Sailing Grace

摘要

With residential projects, the importance of understanding the character and focus of the client is widely recognized and appreciated. Although the scales are different and the "clients" may be committees, we've discovered that the same is basically true with commercial projects as well. A case in point is this project, which we completed for Parker Hannifin, the Mayfield, Ohio-based manufacturer of engineering components and a multi-billion-dollar company whose products are found on everything from Space Shuttles to precision industrial machinery. Appropriately, the sculpture we were asked to design was to reflect a highly refined, disciplined sense of beauty. We at SWON Design were first contacted by an independent marketing consultant, Karen Skunta, who was participating in the company's effort to re-brand itself- a program that, in part, included upgrading the landscape surrounding its corporate headquarters. She had read the article we published in WatsrShapes in October 2005 ("Glass Works," page 56), liked what she'd seen and thought we might be a good fit.