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Boudoir Babylon Café represents a design collaboration between Adam Nathaniel Furman and Sibling Architecture, commissioned for the NGV Triennial 2020 in Melbourne.
The project transforms NGV’s Gallery Kitchen with three distinct spatial typologies – the boudoir, the salon and the club – serving as inspiration. All three locations are considered as safe spaces for those with identities outside of the norm, mainly women, the queer community as well as people with different political or religious beliefs and other marginalised sections.
With an aim to challenge, subvert and rethink norms of how people come together and socialise, the designers used geometric forms, gender-stereotyped colours and symbolic imagery based on body parts to create vibrant, theatrical scenography. Elements such as a circular catwalk or carousel in the centre, painted modesty screens (found in 18th century boudoirs) that create individual spaces for people who li
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Completed in 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Images by Tom Ross, Sean Fennessy, Eugene Hyland. This project, by Adam Nathaniel Furman and Sibling Architecture, transforms NGV’s Gallery Kitchen for NGV Triennial 2020 by drawing inspiration from.