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Almada Sails By Craig Bromberg DECEMBER 1989 — Imagine the shell of Manhattan’s M.K. club without the memorable four-poster bed, faux Miró, and porcelain tub, and you might have some idea of the club that Carlos Almada, M.K.’s designer, might come up with when left to his own devices: something like Almada’s yet-to-be-named night spot, opening this month in a former power station in downtown Manhattan. Almada—an Argentinean who moved to New York six years ago after a long stint in Rio—is an architect by trade, but lately he’s been straying far from his profession (he’ll soon direct writer Glenn O’brien’s theatrical debut at the La MaMa theater). “M.K. was in a bank, so we designed it for bankers,” says the ebullient conceptualizer. “But my club is about the possibilities of production, about America. So we designed it in a factory.” |
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