A Study of Emergent Behavior
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Driftwood-Style Table
Designed & Made was hired by Buhl Investors to produce a custom table for Farwell-on-Water, a new apartment building in St. Paul. The table was designed to mimic driftwood from the Mississippi River which is the setting for the apartment building.
The table was designed and rendered, and then produced in sections and installed on site. Watch the video below for a walk-through, and check out the design, assembly and final installation below.
Cape Dutch Artisan Home
This new-build, custom home features simple forms, clean lines, and distinctive raised parapet gable walls. Inside, Designed & Made helped create woodwork throughout the entire home, including:
- La Cournue-inspired Custom Kitchen, with center island and high gloss range hood with metal accents
- Pantry
- Master Closet
- Custom Vanities
- Bar
- Laundry Room
- Mud Room Bench
This home was also featured in the Star Tribune and Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine.
3M Built to Perform Campaign
3M recently chose Designed & Made as a partner for its Built To Perform campaign. The film crew came to our shop and shot our team using their products which we use everyday.
Take a look behind the scenes and view the finished videos below.
3M Built to Perform
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Contemporary Oil Painting
At Designed & Made, we consider ourselves to be more than cabinet makers. We think of our company as a design studio with advanced manufacturing capabilities. When we are involved in a project early, we can help shape walls and room layouts to enhance the final product for our clients.
This is evident in the office of our new shop. As we walked the space and considered the office layout, we identified an opportunity within the architectural design process for a piece of art on a feature wall that would be created specifically for this size art piece.
While this may seem like a side project piece of art for our office walls to the lay person, it allows us to experiment with CNC machining and finishing techniques at the intersection of art, design, technology and manufacturing. The knowledge we gain during these types of projects provide us new design, manufacturing and finishing techniques that we can use to elevate our client’s homes, businesses and workspaces in the future. When we create cabinets and other features, we are really creating functional art.
The artwork, named Genius Loci, started as an organic hand drawing which was machined with 3D topographical features and finished using a combination of oil paint, gold leaf, silver leaf and platinum leaf. The methods used range from the ancient to the modern.
See how the process played out in the gallery below from framing the wall to making and installing the artwork.
