Artist Melissa Marks and interface designer Vicente Caride decided to renovate their Manhattan home to provide some privacy for their son Archie, and they let their common love of LEGOS guide the project.
Melissa and Vicente cooked up the concept with Suzan Wines of I-Beam Design, then they pulled in LEGO artist Sean Kenney. It took two weeks of fourteen hour days for Kenney and his team to assemble the wall and staircase consisting of 20,000 LEGO bricks. The form and colors of the LEGOS provide a motif that is carried throughout the apartment, and Archie and friends continue to add structures to the staircase.
• See more of the apartment in the current issue of New York Magazine.
(Images: Thomas Loof for New York Magazine)
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My son would flip out if he saw this! Can you say Lego fanatic! I'll be sure to not show this to him! :0
Pretty amazing, but is that really all the photos we get to see?
Given the cost of LEGOs these days.....
meh...
Can you imagine the fumes in a house fire? Yeek!
Oh, AT. I love you, but the way you focus and focus and focus on: legos as decoration, the use of chalk paint, CA cottages...Can you come up with something new once and a while?
I'd hate to see what would happen if someone accidently tripped and fell into that that loft's wall.
As someone that spent probably tens of thousands of hours playing with LEGOs as a child, I can appreciate this even if I wouldn't want to live with them full time. However, I would not like to find out what the toxicity of LEGO fumes are in a house fire. That's a serious issue and the reason they have laws about building materials, so you don't get knocked out from fumes and can't escape the fire. Who knows if LEGOs have been properly vetted for that use?
Marin foodie - Please don't remind AT about chalkboard paint; I haven't seen any for a brief period and I'd like to enjoy that break. Soon we'll see chalkboard pain on LEGOs in a cottage with a painted antique dresser.
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Very cute, but one wonders what could have been done with the money spent on 20,000 legos and a crew that worked fourteen hours a day for two weeks, so that a child could have a cute bedroom for a couple of years.
I'm sure the workers were happy to have a job.
Cool looking room. I would have loved it as a kid.
That's beautiful. I would assume the lego is either heavily reinforced or a shell over stronger building materials? I remember the fate of all those towers I built as a kid...
The Legos are ok. However, the artwork on the walls is fantastic.
As for the toxicity of the wall, it's not any different than having a large lego collection. I don't think very many children's toys will smell very good while burning, regardless of whether or not they're made into a wall.
Does the artwork remind anyone else of three men and a baby? I'm not saying I hate it, but I just have this version of Steve guttenberg lurking just out of sigsht with that tiger puppet of hi
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How cool is that it seems to work better than the full size, full LEGO one James May (guy out of UK topgear TV Show) made. I watched it on a TV show once see here thanks to daily mail in the UK (article) http://goo.gl/Ye2Un
My BIL would love this. It would probably be his personal heaven.
0tk421 - This took 20,000 legos... a bit larger then the average kids collection. Plus, since the kid is such a fan, its safe to assume that he still has a large amount of them to actually play with too.
That being said, I really like the little built in windows.... but still don't think this is safe.