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Piece of Cake Pastry Shop
Petar Miskovic | |
| location | Zagreb |
| function | shop |
| contributed by | Krunoslav_Ivanisin |
This small pastry shop, located in one of Zagreb's many new shopping malls, is an interesting product of the collaboration between conceptual artist Ivana Franke and architect Petar Miskovic. Breaking away from the common practice of 'filling' a void with something that aspires to be different, they opted for a conceptually 'emptied' frame, replacing the usual tasteless extravaganza of colours and materials with almost nothing. The pastry shop space is in fact a truncated pyramid. The white surfaces of the spatial frame, the channels with neon tubes, the shelf counter and the orange signboard have been designed by applying the foreshortening perspective principle. This ancient tool for depicting architecture serves here in the construction of architecture not as space, but as a framed image. 'Piece of Cake' is the perfect name for the image described here - a minimalist joke with serious intent, which we enter to get our piece of cake.
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