Brinkworth suspends wooden skateboarding bowl inside San Francisco's Supreme store
London design studio Brinkworth has built an elevated skateboarding bowl inside this Supreme store in San Francisco that reverberates sounds "like a huge speaker".
The Supreme store is in the city's Mid-Market neighbourhood, in a retail space on the ground floor of an industrial building renovated by UK practices Brinkworth and Wilson Brothers.
The duo worked together 10 years ago to design Supreme's London store, and then later for the California project with Supreme's founder James Jebbia.
A focal point of the store is an elevated bowl for skateboarding inside the retail shop, positioned in the rear of the space. It is built with a curved, wood exoskeleton and textured lacquer, and hung from the ceiling rather than supported on the ground. The wooden bowl was fabricated and installed by Steve Badgett and his studio SIMPARCH.
The underside is left exposed and visitors can walk underneath. As people skate it, the hollow space enhances the loud sounds that clamour across the store.
"The bowl is like a huge speaker," said Adam Brinkworth, who founded Brinkworth in 1990. "Getting immersed in the thunderous sound of it being ridden makes my hair stand on end."
Brinkworth also created two short videos "inspired by the roar of the bowl and the unmistakable noise of skating the city" for the San Francisco Supreme store. One features sounds of the bowl being skated alongside dark, minimal photos by Phil Young of London film studio The Migh...
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