Nina Chanel Abney’s Art Enlivens MoMA Design Store In Soho

Miriam Peterson and Nathan Rich are completing Nina Chanel Abney's Hudson Valley studio, on the heels of reimagining New York’s MoMA Design Store, Soho, where Abney's Gotham-centric mural spans an entire wall. It’s one of many bright spots in the two-story project’s renovation, which was four years in the making—the 1884 cast-iron building it’s in is landmarked, and the shop had been largely untouched since opening in 2001—but, remarkably, required only a four-month store closure. That’s because PRO did what it does best, “revealing the original character and highlighting it with contemporary interventions,” Rich says. 

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