Color is a powerful thing. Emotional and expansive, the most compelling hues can’t help but define our homes, clothes, and objects by washing every facet of our being in their brilliance and personality. Championing this creative tenet is Gantri, the now decade-old lighting company who fundamentally changed how many creatives and designers conceptualize with light.
Designs from familiar faces in the industry, including Luca Nichetto, Louis Filosa, and Viviana Degrandi, are 3D printed, assembled, and shipped out quick––rapid response time just one benefit to the system established here. Extending their influence into the brick-and-mortar world for the first time, Gantri is proud to present The Shop, a space to welcome community and commerce, but most importantly, color.
A 1920’s autobody shop in the heart of the Mission District is the set and setting for the new creative hub. Sectioned into thirds, the first facet of The Shop serves as a showroom and community space, with color cards, spaces to rest, and a unique method of room division lacquered in the signature Gantri green. Tiles sit balanced upon one another, perpendicular to their neighbors below. This creates an almost scale-like appearance, undulating tones of green picking up light in slightly different amounts, creating a serpentine feel when viewed from afar.
The center of the shop serves as a flexible hub, to be utilized for whatever is most pressing at that moment. This gives the team space to host events, meetings, or breakout sessions, while still maintaining the polish of a showroom.
In the third quadrant, the team works the magic that has brought international acclaim––and more than a few copycats––throughout ten years in business. Functionally the engine room of the operation, material research, prototyping, and refinement all happen here under one roof. The streamlining of a process that once was so technically arduous and required a large amount of background knowledge is quite elegant, even more so when paired with the clean design Gantri is known for.
A showroom, community hub, design studio, and materials lab all in one, the space is simultaneously a stunning achievement of how ubiquitous the Gantri model has become, and inspires a strong future in the decades to come. They take being a part of their neighborhood seriously, and plan to call 10th Street home for the near and far future.
To learn more about The Shop, visit gantri.com.
Photography by Krescent Carasso.
