All Photos By Gail

Dining By Design takes place in New York City each year in conjunction with The Architectural Digest Design Show. This collection of high-end, conceptual dining environments is sponsored by DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS) to raise awareness and funds in support of the organization’s work to fight HIV/AIDS. In the coming weeks, I’ll be showcasing my favorite installations from Dining By Design in the Eye on Design space. This week we are featuring Us is More created by INC Architecture & Design.

In this tableau, individual ribbons and imperfect patches of color converge, creating a playful and experiential landscape. An everyday building material (wood) forms the singular core of the installation’s structure, elevated and layered upon by expressive gestures of vibrant color.

These layers are the building blocks that create a dynamic, three-dimensional painting in our ordinary world, where vibrant, expressive gestures elevate simple forms and materials. Alone, they are rather unremarkable, but together they are unforgettable. At this table, and life’s core, us is always more.

The installation’s rainbow color palette was inspired by the visualization of a film still from the rock biopic The Runaways, created by the Instagram account @ColorPalette.Cinema, which takes stills from classic films and adds color-coded swatches beneath them, revealing the essence of the visual language of film.

Design by Inc Architecture and Design, with Lennie Construction Corporation, and Mehovi Painting Inc. (Paint by Benjamin Moore). Additional services by Ventresca Design in partnership with Color Kinetics, LED-Linear, Loupi Lighting, Electric Light Agencies and Lights on West. Tableware by Colony.