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To create the Mediterranean, water-like look that the homeowner wanted, Wise used purples, golds and blues from the SS Rainbow Stain line of waterbased stains from The Stamp Store. He started blending colors by first applying the purple and feathering it out with a counter brush, then adding the other colors and blending the lines where the colors met to make them look like veins in granite.

Wise finished off the countertops with two coats of enPOXY sealer, sanding lightly with 500-grit wet/dry sandpaper between the two coats.

GORE DESIGN CO.
Tempe, Ariz.
www.goredesignco.com

Brandon Gore, owner of Gore Design Co., LLC out of Tempe, Ariz., has been creating a unique sink design for three years called the erosion sink. Each erosion sink is custom made, and Gore has completed dozens of them since his first creation, featured here. The formwork is very complex, taking about 40 hours to complete. "It's a very unique design, and our clients who commission these pieces want something organic, natural and modern," Gore says.

The client for whom Gore created the first erosion sink wanted a very shallow basin with an inconspicuous drain. The design Gore came up with was an extension of the styles characteristic of his work. "All of our designs incorporate organic qualities into them, so the erosion sink was a natural progression for us in the sense that water eroding concrete over time surrounds us. You can see it on old streets near a gutter where water washed away the concrete in that area," Gore explains.

The key to Gore's erosion sink is its gently sloping layers with smooth transitions that allow for water to flow freely to the drain. Gore can't share exactly how he creates the sink form, but he says each sink presents unique fabrication challenges which forming methods must be adapted to on a sink-by-sink basis.