The Chetrit Group has signed a 28,000 s/f deal to bring the interactive
French art gallery Atelier Des Lumières to 49 Chambers Street.
Created by Culturespaces, the Atelier Des Lumières (Studio
of Lights) has drawn over three million visitors since it first opened in Paris
in 2018. A second space created in a former submarine base in Bordeaux in June
2020, has welcomed more than 300,000 visitors in its first three months.
The immersive art venue showcases work from artists such as
Leonardo da Vinci, Gustav Klimt and Claude Monet projected in such a way as to
surround visitors and are accompanied by a soundtrack. The digital artwork
wraps around all four walls and is projected onto the floor and the structures
within the space.
At 49 Chambers Street, the exhibitions will be designed to complement the venue’s interiors of marble, columns, bank tellers, stained glass windows and sculptures, according to a spokeswoman. Woods Bagot is restoring the banking hall and converting it for use as a digital gallery.
It will be called the Hall des Lumières and is set to open
in on the ground floor of the building in 2021/2022 under a “multi-year
agreement” with the Chetrit Group.
The Hall des Lumières will use advanced and unique
technology to create immersive exhibitions dedicated to some of the most
celebrated figures in art history.
In partnership with fashion and events marketing giant IMG, Culturespaces
will also stage major cultural and art events and international exhibitions
including Frieze art fairs, New York Fashion Week: The Shows, and the
Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh exhibition.
The Chetrit Group is converting the former Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank, a beaux-arts landmarked building across from City Hall Park, into a 99-unit condo building. Douglas Elliman is marketing the residential portion of the property where currently available units are priced from $1.995 million.
