Jess & Ryan

The whole design brief was subtraction. They picked a room that already looked like something and then spent the budget on light, flowers and a bar rather than on covering any of it up.

Jess and Ryan took over a former shop floor in South Philadelphia and left almost all of it alone: exposed brick, a freight lift that everybody wanted a photograph in, and cafe lights strung so low the tallest guests learned to duck. The greenery was the only softening they allowed, and it was everywhere: trailing off the bar, down the stair rail, over the DJ booth.