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Q+A
STEAMPUNK
DYNAMO
ModVic LLC's Bruce Rosenbaum fuses
Victorian elegance with futuristic technology
to create "never saw anything like that before"
art installations for hospitality settings.
INTERVIEW BY MAT THEW HALL
when it comes to Bruce Rosenbaum's residence. That 115-year-old
mansion in Sharon, Massachusetts, served as a laboratory in
which Rosenbaum and his wife, Melanie, created what they
describe as a "modern Victorian look" by doing such things as
combining an antique wood-burning stove with a contemporary
glass cooktop and restoring the exterior of a Victorian pipe organ
and housing a desktop computer within it.
It wasn't until they were finished assembling those amalgams
of the past and present, along with several others along the same
lines, that the couple learned what they'd done has a name: it is,
a visiting friend told them, Steampunk. (The term references a
futuristic take on the Victorian era, when steam power was
widely used.) From that in-home start, Rosenbaum has become a
high-profile evangelist in the Steampunk design movement, and
has been orchestrating its move into a growing number of hospitality settings, starting with two New England hotels: one on
Nantucket Island and the other in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Topics he tackles in the following interview include Steampunk's origins and its increasing influence in the hospitality
design community; its "green halo;" and why it's not just some
passing fad.
FOR THE UNITIATED, WHAT IS STEAMPUNK?
Steampunk started out in the 1980s as a subgenre of science
fiction, and basically posits this question: "What if, during the
Victorian period or Industrial Age, they had our modern technology?" It's mind-blowing to think how everything would have
changed if we had the ability to combine the beauty, quality and
innovation of yesterday with the knowledge, experience and technology that we have today to come up with something relevant,
meaningful and functional for the future.
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M AT T N O R R I S , M .G . N O R R I S C O N T E M P O R A R Y P H O T O G R A P H Y
IT'S SAID there's no place like home, and that's really the case
1 Bruce Rosenbaum strikes
an Atlas-like pose with the
Steampunk armillary-dubbed
"Celeste"-his firm created
in collaboration with Salmon
Studios at The Hotel Marlowe
in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Boutique Design - April 2016
Contents
From The Editor
In This Issue
The Buzz
Wall Power
Q+A: Steam Punk Dynamo
Hit Refresh
White Paper
Products: Bath + Spa
Products: Textiles
Exit Interview
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Boutique Design - April 2016 - Contents
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Boutique Design - April 2016 - From The Editor
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Boutique Design - April 2016 - In This Issue
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Boutique Design - April 2016 - The Buzz
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