Padilla Designs‘ functional artwork can be customized to fit any style. This week on our blog series, “Featured Projects”, we are stepping away from fire as a lighting method and taking a look at how the Padilla artists incorporate LED lighting into their sculptures. Whether it’s a decorative column lamp at a private estate, or an interior commercial lighting feature at … Read More
Featured Projects – Grand Entranceways
Padilla Designs welcomes you to another installment of our blog series “Featured Projects”. This week we are taking a look at a few grand entranceways that Padilla Designs has created over the years, setting the mood with functional metal sculptures that welcome and awe friends and passerbys. The entranceway to your home is a significant part of your life – … Read More
Featured Projects – Fire Features
Padilla Designs would like to welcome you to another installment of our blog series “Featured Projects“. This week we would like to share with you some of our custom fire sculptures as well as the connection Hawaii has with this beautiful element – fire. Fun Fact: In Hawaiian mythology Pele is the Goddess of fire, lightening, wind and volcanoes. She is … Read More
Featured Material – Aluminum
The Padilla Designs blog features a series called “Featured Materials”, dedicated to sharing what we love about the fascinating raw materials that come through our studio on a regular basis. We regularly work with copper, brass, bronze, stainless steel, aluminum, cor-ten steel, a variety of high-end hardwoods, and enjoy teaching our clients about the wonders of these natural elements and … Read More
Featured Project – Padilla Designs Stage Design at TEDxMaui 2013
Padilla Designs would like to welcome you to another installment of our blog “Featured Projects“. This week we would like to look back on our collaboration with TEDxMaui in 2013. TED is a globally recognized nonprofit organization dedicated to “ideas worth spreading” through annual speaker events that inspire millions. TED licenses its brand to local communities looking to bring similar … Read More
Featured Project – Hotel Wailea Design Collaboration
Welcome to this weeks installment of “Featured Projects” on the Padilla Designs weekly blog! Hotel Wailea, a luxurious resort on the south shore of Maui designed to be the perfect romantic getaway, required a more elegant and welcoming “grand entrance” to the hotel grounds. Padilla Designs answered the call, in a commercial project that required the Padilla team’s material and … Read More
In The Studio – An Artistic Take on a Native Tree
With a new addition to our blog, this is our second installment of a series dedicated to sharing “behind the scenes” peeks into our studio. “In the Studio” reveals how much we love what we do, the pride we take in our family’s craftsmanship and the fun we have with the creative process. Join us! Right now in the studio, … Read More
Featured Material – Stainless Steel
The Padilla Designs blog features a series called “Featured Materials”, dedicated to sharing what we love about the fascinating raw materials that come through our studio on a regular basis. We regularly work with copper, brass, bronze, stainless steel, aluminum, cor-ten steel, a variety of high-end hardwoods, and enjoy teaching our clients about the wonders of these natural elements and … Read More
Larry Padilla’s Sculpture of Time
This week on our blog, we wanted to take you on a trip back in time, to the beginning of Padilla Designs, before Larry Padilla and his clan transformed the Family business into what it is today. We hope you enjoy! Larry is always willing to share his story with those whose attention his sculpture “Peace of Time” grabs, with … Read More
Featured Project – Maui Bus Stop Shelter Design
This week on our “Featured Projects” blog series, we want to share our Maui Bus Stop collaboration with Maui County Department of Transportation and Duo-Guard Industries. The purpose of this project was to provide decorative shade structures to bus riders while blending them into the Island culture and environment. Enjoy! This project was brought on by the increasing number of … Read More