Wooster Street Social Club, like Warhol’s Factory, is a multidisciplinary melting pot. Tattoo parlor, contemporary art exhibition space, and home to TLC’s reality television show NY Ink, the third installation of TLC’s “Ink” series, starring Ami James. Located in a historic cast iron building on a landmarked SoHo block, the WSSC draws upon the many layered history of the urban environment through the use of recycled materials and vintage furnishings. The diversity of surface treatments, whether through the use of transparency, texture or ornament recall the richness of the tattooist’s art. The entire space becomes a play between the seen and the unseen, the concealed and the exposed, and the bare and the ornamented. The skin becomes spatial in order to create differentiation between tattoo parlor, tv production and art exhibition. Walls are punctured with recycled windows, floors laid with encaustic tile carpets, and art hangs throughout. The many skins of the space are alive with visual interest.