Building Blocks

2009

Design Team
Brian Messana, Toby O’Rorke, Johanna Rolle, Patricia Dehesa

Collaborators
Fabricators: AFNY

Like a set of LEGO toys or a house of bricks, our Building Blocks line of plumbing fixtures explores the infinite possibilities of a single, standardized unit deployed in aggregate. The design is rooted in both aesthetic and functional imperatives. Its sleek, unadorned shape naturally dovetails with our adherence to clearly articulated modernist volumes, reflecting our approach to interior architecture as a kind of urban planning predicated on the massing of simple solids and voids. At the same time, the design is based on a standard industrial size for square metal extrusions, which allows the product to be economically viable and easily adaptable to multiple configurations with minimal alteration and processing. Simple and straightforward, the fixtures neatly encapsulate our belief in a modern interpretation of beauty and elegance that arises from assiduous reduction and refinement.

Photographs by Elizabeth Felicella

Press

2011

“Kitchen Bath Collection: Simplicity Itself.” Interior Design (October 2011).

Makavosky, Paul. “Clean and Seamless.” Metropolis (August 2011).