There are so many small details to designing a complete space. All these details add up to create beautiful, efficient, and highly functional rooms, houses, restaurants, parks, hospitals etc. But when you really begin to design space or you complete a project you have a tendency as a designer to get fixated and stuck on all those little pieces of the puzzle and making sure they all fit as perfectly as possible. This is an overwhelming and frustrating feeling and possibly the hardest part about design for me. At what point do you say the hell with it and give in to deadlines, mediocrity, and unsatisfactory fixtures, furnishings, and details. Are they only unsatisfactory to you, because you know better? On my last restaurant project I was pounded by faucets and the faucets and sinks ended up being one of the most time consuming problems for me to deal with. You can't just pick a sink, it has to be a perfect sink, and ADA accessible, and compatible with the faucet you want, and compatible with the plumbing already there. It's intense to speck hundreds of little details like this on huge projects. And it is these challenges that keep us coming back for more. The challenge of designing beautiful spaces with functionality as an equal contender to form.
So here are some sinks and faucets that I think do it really well. Because of all the energy I put into sinks on my last project, I want to give homage to other designers and the great sinks they have put out in the world for people to use.....and to enjoy!
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| Modern, Natural, Beautiful! |
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Site Glass Coffee Communal Sink, San Francisco
Boor Bridges Architecture |
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| Hate the tile, love the yellow farm sink. |
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| Wooden Sink From Ebano |
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Southern Pacific Brewery, San Francisco
another Boor Bridges Design |
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