CLP Design and Delaubrac on display at SIRHA
The 2009 Sirha show opened January 24th in Lyon, France; and for the first time we had an exhibit there. A customized Delaubrac 48″ range and a customized CLP Design production line range hood were shown as the centerpiece of Solymac’s display. We worked on a textured finish with an interference paint job for the range to offset a set of brushed nickel trim.
The Solymac brand has been known for going all-out on displays in the past, commissioning well-known French painters to create photorealistic paintings on the faces of their displays and building futuristic island stoves, and we wanted to be sure to uphold the tradition. Although we started out with a much different plan for this display, involving metal ornament overload like we prefer on our hoods, we decided in the end to go for this deceptively simple look. The rough faux plaster texture looks straightforward… until you walk by the stove and see the play of colors in it. Walking by the range and hood, especially under bright trade-show-lighting, strokes of red, green and purple appear and fade back into the textured finish. This picture doesn’t do it justice at all. Ah well…
In other news from the show, France beat out Italy to win the World Pastry Cup held at Sirha, regaining a bit of the title which they were robbed of at the last soccer World Cup.
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