A neighborhood curse cured. Candle 79 hired Ms. Wendell to go where no contractor had gone before and fix what seemed to be ailing the two-story town house.
If you noticed them at all, you would think they were part of the restaurant’s new design: two small octagons outside, each with a mirror at its center. The point? To protect the restaurant from the building across the street, whose sharp edges, according ot Judith Wendell, a feng shui consultant, “create a knife-like effect on the restaurant’s energy, cutting into it – so we’re reflecting it back.”
“We use feng shui in the Third Avenue location,” Mr. Potenza said, “and after being in business there for nine years and going strong, we think it’s an element that has added to its overall success.”
“They will then literally anoint the space,” she aid, “sealing the doors, putting it down drains and toilets and touching the center part of each burner on the stove.”
I still another ceremony,shw will use rice to “feed the negative spirits so they are sated and o longer need to occupy the space,” Ms. Wendell said. “One of the things that prevented me from coming in a first was the yin, or what I call predecessor chi.” (Chi is the Chinese word for energy).
