PRODUCTION, INSPIRATION, AND NEW CREATIONS

» 2008 June

Congratulations on SENSO Designers Group opening! Opening my mailbox on the morning of the 30th of May, and looking through the photos of SENSO’s opening night, I intensely wished I were there as well: in the stimulating Panaman heat, in an evening warm with smiles and soft light, as the SENSO Designers Group [»] launched the opening of their showroom.

(With more photos at Social Panama Photo Archive [»]) 

I know Carlos and Juan well, and I am very happy for their success. With a precursor showroom in Chile [»], Panama should prove to be as yet another canvas to paint, if one were to take the metaphor of starting afresh. 

• • • • • Speaking of drawing boards…the so-called “Life Between Shows” is starting to accumulate a very heavy workload. A common view, is that the time before, and immediately after a show is where the crunchtime is. That is true, and there can be no doubt about the caffeine-powered nights and the short tempers and the glorious feeling of success afterwards. However, the “lag times” between shows have a different sort of stress to them as well: ‘stress’ literally, because if the time bracket around shows is comparable to the hard heat of pan-frying, then these in-betweens are comparable to a slow, but steady roast. 

The drawing board is hottest of all, of course. With raw ideas as yet to be seasoned, I need to assemble myself, and to carefully select which ones to use for the next design ‘recipe’.