Christmas at Wilderstein

It is approaching Christmas once again at Wilderstein and in keeping with the recent snowfalls in the Northeast, Geoff created a giant snow-filled panorama that references the natural surrounding and landscapes of Wilderstein. Sitting atop the mountain of snow covered 19th century ballroom furniture, sits a small replica of the Wilderstein mansion. An evergreen forest cascades down, much like an exagerated bird's eye view of the historic site. Look carefully and you'll see a few miniature people climbing the hill and enjoying the view, or perhaps a decorated christmas tree and its miniature admirers as well as Santa with his reindeer launching off the chair!

 

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Holiday de Porthault

This year's Christmas at D. Porthault windows on Park avenue celebrate the season with a Christmas tree shaped white custom-made etagere designed by Geoff. The front surface of the unit is decorated with sculpted paper leaves, scrolls and ribbons. The floor is hand painted with a similar motif in white and gold.  Filling the shelves are the latest in Porthault's beautiful hand embroidered sheets, and custom color-coordinated terry towels and candles. Behind the unit a cascade of traditional Christmas lights add a touch of holiday sparkle and cheer.

Indian Summer

In a shimmering tumble of coral, rose, ivory, gold and beige, this season's window is showcasing D. Porthault's latest collection of embroidered and hand silk-screened sheets and towels cascading off chocolate colored manzanita branches against a hand painted striped background.

 

Silhouetiquette

Steuben. 

Glass. 

Wood.

Beauty.

(the beautiful silhouettes of this well-mannered collection of Steuben's glassware inspired the design for this window. Large cutouts in Walnut book-matched plywood re-create the profile of the product, displayed against a backdrop of rift-cut oak.)

Giorgio Armani

For Fashion's Night Out, Giorgio Armani clearly focused their attention on their Fall Collection with waterfalls of light refracting and reflecting plastic film. It was put together in a complex pattern of cascading loops creating amazing optical effects as you walk by. Each piece of this special film is micro-grooved similar to a lenticular process with an added holographic element. We die-cut the pieces and assembled them for the flagship on Madison Ave (pictured below) and many other boutiques across the country.

As below, so above

The ground floor at Tiffany's, famous for its cases full of sparkling, and glittering diamonds was taken to new heights for the Fashion's Night Out celebration, 70's style. To help their ceiling sparkle above like the diamonds below, we were given the task of rigging these 5 36-inch discoballs through opening in their original suspended plaster ceiling.

What you can't see from the photos, but you can see in this video (by the event's lighting company Frost Productions) is that we attached these discoballs to our own customized motors that slowly raised and lowered them approximately 12 feet. These motors were carefully rigged to the structure above the ceiling. This was but a small part of the evening's festivities, including special model appearances in the store and its windows, and special projections on the building's exterior.


 

Sunglass Hut

For Sunglass Hut's special promotion of a 'Return to Glamour' the flagship store on 5th Avenue had us fill their windows with stylish curly-q's and breath-taking images of actress, and now Sunglass Hut artistic advisor,  Rachel Bilson. The theme continued down the store's 'runway' to the interior.