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NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER

Location: Dallas
Designer: Charles Sparks & Company
General Contractor: Direct to owner
Materials Used: Oak

Charles Sparks& Company was commissioned by the Raymond Nasher Foundation to act as the retail consultant responsible for the design and functional requirements for the shop and to coordinate closely with the museum’s architect, world-renowned Renzo Piano.

The 810-square-foot shop, located adjacent to the museum’s main entry, was conceived as a seamless blending with the museum and as a part of the transition between the busy street and the calm of the galleries and sculpture garden inside. The back wall blends in with the building through the design of a series of built-in niches finished in the base building wall paint. Merchandise fixtures adjacent to the stone side wall are designed as glass and float away from these walls.

When no lighting was available at the storefront window, we designed internal uplighting in low base units through clear glass risers above to avoid visual blockage. To promote effective circulation, large-scale fixed and nested tables along an axis were carefully spaced around a central cash wrap and showcase island, which serves to define a simple circulation pattern.