The curved windows of Le Corbusier's Ronchamp chapel influenced the series of arched nooks used for displaying lights at Allied Maker's new showroom in New York.

Located at 81 Franklin Street in Manhattan's Tribeca neighbourhood, the space was formerly a dentist's offices but now serves as Allied Maker's first retail space.
The brand will use it to showcase and sell its lighting products, which are designed and manufactured in Long Island.

Allied Maker founders, husband-and-wife Lanette and Ryden Rizzo, enlisted Brooklyn-based architecture practice Mesarch Studio to design the interior.

Throughout the space, the team added deep display nooks that echo the shapes of windows at modernist architect Le Corbusier's Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut ? considered one of the most important buildings of the 20th century.
Arches also feature prominently at the showroom, either as openings between rooms or to create more niches for displaying lighting.

Other recesses puncture the walls in square and circular shapes as a reference to the studio's lighting designs, which similarly exploit a range of geometries.

"The niches in the west wall were originally inspired by the deep and randomly placed light-filled windows at Le Corbusier's chapel in Ronchamp and served as a way to display their lighting fixtures," said Mesarch Studio in a statement.
"The archways around the showroom, an obvious departure from Corb's vision, echoed the geometry in some of the brand's more popula...