Portside
at East Pier
Boston, MA
Grand Image's collaboration with Roseland Property Company has resulted in a custom art installation to match the visionary excellence of one of Boston's top new luxury buildings. The Portside East Pier complex provides the city's movers and shakers with an exclusive waterfront home, the location's nautical-industrial link inspiring us to embark on a voyage of imagination.
The scope of our talented team's ability to fabricate and design with a wide range of mediums and play with dimensions is evident from entrance to rooftop, sourcing everything from propeller blades to sailcloth. Nowhere is this more evident than with the original commission from The Studio – a 3D mariners' rope sculpture whose geometric shapes wrap around painted cleats. More nautical nuances are found in the lobby where a gallery includes a trio of vintage bathing beauties hanging alongside naval signal flags and fine art canvases with rope and cleat hangings.
Architectural Designer Hariri Pontarini Architects
Developer Brookfield Properties
Our art advisors enjoy the challenge of finding design solutions for a diverse collection of spaces which, at East Pier, range from a fitness center to a craft room. A collection of rigid substrate prints showcase our creative versatility using an array of materials with chromalux white aluminum the choice for the large-scale 'Swan Boats' piece , by local artist Zach Lenoue. A corridor wall continues this design innovation with a historic stereographs of Boston Harbor and East Boston printed on plywood, sending a message that says although we represent a leap into the future for this city built around the water we haven't forgotten its backstory.
In another of our interior design interpretations of the ties between heritage and 21st-century living, two eye-catching artworks enliven public spaces within steps of each other. A mirror print of an old railway bridge sits within a beautiful custom-made frame in brushed silver, its monochrome tones contrasting magnificently with the bright shipping container blocks of Van Hoang's original fine art canvas.
Luxury, sense of place, and waterside living are what Portside offers and Grand Image's art solutions have helped develop each of those themes, just as they uniquely narrate Boston's story and the elements of its go-getter style.
