FABRICATIONS
We have fostered an expanded definition of architecture to include extensive custom fabrications of furniture, casework, lighting, various fittings and hardware. These fabrications, all considered to be prototypes for further production, allow the architectural intent relating to an entire building to also enter the realm of the tactile and immediate. We explore the close touch of a hand as it might grip burnished metal or brush across a surface of textured wood. The fabrications are also an extension of the idea of crafted modernism, the notion that modernism must embody the care of making, the enduring value of craftsmanship, in order to acquire lasting value and meaning. Our projects include a number of custom fabrications and furniture pieces as a kind of investigative laboratory concerning materials, form, and production technology such as CNC milling. The furniture pieces employing a similar design vocabulary of wood and exposed steel frames. The intent is to create furniture with a simple, elegant structure that directly expresses the materials. A number of pieces employ a computer-driven router (CNC) to achieve a level of craft that would not be possible with hand labor. Cabinet panels also make use of CNC technology to create three-dimensional wood texture. Typically, CNC work is done with a direct feed from our CAD drawings to the software driving the CNC milling equipment. Further explorations of texture and surface occur in our light fixtures, with deep cuts incised into long glass cylinders to create subtle patterns of light and shade.
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