but carries so many different references,\u201D Turkel explains. \u201CWhen you put a steel edge on it, it makes it chic in a different way, slightly tougher.\u201D\n\u201CI have to admit, I was nervous about the perforated-metal railings, but I love them,\u201D says Hardy. \u201CI\u2019m a big fan of the industrial design of the 1950s. I could go on about the philosophy of food and how it all changed in the \u201950s. Those railings really speak to me. My fianc\u00E9e\u2019s father owns a metalworking company, and he did all of the metalwork.\u201D\nHardy was extremely involved in the design process and how it relates to his vision of cooking from scratch. \u201CI think that\u2019s what drove the architecture to have everything handmade, such as the tables and metalwork.\u201D And sometimes architecture and gastronomy intersect in unexpected ways. For a recent duck-egg pasta special, Hardy sourced eggs from his carpenter\u2019s young daughters, who were raising ducks for a school project."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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