Holly

I spent a few minutes this afternoon leaning over the shoulder of our always busy CAD guy, Nathaniel (who actually does much more than just the CAD work on our designs) to take a look at some new stuff we’ve had our hands on recently. That’s another thing that took me just a few days to figure out… We seem to get our hands into EVERYTHING!

This is a rough concept sketch of a seating area in an outdoor courtyard. The zinc benches have integrated trays for growing wheatgrass in the armrests and the planters and table are built as modular components which can be stacked and arranged in a number of configurations.

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Chris

Another week, another order of zinc planters complete and ready to ship. These rounded pots are slightly more expensive than the cube-shaped planters we’ve done before, but as accent pieces for a rooftop garden or a grand entrance, they’re well worth it. We’re gearing up for a major order of 135 zinc planters which will go to none other than Sasha Fierce herself… Beyoncé!

In other news, we’ve had so much success working with Jay and Connie Lowe on their own house that we’ve managed to convince them to work with us on designing new home decór accents. Nobody has a better eye in picking out antiques to repurpose than Jay, and Connie has such a beautiful finishing touch with a paintbrush that it seemed like a shame not to promote their talents. We’ve posted plenty of photos of their amazing house here and here, but if you can stand to see more… just look at these tables we worked on: Read the rest of this entry »

Chris

Here’s a project we finished last week. Jay and Connie Lowe, probably our favorite clients ever, had been talking about remodeling their sitting room addition for some time. Originally intended to be a year-long project, their plans had to be hastened after they agreed to host a fundraiser for the Pennsylvania Academy of Music. Like most of their work, this remodel started with a couple of found antiques—in this case, an 8 foot wide gold-leafed fireplace mantle which they cut to fit their existing fireplace, a pair of massive wood corbels which were used as the base for the bar, and a large display case which Connie added mirrors to and antiqued with similar gold leafing.

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Chris

We were chosen to participate in the Puccini Group’s highly anticipated redesign of the Muse Hotel in Times Square. The new look, headed by senior designer Jane Humphrey, called for a lobby which overwhelmed and dazzled with a huge variety of materials, including assorted brass and bronze finishes throughout.

Our contribution, a massive (4 feet deep by 8 feet long) mock fireplace hood, stood as a centerpiece of the entire area, as well as serving to separate the lobby from the bar area. The hood was produced with a tromp-l’oeil painted steel frame, sheathed in six sheets of bronze with a bright finish. Hidden inside behind a blackened wire grate is a digital projector casting a looped video of flames flickering on a glass screen above a bronze log sculpture. Delivering this hood to Manhattan in the middle of a blizzard was no joke. Read the rest of this entry »

Chris

As of this week, our redesigned website is finally live! While we know there will likely be a lengthy period of adjustment as we iron out bugs and make sure that all the information on our old site is represented here, we’re feeling positive about the redesign. We’d like to hear feedback: is it easy to navigate? helpful? does it communicate our capabilities well?

The problem was, we’d grown so fast as a company that our old site was not showing what we could do. Within a little over two years, we’d grown from a prototype of a single range hood to a company doing all kinds of artistic metalwork. So, for example, while half of our business today is in countertops and other surface projects, countertops were relegated to a single difficult-to-find page on a website that didn’t even encompass all of the range hoods we were capable of building. We think that this new design shows better the breadth of work we do.
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