Blue hour in Frankfurt is not a long stretch of time but a short photographic window. For a few minutes the sky still holds color of its own while the lights of the city are already showing. That is the moment when an interior and the skyline can be held in one frame.
The moment inside the Henninger Tower
On the production at the Franziska in the Henninger Tower, that moment decided the set. Earlier, the window front is too bright; later it turns into a dark mirror. During the change, the curved bar, the brass lamps, the teal seating and the city on the horizon all stay readable at once.
The hour of the day replaces equipment
The skyline stays part of the place
That keeps the skyline from becoming a separate panorama. It stays part of a room people actually use – seen through a window, behind a bar, or from a terrace above the city.
