from the piece

“From the quiet, industrial streets of Long Island City, NY, stepping into The Oracle Club is something like falling into the rabbit hole. Between the nineteenth-century velvet horned furniture in its salon and the hand-painted harlequin floors of its library, there was something about the gathering space that transported us from reality as founders Jenna Gribbon and Julian Tepper guided us through the part library, part salon, part art studio space. Its carefully-curated aesthetic, reminiscent of old world literary salons, seems to have something to appeal to every kind of creative: hand-crafted bookshelves stocked with shelves of hardcover classics, beautifully-painted large-scale portraits hanging on the walls, and perhaps most importantly, a quiet, inspiring place to work. ”