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VAULT49

NEW YORK CITY

WWW.VAULT49.COM

VAULT49 IS A BOUTIQUE DESIGN STUDIO, ARTISTIC COLLABORATION, AND

PLAYGROUND FOUNDED IN 2002 BY JONATHAN KENYON AND JOHN GLASGOW. THE

STUDIO PRODUCES WORK CHARACTERIZED BY A FOCUS ON CRAFTSMANSHIP,

MULTIMEDIA, AND AN EXPRESSIVE USE OF COLOR. IN A CREATIVE WORLD THAT IS

INCREASINGLY DIGITAL, VAULT49’S BROAD PORTFOLIO COMBINES TECHNOLOGY

WITH ALL-IMPORTANT CRAFTSMANSHIP AND NATURAL ABILITY, GIVING IT AN

AUTHENTICITY THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO REPLICATE.

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HAND-PAINTED

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SCREEN-PRINTED TABLE

When working on the table design for

the Vault49 studio, we wanted to ensure

we represented the amazing city of New

York that we are all fortunate enough to

be a part of. So we sourced the wood from

upstate, drove it back to the city, carried

it up five floors to the studio, and built the

table from scratch. We then started on the

customization process.

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SCREEN-PRINTED

TABLE

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We set about listing all the areas that

were important to the studio and the

people who work here to ensure it had a lot

of nice hidden meaning and messaging.

Once the list was organized, we quickly

designed the artwork using custom and

standard typefaces combined with a bit of

illustration. This was then output as films on

our in-house large-format printer.

We then exposed the artwork onto giant

screens at our downtown screen-print studio

and printed the design directly onto the

tabletop. Once dry, we sanded the printing

to give it a distressed look and coated the

whole table with four coats of varnish and a

layer of wax to give the final article a really

fantastic end result.