Warm Days

A look at our block in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on an uncharacteristically warm day in February.

Things Around the Shop

Just some silly things around the shop! There's always something new to be found.

"snort me"

brand new router!

"daedalus museum of curiosity presents:

batteries, chargers through the ages

(for one day only)"

styrofoam brick. pretend it's heavy and throw it at the new guy!

"extreme irony"

honoring past employees by retiring numbers

special apple box paited to welcome back an old colleague moving back from canada

"programmer: your mom"

Moon Samples

using birch plywood

mdf one way

mdf another way!

The Gap

A sample we did for the Gap. If we had done the job it was somewhere in the hundreds that we would have built, for stores around the country. The logo was done with the router.

Mathieu Mirano

Fashion week in New York (February 2011) we did a set for designer Mathieu Mirano. These platforms were laminated in black, gold or silver formica, and trimmed with a palm router. A few of us went in on a Sunday to install, only to be asked to step aside while union workers assembled the set. Oh well. I still got my overtime :)

noted: we did not build the snake/dragon heads

Red Cabinet

Bought this cheap on craigslist, painted it, and put new knobs on!

Form and Function: Desk Edition

My first personal project: lil bookshelf. My desk (which is actually a door) was suspended between my dresser and a sawhorse, which A) was unsightly, and B) took up more space that it should, and C) was wobbly. This keeps my desk level and solid, accommodates the baseboard heater, and provides some much need desk storage!

The Space

The space is divided into three sections: carpentry is by the main entrance, to the right. In the center there's a deck where we tech sets. and to the left is the steel deck, where all things metal happen.

carpentry

center deck, looking towards metal area

steel deck, where the welding happens

Hurt Village

My first week I jumped into a half-finished set for the play Hurt Village (more images at the link). At first I thought we were conserving material by using recycled scraps from previous jobs. The dry wall was cracked and only partially covering the slatted interior of the walls. It was a few days in that I found out the the play shows the before and after affects of low income living on a household. My first "long-term" project (maybe 2 or 3 days) was to build steel-cabled cages for the pillars in the theater to achieve an industrial construction-site feel. We had to cut the rebar to size (the first machine I learned to use was the steel saw) and then do some problem solving concerning the bending of the bars. The creative directer didn't want them to be cut and welded, but to be bent around the square pillars. This was difficult because the rebar is brittle and wanted to break when bent to a 45 degree angle. Once bent we created a jig on the steel-deck to lay the bars into to be welded to create the cage look. Didn't get a picture before the cages were slotted together for transport though!

the window pane was cut on a saw to achieve the perfect broken window look, which is kind of funny

Dana Does Daedalus

Welcome to Dana Does Daedalus! Here you can keep up to date on all the goings ons at Daedalus Design and Production Inc. we design and construct custom furniture and sets for theaters, events and stores.

While many of our duties stray into a number of different departments, it's easiest to divide the 19 members of the daedalus family into these four categories:

carpentry with 8 < including me!!
metal with 3
2 full time scenic artists (we often hire freelancers)
5 people in the office doing design, drafting and arrangements.

The company is owned by Pierre who manages the floor, and James who works in the office.