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"Charlie Bird Restaurant Designed by Leroy Street Studio\nLeroy Street Studio designs New York's most buzzed-about new restaurant\n\"[Chef] Ryan Hardy and [sommelier] Robert Bohr took us to this place and it could not be more wretched. I could barely be inside of it,\" Leroy Street Studio architect Marc Turkel recalls of the once-delapidated space that now houses Charlie Bird, Hardy and Bohr's new restaurant in SoHo. \"By the second meeting, all we could do was show up with hammers and strip it out, and that was the most cathartic moment. We could do a whole project around the idea of subtraction.\"\n\"Ryan has an inner Californian dying to come out,\" Turkel says. \"He was trying to bring color into the project, and all the while he was dealing with these repressed architects. We love color, too, but feel it needs to be used judiciously. There was something about the black and yellow. It's very New York.\"\nLeroy Street Studio added industrial details to the bi-level space, including the steel siding on the marble bar. \"The marble on its own is very beautiful, but carries so many different references,\" Turkel explains. \"When you put a steel edge on it, it makes it chic in a different way, slightly tougher.\"\n\"I have to admit, I was nervous about the perforated-metal railings, but I love them,\" says Hardy. \"I'm a big fan of the industrial design of the 1950s. I could go on about the philosophy of food and how it all changed in the '50s. Those railings really speak to me. My fianc\u00E9e's father owns a metalworking company, and he did all of the metalwork.\"\nHardy was extremely involved in the design process and how it relates to his vision of cooking from scratch. \"I think that's what drove the architecture to have everything handmade, such as the tables and metalwork.\" And sometimes architecture and gastronomy intersect in unexpected ways. For a recent duck-egg pasta special, Hardy sourced eggs from his carpenter's young daughters, who were raising ducks for a school project."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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