OWEN 809 Washington Street NY, NY 10014
In 2010 Phillip Salem graduated from FIT with a BA in fashion merchandise management and dreams of opening his own store. This weekend his dream became a reality, a highly curated reality. The men’s section at OWEN is a well-edited selection of NYC favorites including Simon Spurr, Patrik Ervell, Wood Wood, Tim Hamilton, Surface 2 Air, Rogan, Warriors of Radness and Robert Geller. As impressive as the selection is the most striking feature of the store are the 25,000 brown paper lunch bags that cover an entire wall and ceiling.
TACKLEBOX Architecture
OWEN was designed by Jeremy Barbour of Williamsburg-based Tackelbox Architecture. Since founding Tackelbox in 2006 Barbour has worked with several fashion and retail brands from stores like Aesop, Saipua and Phillip Lim to design showrooms for Vena Cava and Shipley & Halmos. Barbour has developed a reputation for using natural materials to create unique spaces. For Aesop’s first stand-alone U.S. store on Elizabeth Street he covered the walls in 3,000 hand-shredded New York Times newspapers. At Saipua he used reclaimed silver-stained pine siding from an 1890 Shaker barn to create a rustic feeling in the 700-square foot Brooklyn boutique. Tacklebox’s goal is to “reclaim common, ordinary or otherwise overlooked materials, removing them from their given context and using them in a new and extra-ordinary way… to foster a sense of timelessness.” Mission accomplished.
From top to bottom: OWEN, Aesop, 3.1 Phillip Lim & Saipua
Photos of OWEN: Juliana Sohn
All other photos: TACKLEBOX Architecture
