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Transparent refrigerators inside the shop. Wood-paneled interior of Fruitive.

CityCenter’s vanilla box. “We tried to utilize the vitrine
window as much as we could to make it more like a
retail experience, with the library piece as a backdrop
to that,” Warren said. “You get this lined idea with the
wood of the library piece breaking the cold materials of
glass as you’re looking through the juices and display
refrigerators. We framed things in the vitrine so that
you look through the product into the space.”
Just to the left of the entry is a cozy sitting area for
two, which, despite its position beside a floor-to-ceiling
window, is an easy space to miss if you’re not looking for
it. Warren refers to this area alternatingly as a reading
nook or a snug, the latter a reference to the sometimes
clandestine sipping rooms in Irish pubs—his brother
was managing one while Warren and Teass were in
design development.
For Teass and Warren, Fruitive revisits a project
with which they were already familiar—the pair cut
their teeth at Shalom Baranes Associates Architects,
which master planned and was architect of record for
the CityCenterDC development. Still, despite their
understanding of the intricacies of the complex, they
found surprises in the form of a major transfer beam
immediately beneath their new client’s space as well
as an HVAC unit located 14 feet off the finish floor.
Working simultaneously on the production kitchen at

78 JUICY DESIGN Main ordering counter.