Modern waiting area with a red sofa, silver chairs, potted plants, a low table, wall art, red curtains, and shelves with books and products on a concrete floor.

May 29, 2026

Words: Georgina McWhirter

Photography: Claire Esparros

Inside A Lower East Side Pole-Dancing Facility

Hot Shots: Office of Tangible Space

founders: Kelley Perumbeti and Michael Yarinsky
social: @tangible.space
project: Goodside Studios, New York

standout: Leveraging both cofounders’ experience running edgy exhibition spaces, the bicoastal design practice—with offices in Brooklyn, New York, and San Francisco—specializes in community-minded cultural spaces that foster a sense of belonging. Case in point: this Lower East Side pole-dancing facility opened by a former choreographer and art gallerist. Its basement studio is sensual in terra-cotta red, with walls adorned with racks for storing vertiginous heels and mirrors by Ready To Hang, their shapely forms nodding to hands on hips. In contrast, the street-level movement-practice area is light and airy, with a gridded walnut-and-oak floor and 16-foot poles—the city’s tallest. A run of velvety curtains buffers this zone from a lounge and a retail space, with cozy vignettes for dancers to chat and shop for books on art, design, feminism, and sex work. tangible.space

  • A man and a woman stand side by side indoors near a window, both looking at the camera with neutral expressions.
  • Dressing room area with orange walls, brown curtain, pink ballet pointe shoes on gold wall rods, and stylized wall-mounted B-shaped lights.
  • Three women practicing pole dancing in a spacious studio with wooden floors and neutral walls. One is climbing, one poses mid-air, and one is crouched on the floor.
  • Modern waiting area with a red sofa, silver chairs, potted plants, a low table, wall art, red curtains, and shelves with books and products on a concrete floor.

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