Card board edition of HABEAS LOUNGE now on view!

Visitors to the LOUNGE these past weeks have noticed that the original red LOUNGE has been replaced by stacks and stacks of card board. For this edition, LA based sustainable architect Nina Barbuto has recreated the LOUNGE from used cardboard. We are VERY grateful to area merchants, and even those on the westside, especially Helen's Cycles for their used bicycle boxes.

Says Nina: The material cardboard finds itself in everyone's life at some point. It's the box you open to find a new thing in the mail or from the store. It's the box you packed all your things in that define you as you move to a new home across the street/town/country. It's the box that now is your home in the Second Street Tunnel. Protector, trash to treasure, cardboard lends itself with its embedded structural system to hold us when we are down and keep our futures safe. So this recycled cardboard couch can hold you as you converse and connect over politics and culture.

Below - the original HABEAS LOUNGE in 1 NY Plaza, in Manhattan's Financial District February this year, with the focus on the economy.