Amazon Headquarters, NYC, Historic Lord and Taylor’s Building, 2023
Amazon Bird Cage
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Bird Cage
19' H x 18' W
Wrapped in a nest-like aura, this artwork transforms as you explore it from all perspectives. A vibrant exterior gives way to striking transparency inviting sunlight to cascade within. Its woven form symbolizes the technology and systems binding us together, while celebrating the physical spaces where intertwined memories are forged. Engaging from afar with rhythmic patterns over the steel structure, up close it unveils intricately hand-woven ropes undergoing a color transition across floors. This signifies the passage of time and the evolution of ideas. Beyond an art piece, it's a tribute to this historic textile building, bridging past technologies with the present.
880 Hours to create - Hand-woven ropes made from solution-dyed acrylic in 21 colors + Hand-dyed leather in 6 colors + Serrated Edge Steel Fins
Commissioned by Amazon + Indiewalls
Photography: Elliot Goldstein + Majid Aliyev
Architecture and Interiors: WRNS
Developer: Seneca Group
“A unique feature is the Bird Cage, inspired by the original café of the same name. The enclosed design provides a comfortable area to work and is clad in a commissioned piece of textile art by local artist, Brit Kleinman, harkening back to the building’s history in the textile industry.”
-Amazon
