He and his production designer, Jan Versweyveld, have created a furious and eerie fever dream of a show, with Alice Joan MacIntoshh) lying in a kind of macabre dentist's chair surrounded by objects (meant to be both real and dreamed) suspended on flexible floor-to-ceiling wires, a forest of them, lighted often with thunderstorm drama.
Sure, it's $3,000 a month for 1,000 square feet, it has flexible lease terms, vaulted ceilings, access to high speed internet, and is in the middle of beautiful South Park.
Herzog & de Meuron, the Swiss architecture firm best known for turning a London power plant into the Tate Modern, invented a flexible floodlight for the ceiling of an insurance company in Switzerland and has now put it into production.
The new theater, in a space that has a separate entrance and that many town-house owners would rent out as a one-bedroom apartment, is intimate and flexible, with black walls and ceilings and very little else that is fixed.
Walk into the store on the green in Weston (population 625) and the bell jingles, the wood floor creaks and the 1880s button-up ladies' shoes sway from the ceiling (near the Flexible Flyer sleds).
Renfro Design Group, the lighting design firm that has recently worked with the Morgan Library and Museum and the Frick Collection, has installed flexible lighting hidden in the coffered ceiling.
Looking across I could see the device's huge print head was connected to a flexible tube running down from the ceiling through which it could pour the heated plasticised material that will ultimately form the house's structure.
Mary LaRosa Lederer, brooklyn-real (917) 517-3260; www.brooklyn-real.com Open house Sunday, 2 to 4 p.m. MAINTENANCE: $650 a month PROS: The unit is spacious and flexible, with a graceful floor plan, high ceilings, wooden moldings, and a renovated kitchen.
The interior walls stop short of the skylight-riddled ceiling, conveying a temporary and flexible character.
