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shapes and vibrant iridescent colors would be fun to see in Amy's stark rectilinear home. We referenced ceramic artists whose work experiments with specialty glazes, hand-painting, sanding, throwing, hand building, abstract forms with unbelievable colors. It's a labor-intensive, technically proficient process Kellie Jo and her team represented with the tools and equipment dressed into the set (we pretended the kiln was outside a side door). Fabricating George's vases was a multi-step operation that had nothing to do with ceramics. At my desk, between meetings and emails, I pinched little sculptures out of gray polymer clay or drew Post-it sketches and placed them on concept artist Zirao "Zero" Zhang's desk. Zero created all the vase concept models and printed them full scale as a guide for sculptor J. Bryan Holloway to sculpt out of foam. Then plaster foreman Shane Buckallew applied one of two textures using an industrial hot glue gun or a hopper sprayer with a concrete/sand mix. E. GEORGE'S VASES. BLENDER MODELS BY ZIRAO ZHANG. F. GEORGE'S VASES. IN PROCESS. G. GEORGE'S VASES. COMPLETED. H. CHAIR GALLERY. PRODUCTION STILL BY ANDREW COOPER. I. TAMAGO CHAIR. PHOTO. E F G I H