Reclaimed Reinvented
by Jonathan Lerner
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White Provision, Atlanta, Georgia
All About
Morgan’s company name, Skylar Morgan Furniture + Design, well expresses what he does: designing and installing interior woodwork for both commercial and residential spaces, and conceiving and fabricating custom furniture pieces; he also produces his own limited-edition Doc range of unique tables and seating.
Furniture-maker Skylar Morgan Transforms “Junk Wood” with Modernist Ingenuity
Presented is an excerpt from the “Reclaimed/Reinvented” Feature in MA09 Guide Publication as written by Jonathan Lerner.
Atlanta’s most audacious combination of adaptive reuse and infill redevelopment is the White Provision project on Howell Mill Road. Once, the huge, virtually windowless former cold-storage warehouse presented a looming impasse at the end of Fourteenth Street. Now a section of the building has been cut away, allowing the street to continue into an urbanistic plaza. To one side is a new contemporary midrise with residences above shops. To the other, the old warehouse’s glassy new façade reveals an interior reconfigured into retail and office spaces. The structure’s original bones remain – heavy concrete posts and beams that make a grid against that transparent surface – in a deliberate coupling of the old with the new.
“It’s one of the best looking projects in town, and the best at showing how to reuse old buildings,” says Westside furniture designer Skylar Morgan. A committed modernist, Morgan appreciates its “whole minimal approach. For instance, the windows and doors are all very simple steel work, all matching. And it all flows. There’s no extravagance.” For the broad walkways that line the building, Morgan was commissioned to design benches. His solutions express that same spirit of simplicity and inventive reuse.
The complete “Reclaimed/Reinvented” feature and image are in MA09 Guide Publication which is out now.