Design Rendering of NOLA COOL, French Quarter Wine Bar and Shopping Experience
 

NOLA COOL

LOCATION: Vieux Carre, New Orleans, Louisiana

PROGRAM: Wine Bar and Curio Shop

CLIENT(S): Confidential

STATUS: Design

PROJECT TEAM: GOAT (Architecture and Interiors)

 

NOLA COOL is a contemporary curio shop combined with an upscale wine bar, creating a one-of-a-kind shopping and dining experience in the Vieux Carre. Just off iconic Jackson Square in the Pontalba Building, GOAT was commissioned to re-imagine the space with a historically complimentary, yet modern, aesthetic. The resulting design proposal plays off of the playful juxtaposition of the opposing programs, blending the retail and dining components without a clear distinction between the two, allowing the store’s retail products to act as the restaurant’s décor, or vice versa.

GOAT team: Joanna Tanasescu, Paula Bechara, Colin VanWingen, Peter Spera III

 
Design Rendering of NOLA COOL, French Quarter Wine Bar and Shopping Experience

GOAT imagined NOLA COOL as the French Quarter drawing room of an eclectic collector, a place for entertaining guests, filled with conversation pieces, eye candy in every corner, and overflowing with allusions to the building’s storied past.