Sub-Zero/ Wolf's Westye Bakke Center: better photography
As I posted last week, I was a recent guest of Sub-Zero/ Wolf at their Westye F. Bakke Center and corporate headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin.
During the Depression years of the 1930s, self-taught engineer Westye F. Bakke worked as a refrigeration consultant with Frank Lloyd Wright. He invented and developed built-in refrigerators and freezers for such Wright projects as the Johnson Wax Building and Wingspread . In 1945, Bakke founded Sub-Zero and he named his company for the fact that his freezers were the first to hold a consistent temperature below zero.
The Westye F. Bakke Center is a education and assembly facility that sits among the Sub-Zero refrigeration plant and the Wolf cooking equipment plant. As incredible because the constructing is, that it sits squarely between the two factories that made the constructing possible speaks volumes approximately Sub-Zero/ Wolf as a agency and as a group of humans.
I was disappointed with the pics I took of the Center when I was there last week, and Diane White from Sub-Zero/ Wolf's advertising branch despatched me a set of their respectable pics. Here are some highlights of the matters I saw in Madison.
Here's the constructing itself. It become designed by way of the Madison architectural corporation Zingg Design.
This is the staircase to the second floor, where the administrative offices and main dining room are.
Suspended from the second one floor ceiling are the Chihuly chandeliers that capture all and sundry's interest whilst you input the building.
As I mentioned remaining week, I have a connection (though tenuous) to the Art Nouveau front room inside the center. The guy who designed it, Bill Draper, is a genius.
I think his Brasserie des Artistes is as perfect an homage to the Art Nouveau movement as I've ever seen.
Down the corridor from it are adjoining Mick de Giulio kitchens that no matter their size, do not feel something like the business spaces they're.
The entire Westye F. Bakke Center and my experiences there were the sorts of things kitchen designers daydream about. Designer people out there, do not pass up an opportunity to take a pilgrimage to Madison.
And for all of you non-designer people, Sub-Zero/ Wolf has extended their current instant rebate program through March, 2011. At stake is an instant rebate worth up to $2500. You can find more information on their website.
Many thank you once more to my Sub-Zero/ Wolf rep, Cathy Bame, for making all of this viable. Many, many thank you visit the excellent human beings at Sub-Zero/ Wolf in Madison for being such enthusiastic hosts. Let's sell a few fridges and ranges!
You can see Sub-Zero/ Wolf's entire collection of food preservation and preparation appliances on their website .