OJAS Listening Room at USM Modular Is Shrine to Sound

Along with his affinity for brutalist business design paired with a collection of extremely tuned ears and eyes geared in opposition to antique hi-fi parts, Devon Turnbull and his corporate, OJAS have turn into common collaborators among a who’s who of creatives spanning from the overdue Virgil Abloh to Byredo’s founder and artistic director Ben Gorham. His newest venture is as modular as it’s musical, a semi-permanent set up throughout the USM Modular Furnishings’s Soho, New York flagship retailer imagined as a temple of sound for audiophiles and the curious alike.

Photograph: Lauren Coleman

Set with USM Modular Furnishings towering shelving machine stocked with information, books, and audio parts, the modular furnishings’s utilitarian aesthetic makes for a wonderful pairing fronted through OJAS’ in a similar fashion audio-aesthete’s capability. Created to ask listeners the chance to “enjoy a relaxing atmosphere to consider tune, liberated from the disruption of out of doors noise,”⁠ Turnball’s and USM collaborated to ascertain a listening room sharing the sensory focusing characteristics of a temple or shrine.

OJAS Listening Room at USM Modular Furnishings  – Devon Turnbull’s first semi-permanent listening room – integrates Kvadrat Acoustics Comfortable Cells acoustic panels on partitions and ceilings with a bespoke audio machine created through OJAS. Photograph: Lauren Coleman

The OJAS audio system with USM Haller case items are complemented with seating, and different furnishings designs. Photograph:Lauren Coleman.

OJAS Listening Room at USM Modular Furnishings stocks similarities to Turnbull’s fresh HiFi Listening Room Dream No. 1  (beneath) put in inside of London’s Lisson Gallery. However whilst that listening room devoted to “a democratic, public listening area, the place other folks may just enjoy tune thru a fine quality stereo machine with no need to possess it” exhibited a virtually desaturated minimalist setting ruled through the monolithic stature of OJAS’ signature grey audio system, Turnbull’s newest Listening Room turns of the dial a little in its retreat-like comforts with a couple of splashes of colour throughout its sparse seating.

Photograph: Lisson Gallery London Restricted

The OJAS Listening Room at USM Modular Furnishings set up is open to the general public and through appointments at USM Modular Furnishings Soho, 28-30 Greene St, New York, NY 10013.

Gregory Han is a Senior Editor at Design Milk. A Los Angeles local with a profound love and interest for design, climbing, tide swimming pools, and street journeys, a number of his adventures and musings will also be discovered at gregoryhan.com.