Concrete done right
It's gorgeous and unlike anything I've ever seen before. I have a thing for maps, the more technical and topographic the better. And that sink reminds me of the contour lines on anorienteering map like this.
It's component orienteering map and element nautical chart and all breathtaking. Here's an overhead shot of that same sink. Ahhhhh.
I followed the link on Web Urbanist back to the source for these beauties and found myself on the website, Gore Design Co. Gore Design Group is a Tempe, Arizona-based purveyor of fine concrete, according to their website. They are also artists who heed the call of a different muse and I find their philosophy to be intoxicating. From their website:
2004 ? Who we have been:
A uncooked, unconverted industrial area. A few years? Worth of savings and a group of credit cards. One guy who?S determined he wants his very own design agency. Who believes in sustainable design, who knows he desires to paintings in concrete. Who is aware of that is actually what he desires to do and who knows he has simply very little idea a way to do it ? How this is supposed to paintings, what comes subsequent, how, exactly, one runs his very own layout organization.
2008 ? Who we are:
A complete-blown green design studio. Fewer credit score cards. One man plus a small innovative team who?Ve decided this is where they need to be. We?Re a bit off-kilter. We like caffeine. We were broken with the aid of soul-draining corporate jobs. We?Ve recovered. We put on shorts and T-shirts to work. We devour a number of sandwiches. We recycle. We make lovely, functional art. We?Re believers in trade. There?S little that we don?T see within our reach. We love what we do. We recognise we are able to do extra, and we can...Man, what's now not to like? I see a lot achieved with concrete --sinks, counters, flooring and so forth. Most of it is in reality heavy-handed and ungainly. Until I wandered onto Gore Design Company's internet site, I actually have in no way visible something made from concrete that could be referred to as graceful. That's exactly what those sculptural sinks are even though. The very poetry embodied within the buttes and washes of the American Southwest has been breathed into those paperwork.
Wow. Once again, their website: Gore Design Group. Spend a while looking over their portfolio and tell them I stated good day.