Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Custom Two-Sink Vanity: A Style Hybrid




This design is the joint work of myself and interior designer Barb Dock. I built it as part of a complete remodel of a 70s-era master bathroom. The whole house has been basically furnished in a modern style, with a slight veering recently into the craftsman idiom with the addition of some understated "mission style" furniture in the living room. This vanity was meant to go along with that move. It's a kind of a craftsman/modern blend, which I think works out well because the two movements are divergent but not antithetical to each other. It keeps to the straightforward lines of modernism with some added elaboration of details that backs off the doctrinaire severity of the modern style.

I find it is almost always interesting, and often productive, to put two different style approaches together in a synthesis: One way plus one way equals a third (new) way. This piece is an example of that process.

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