In collaboration with Reunion, Crème, and We Come in Peace, Montgomery was commissioned to design the interior of the Vine restaurant in New York City, with a focus on material exploration and experiential depth.

A central feature of the project is a large-scale knitted installation—developed with a team of artists using oversized, custom-fabricated knitting needles—which also functions as a lighting element. The piece emerged through an iterative process of experimentation across material, technique, and scale.

The design invites occupants to reconsider the aesthetic value of imperfection. By working with loose tension and selectively manipulating the knit, we introduced variation, unevenness, and distortion—amplifying, rather than correcting, these conditions.

In this way, the installation operates as both a functional element and a spatial gesture—foregrounding the beauty of deviation and process.

This reflects a central belief in my practice: that creative expression often emerges most powerfully in the tension between precision and flaw.