SOM Wins at Steelcase Annual Holiday Competition
Colin Gorsuch created the winning design out of a cast piece of solid wax that paints a pictorial timeline of the Hanukkah celebration as it burns.
Staff -- Interior Design, 12/16/2009 12:00:00 AM
Skidmore, Owing and Merrill and Steelcase have gotten into the holiday spirit.
The Chicago office of the legendary architecture firm just bagged the Best Menorah prize at office furniture manufacturer's 10th annual Wreath and Menorah Design Competition and Charity Auction on December 3. Steelcase, for their part, auctioned off the competition entries to benefit the Children’s Place Association, an agency that assists children and families affected by disease and poverty.
SOM’s Colin Gorsuch created the winning design, a cast piece of solid wax that is designed to mimic the liquidity of traditional ancient consecrated oil. As the menorah burns, an 8-inch-square framework is revealed and the wax that falls onto its wooden base paints a pictorial timeline of the Hanukkah celebration.
Adrian McDermott also designed a wreath for SOM by reinterpreting the traditional Christian symbol of the circle of life and immortality as a torus, with the surface generated by rotating a circle on an axis. Its 80 individual parts, conceived as a lattice frame, are deliberately rotated off-axis to evoke the traditional handcrafted wreaths made from tree boughs.
Images courtesy of SOM.
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