From Tower B to Stone Forest
In 1983, I lived in the building in the center of this photo. That's Tower B of the Litchfield Towers complex on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. I lived on the seventh floor and it was my first experience living on my own.
The Tower B changed into 22 tales tall and it become home to almost 900 freshman. There were 40 folks to a floor and all forty of us shared a unmarried rest room. As I recollect it, there were ten sinks, ten bathrooms, eight showers and eight urinals. Oh such instances were they.
A super friend I made in those early days of the autumn of 1983, became Jerry. Jerry lived down the corridor and together we discovered a element or two approximately what it intended to be out on our personal for the primary time. Through the years, Jerry and I drifted aside and I hadn't heard from him in about two decades whilst Facebook landed on my lap approximately a year-and-a-1/2 in the past. As is real for an entire lot of humans from my age group, Facebook has been a real boon to reestablishing contact with friends for manner returned when. Jerry and I located every different multiple months after I joined up and it's been a actual delight to reestablish contact. I love reading approximately his daughters and he appears to get a kick out of what I do right here.
The other day, he wrote me a note that was prompted by something I'd written about bath design. He told me that he and his wife had designed their master bath around a pair of Stone Forest vanity sinks . They'd fallen in love with those sinks and made a room to accommodate them. Now that's my kind of people! He hasn't told me which Stone Forest sink it was that they love so much but there are certainly enough to choose from.
Stone Forest makes contemporary, sculptural sinks, vanities and bathtubs from stone, bronze, bamboo, copper, iron and hardwoods. It's their stone projects that really capture my imagination. Each of these pieces is carved from a single piece of granite, marble, onyx, basalt, sandstone, travertine and what ever other stone they can get their hands on. The work the do is amazing. Here's some of what I'm talking about.
The sinks are a real fulfillment, but test out these tubs. Man!
I'd be curious to recognize how properly those bamboo sinks maintain up over the years. I don't have any first hand revel in with them. I think they are absolutely lovely. What do you watched gang? Would you operate a bamboo sink?
Jerry, you've executed sincerely nicely for yourself through the years but I have to tell you, I envy you your sinks. It's quite a distance from that lousy toilet in Tower B, however it's been a pretty cool journey.
You can see the relaxation of the Stone Forest collection on their website.