Sunday, January 08, 2006

If it isn't obvious enough

Was at Zouk for the New Year countdown and Danny Tenaglia was spinning at Zouk.

Was on the zouk dancefloor for a few minutes and that was I noticed that the decorations hanging from the ceiling were clocks inspired by Dali's In Persistence of Memory.And doves were found on the ceiling within the members' bar.







In Persistence of Memory (with melting clocks and dead birds)


That's on top of the already Dali-esque pillars that support the new members' bar area. The pillars remind me of the Metamorphosis of Narcissus.






Metemorphosis of Narcissus (figure looking like pillars)

Zouk is taking on a very neo-catalunian feel to the whole place. As it is, the club was inspired by Gaudi's Park Guell. With the new shared fountain basin (Zouk had an interior fountain previously) in between the female and male toilets in Zouk and other mosaic shards features.....I used to have a minor grouse with a part of the club though. Moorish architecture definitely influenced many of Spainish architects and artists. So in keeping with the whole spain thing going in Zouk, the terraced seats that round along the side towards the members' bar entrance, has arches that are not moorish. Moorish arches are more circular and looks almost like a horseshoe. That's until I found out that the shape of the arches in Zouk are segmental. Some refer them as Syrian arches.

Enlightenment.

1 comment:

von said...

i was at zouk near xmas period, and they had huge candy canes and dolls hanging from the ceiling. those dolls made it look like halloween! quite scary. hahaha.