Tag Archives: Designer

Thomas O'Brien: Kips Bay 1999

November 13, 2013

An oversized niche with thick glass shelves across from the vanity looks like a magnified medicine cabinet. Beautiful detail, gleaming white tile and practical as well. Slideshow

In 1999, Waterworks participated in the Kips Bay show house with Thomas O’Brien, which coincided with the launch of the highly original and extremely beautiful Aero fittings. Looking through O’Brien’s new book, Aero: Beginning to Now, I am reminded of this earlier work and his influence in the design community.

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Thomas O'Brien: Black and White

November 11, 2013

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In his new  book, AERO Beginning to Now, Thomas O’Brien featured two baths that have captured not only his brand of “warm modernism” but my sensibility as well. Today’s post is about a mammoth bath in a grand Beaux Arts building in New York infused with American, Radio-City like glamour. (The other was the well-documented 1999 Kips Bay Showhouse).

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Remembrance: Peter Shelton

November 5, 2012

The charming, professorial Peter Shelton.Slideshow

All of us at Waterworks were deeply saddened to learn that our friend and long time collaborator, Peter Shelton, had died. In June he traveled to France with my husband, Robert, and several other members of our team to continue the development of the second phase of .25, a fittings line we first launched in collaboration with the firm Shelton Mindel & Associates in 2005. Peter with obsessed with the smallest details of a project looking for both design and technical innovation. Together Peter and Lee Mindel were great design communicators; Lee was expressive with his romantic descriptions of form and proportion while Peter was quietly working in the background blending the clean lines and less-is-more sensibility with engineering expertise.

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Tips from the Trade: The Designer

November 3, 2012

Paul's father owned this 1959 Ferrari 250 GT PF from 1962 to 1964. He loved this car, washed and waxed it religiously and drove it in the driveway before he had a license. To this day he remembers every detail right down to the machine tooling on the ashtray cover, the curve of the sheet metal where it scooped under the headlights and the stitching of the upholstery that he cleaned with saddle soap. He thought of it as rolling sculpture and feels it influenced his taste and how he designs objects. Slideshow

Paul Egee, interior designer, great friend and collaborator, has been working with me for more than 30 years. He gracefully navigates the choppy waters from creating interiors for houses or single baths and medical offices to products such as lights, toilets and faucets.

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