Just 18 months after Turkish tattoo artist Eva Karabudak announced her first studio (complete with second-floor loft and Japanese-inspired garden) on Williamsburg’s buzzy Havemeyer Street, she returned with partner Peter Jenkins to open Atelier Eva’s second location close by on Grand Street. Alp Bozkurt has reimagined the building, its origins dating to an 1895 hardware store, as a progression of transparencies: once clients penetrate the retail footprint facing the street, they sink deeper into the 3,000-square-foot space via a series of archways—a reflection of the whimsical, round portals that often appear in Karabudak’s work—that gradually reveal artist stations, timber trusses, preserved skylights, and gathering spaces.
Walls of polycarbonate panels unify the 115-foot-deep studio, complimented by slick charcoal and eggshell palettes illuminated by fixtures from Apparatus and Flos. A Togo Sofa offers a soft resting spot, perfumed by a signature gardenia candle by Joya Studio, for clients to consider their next tattoo—or perhaps a piercing, the 21st-century hardware of choice.
