Sandwiches

UNENDING BENDING

We've started making a batch of steel Roadrunners and Grasshoppers with nothing but manpower to bend the profiles. Make that Manpower with a capital M, mofo: insert the material, clamp it in place, grab the handle and pull. Repeat a few thousand times and you've got yourself a ginormous right arm and a proper stack of chair parts. Click through to watch on Vimeo.

TWO-TONE STEEL-TOP TURTLE SNEAK PEEK

At last, a sneak preview of our new-look Turtle diner. He's all steel, with a fresh two-tone color scheme, (shown here in our standard cream and blue) and looking very dapper, thank you very much. He's stretcher-less on his ends with corner legs instead of the looped legs of our standard wood-topped table. More will come soon, we promise. And yes, he'll soon be added to our production catalog, along with that Turtle desk, the walnut Armadillo, a long-awaited production bed, and all the other fresh stuff we've got in reserve. All in good time, friends. All in good time.

CONTAINER MATERIAL

We've got a couple shipping containers on the property to store our material and inventory and occasionally Clovis Tillman heads out there to take a photo or two. This bit here he snapped this week—a picture of a stack of walnut for a project we're working on. The corrugation makes for a pretty and graphic backdrop, here showing a nice pastel green pallette (at least on this monitor). Fresh, brother—we're feeling it too.

SIGNS THAT OUR NEIGHBORHOODS DON'T SUCK: THIS WACKED-OUT BENCH REHAB OUT FRONT OF THE 3RD AVENUE MARKET

What was once a seatless but otherwise serviceable bench has, in the hands of a master, become a one-of-a-kind work of hack-repair art. The melamine-coated particleboard was just too lovely not to use, but sadly it sagged over the span. Lucky there were some two-by-fours handy for a third leg and lucky, too, there was some spare electrical wire just laying around near a dude who knew just what to do with it. Turns out one man's trash is another man's bench rehabilitation kit. Outstanding work.

ANGEL AND THE ARMADILLO

So we finally got a stretch of nice weather and finished off our project for this year's Design After Dark, the fundraising auction for the Architecture, Design and Graphics department of the DAM. The background is covered in other posts on this site, as is the fresh table itself (the first walnut version of our Armadillo coffee table); this post just showcases a little stop-motion video of the pick-up. We chained the table to a strange bench out front of the 3rd Avenue Market, in our neighborhood, and got a neighborhood kid involved in the show. His name, he said, is Angel and he seems a natural. Click through to watch on Vimeo.

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THESE PICTURES REMIND US OF THE PICTURES BELOW THESE PICTURES (NOT ANYMORE SINCE THE NEXT POST IS HISTORY)

Alright, so maybe this is a little stupid, but we found these photos in the archives and, you gotta admit, they're basically the same photos as the ones below. Like we said, a little stupid but still fun—at least for us. (Editor's note: This caption makes no sense now that someone deleted the post below this post. Now who could that have been?)

DOUBLEBUTTER CANOPY ERECTION

Yes, a time-lapse of our erection, set to music, for your viewing pleasure. Oh, reading that now we see how you could get the wrong idea. We erected a new canopy over the pad outside our shop, and while it was dirty, it wasn't ever dirty in that other sense. The track is just old enough to be neither fresh nor vintage, just so last year. Still, it seems to fit with the pace and spirit of the time-lapse and it synchs with events in our lives at the moment (and it was exactly the right length)—so we're sticking with it for now, at least until somebody complains compellingly enough to inspire another edit. Click through to watch on Vimeo.