Recently one of inform studio's most talented cabinet makers produced a series of complex curved vanities for a famous New York Hotel. This work came to inform through a relationship with a much older and extremely well respected cabinet company. We here at inform were flattered to be asked to build a project for an older company with a long history and well deserved top reputation for creating traditional classical cabinet details.
Like so many projects in New York City time was of the essence and inform produced 3 vanities two of which were curved and 3 medicine cabinets and paneling in one month.
These pieces upon delivery looked effortless but the process is far from it. Two separate jigs are made for each door style and another for the door panels themselves. Additional jigs are made for the panel mouldings which had to be made on a Shaper. a further complication is that the two curved vanities were not the same radius so each had to have it's own unique set of jigs to produce the curves which in the end look so simple and elegant.
At any one time in the studio we may have pieces as traditional and complex as these vanities being produced while at the same time building modern works which have more in common with Donald Judd's work than the classical traditions of the past. For me it is all flowing together and I do not see them as so opposed.
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