Store Front
March 11–May 16, 2021

Beginning March 11, Demisch Danant invites three creatives to design its storefront windows on historic W 12th St in the West Village.  Editor Dung Ngo, artist David Hartt, and floral designer Emily Thompson will each apply their unique design perspective on structure, form, and architecture to provoke the senses, instigate curiosity in passersby and contribute to the cultural experience of the street.

New York's storefronts constitute the city's vernacular architecture.
(New Yorker, 2009)

They are identifying fixtures of the neighborhoods they serve. 30 W 12th St was the home of legendary S.F. Vanni, the oldest Italian bookstore in America. Neighbors still remember the pale blue curtains that covered the storefront from 1940 – 2016.  One can still see the visual hallmarks indicative of Demisch Danant’s storied past, such as its door’s brass hardware and its letter box.

March 11-28
Dung Ngo, Editor-in-Chief of AUGUST: A Journal of Travel + Design, conducts architecture and design research through travel and writing.

Traveling is, itself, the experience—but often a memento from the trip jolts and amplifies the memory. Souvenirs is composed of objects that I have collected over the past decades of travel: local crafts, vintage flea market finds, and especially photo books—all things that continue to bring me closer to the far-flung places that I hope we all will be able to visit again soon. 
–Dung Ngo

The Souvenirs installation includes a collaboration collage, Trip Itinerary, by the illustration artist Rob Wilson, who also provided the hand painted graphics.

On view from March 11 through May 16, 2021, Store Front continues Demisch Danant’s exploration of the intersection of architecture, design and art.