Cabinet of Wonders is a multi-layered sculptural collage celebrating the city’s history and seniors. The art treatment spans the walls facing in the main entrance to unite the first and second floors. The reflective metal panels, installed in a tile pattern across both floors, unite as a single image, a perforated map made visible at a distance by subtle backlighting.

Artist Susan Narduli designed the Cabinet as a map of the area with Inglewood located on the first floor. The Cabinet’s openings hold thirteen images on glass and eight display boxes. Text from writings Inglewood are cut into the metal surface. A wash of light behind the metal is seen through the perforations, providing depth and a vibrant background to the Cabinet’s surface. Weaving together personal and community stories, the community’s poetic history emerges.

Narduli Studio also refined the building’s exterior canopies. Narduli’s original photograph of the canopy of a tree planted by Inglewood’s founder Daniel Freeman in the nineteenth century was pixelated then made into a large scale perforated pattern to cast dappled shade. The canopies and the Cabinet of Wonder were completed in the design build process with the artist, GKKWorks architect of record, Pinner Construction, Gwynne Pugh Urban Studio and the Inglewood Public Art program.