New York Public Library

Completed 2000

New York, New York

Renovation of historic Gottesman Hall, and the renovation and redesign of the Wachenheim Room. Imrey Culbert designing new steel and glass display cases, a reusable modular partition wall system, and state-of-the-art lighting systems. Gottesman Hall had become marked by outdated casework, crude walls that masked and conflicted with the original ornate architecture, and a lighting system that provided no ambient light. In response to these problems, we designed a flexible casework system of free standing movable wall cases with fiber optic lighting.