Michelson Studio - m Studio - Eric Michelson Photography

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MSTUDIO is located at 163 Bank street, between Washington Street and the west side highway, one block north of West 11th street.

Overlooking the Hudson River, the space is architecturaly progressive in a fifties/sixties motif with furnishings included in the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. During daylight hours natural light bathes the studio from early morning til sunset through the 50 eight foot windows accessing unobstructed views east, south, and west over the hudson river. At night the studio view is of the evening river traffic from the Statue of Liberty to the Jersey Cliffs.

The interior of the space is covered with light maple wood with a semigloss coating. The walls are stark white covered with art ranging from 18th c. Venetian paintings to photographs by Joel Peter Witkin. An industrial theme vibrates through the studio space from riveted steel bathrooms: to massive hinges: to vault doors: to a poured concrete kitchen.

MSTUDIO can be divided easily into two separate spaces by closing 2 fourteen foot doors and still be visually accessable atop a flight of free standing metal stairs with a mezzanine overlooking both spaces. Shoji screens 15 foot high of steel and rice paper/plexi break up the minimalist design adding flow and visual interest.

TECHNICAL ASPECTS:

8000 square foot natural light
3 exposures east south and west
8000 square foot roof (open only to photo shootings)
15' ceilings
split levels
3 bathrooms / metal / marble / mesopotamian

Eames / Bertoia / Noguchi / Mies van de Rohe / Arno Jacobsen / Eileen Gray / Saarinen
5 line 10 station merlin+ 400 amp 3 phase 2 separate audio systems / 200 watt adcom / California audio labs / superfon / nikko