On Thursday, May 20th, I went to a product showcase produced by DuPont and their local distributor, Parksite. The location was the beautiful Bushnell Auditorium in Hartford, but that was only one of three locations over three days the showcase was held.
There were four seminars we could attend, educating us on Sustainability, fabricating with the metallic series Corian solid surface, infectious disease, and design trends. I attended the Sustainability and the Metallic fabrication, but was called back to the office and missed the last two. Pity, because the Sustainability class taught me some and clarified other things about Green building, and the metallic series, although somewhat repetitive to a fabricator, reinforced and reminded us and showed many designers attending what the material can do. I can only imagine what the other two series would have taught me.
There were many items on display, from products used in actual jobs to ideas for products both realistic and artistic made whole by New England fabricators.
Sterling Surfaces, quite probably the premier New England dream makers had several items in the showcase and did not disappoint. But perhaps more important were the works from the other fabricators who have taken up the mantle of 'Coriativity' and ran with it, proving that innovation is not only common, but is likely when creativity can spark ingenuity which enables creation. The art of the possible is very simple with solid surface, and that, as well as unique and imaginative quartz applications were highlighted at this event.
I won''t show you all the Sterling entries, because Jon's head would need grease to get through the internet, (does that joke translate well into cyber world? Is there a better variant? Lenny, clean up on aisle 5.) but I will post a few, starting with this design by Alex Vitet, who has several designs that can be seen
here.
The most interesting thing thing to me was my confidence that most fabricators on this site could probably make something like this. The beauty of a good design shows a merging of imagination and understanding of the material. Alex Vitet shows mastery in both.
tres simple, non?
Design requires imagination. That is true not only for creating the product, but in fabrication as well, and it is here that Sterling shows a creativity that few can equal. Creativity in fabrication should never take a back seat to creativity in design. One item I saw there, more than any other, showed me the true talent of Sterling Surfaces:
a closer look:
and one last shot - I love this piece. I want to have its baby.
Okay, now that we got those guys out of the way, I will show you why creativity can be contagious, in the next few posts.
As I said, Sterling had many items here, and I spoke with some of the guys who worked there. Oh yeah, that's another thing about Sterling, they prove that teamwork yields great results.