Sereneco, Greenpoint Restaurant, NY Interior Design, Brooklyn Commercial Building, Architecture Photos
Sereneco Restaurant in New York
Dec 28, 2021
Design: Carpenter & Mason
Location: Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York, NY 10018, USA

Helmed by owner Billy Van Dolsen, Sereneco is a warm and relaxed neighborhood restaurant located on the ground floor of Greenpoint, Brooklyn’s historic Pencil Factory building.

Sereneco Restaurant
Carpenter & Mason’s design agenda was to create a space that makes people feel great, but ultimately talk about the food more than the design.

As a studio, Carpenter & Mason like to work very intuitively and think they achieved a space that feels like a reflection of Billy himself; incredibly thoughtful, yet understated. The architects didn’t even know that Billy was a Sommelier until reading his press kit and that perfectly sums up his personality.
Carpenter & Mason designed this space shortly after the quarantine lockdown ended and the importance of our relationship with the outside world was playing heavily in their minds. They started looking into local architecture that prioritizes the relationship between architecture and the natural environment and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian community immediately came to mind.

These are residential projects built in the mid-century so some concepts just don’t transfer easily to a commercial restaurant’s requirements, but they used their research to esta...