let there be dark.

The article focuses on the project of architect Robin Elmslie Osler for La Boutique, a photography retouching studio in New York with clients including Chanel and Vogue Italia, where an absence of light is actually required. Osler was charged with retaining the 2,300-square-foot space's industrial chic, a look quite unlike the futuristic interior at La Boutique's Parisian parent company, B'Pong. Her minimalist envelope relies solely on neutrals: a floor of ground and polished concrete, white walls, and an exposed ceiling.