To help set Splacer apart, the venue supply is vetted and curated by architects. “So we thought why don’t we find a way to utilize these underutilized spaces?” “It was 10 hours in school, four hours working and the rest of the night they were sleeping,” says Gertsner. At the time, they were both teaching architecture in Tel Aviv, so during an informal exercise, they asked their students to take stock of how they spent their day. Splacer is a new startup out of Tel Aviv that wants to be the “Airbnb of event spaces.” Its pitch is simple and familiar: You can rent a space-be it a West Village townhouse, a financial district loft, a storage space in Chinatown-for hours (not days), and do it with efficiency and ease and no location scout.The flipside of that? You can make money off your space, too, and for less commitment than letting a stranger sleep in your bed.Īrchitects Adi Biran and Lihi Gertsner started Splacer a few years ago after realizing that so much of the architectural space in urban areas goes unused. Even more than that, we love to be in them. In a city where quality real estate (read: an apartment bigger than a glorified walk-in closet) is hard to come by, its denizens have developed a taste for voyeuristic experience: We love to look at other people’s spaces. But that doesn’t mean you can’t pretend like you own it. You probably don’t own a townhouse in New York City’s West Village.
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