Gorgeous faucets from Sonoma Forge

I referred to Susan Palmer's Design Blog the other day, and closing week they profiled a few taps fromSonoma Forge that stopped me bloodless. Sonoma Forge is a Petaluma, CA-based manufacturer of some actually stunning furnishings.

Their furniture are to be had in a whole lot of finishes; from Oil-Rubbed Bronze, to Rustic Copper, from Rustic Nickel to Hand-Forged Brass. Of their finishes, Rustic Copper is the simplest one Sonoma considers to be a residing end. Technically no longer a dwelling finish, Rustic Nickel will also evolve through the years if positioned outside, although nickel's now not nearly so reactive a steel as copper. I wrote approximately dwelling finishes in a series of posts again in February. If you want a refresher, you will find the first in that collection here.

I corresponded a bit with Erik Ambjor, Sonoma's president closing week. He gave me that facts on the character of their finishes. Another thing to a number of Sonoma's furniture is a take care of-unfastened operation they name Sans Hands, and I had Erik give an explanation for that to me too.

Sans Hands technology allows some of Sonoma's fixtures to operate without handles of any type. Rather than the hit-or-miss nature of electric eye and motion-detecting fixtures, Sonoma's Sans Hands operates invisibly. It sounds really complicated and high-tech but it's pretty simple. The faucet generates a small electro-magnetic field, hands near the field interrupt it and the faucet turns on. Pull your hands away and the field's re-established and the faucet turn off. It's pretty slick actually. All of that happens automatically and Sans Hands faucets look like they work by magic alone.

In addition to being notion via and engineered with some thing that borders on genius, they are also fantastic. Some of them take a page from the conventional cut bamboo water spouts, some interpret conventional American bureaucracy, some are smooth and undying and a few are artwork for art's sake.

Spend some time on their website, you'll be as mesmerized as I was. Thinking about something new and interesting for an upcoming renovation? Sonoma's faucets and fixtures are available through dealers located across the US and Canada. You can find a dealer who's local to you through their website. That is, if you can tear yourself away from the product photography. Hah! Notice too that a lot of these photos I'm showing today have some really cool-looking sinks along with them. Well Sonoma Forge gets involved in cast concrete sinks and counters too. Tune in tomorrow to read all about them.

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