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Retail

    It's Sugar Free -  We developed the design, fabricated and installed various brightly colored candy-themed elements for Dylan’s Candy Bar in Los Angeles.
    Eye Candy
    A 10-ft. Lollipop Tree, oversized Dylan’s Candy Bar replicas and giant Gummi Bears are among the many fanciful custom-made items designed to adorn the 1,200-square-foot boutique, creating a candy lover’s fantasyland for kids and adults alike.  

    Who's the Boss? - For the renovation of the Hugo Boss Soho store, we built this Map Wall depicting a grid of Manhattan streets.
    Hugo, that’s who.
    The bas relief map is made of two sections, one nearly 40 feet long x 14 feet tall and the other roughly half the size. The entire map wall is painted a neutral gray, with the exception of the area representing the Hugo Boss store which stands out in an eye-catching red.

    Fashion Interaction - Dillon Works! developed the design, fabricated and installed this 10-foot tall by 3-foot square interactive glass column.
    Column like you see 'em
    The high tech display has motion-activated sensors to trigger movement in the nature-inspired images as shoppers pass by.

    Let them eat cupcakes! - We built these candy themed furnishings for the newly renovated café and party room, located on the upper level of Dylan’s Candy Bar, New York, NY
    Sweet art.
    The café features gigantic cupcake banquettes in pink, purple, yellow and blue, which seat private parties of eight to ten people. Smaller groups can sit at gumball-inspired tables, with coordinating chairs in marshmallow white.

    Traditional discipline - For the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade we created Reshiram and Zekrom – legendary characters featured in the new Pokémon Black & White game. These characters stand over 14 feet tall and score 680 each in base stat power points. Awesome!
    Untraditional materials
    Each half-ton float glides on a gas-powered utility vehicle hidden within the base. Also hidden are the drivers who are waving and smiling for this picture nonetheless.

    Art Deco Illuminated - We made this 6-ft. diameter chandelier for Macy*s West in San Francisco. The diffuser bowls were fabricated with vacu-formed polycarbonate and painted with a two-tone alabaster finish.
    Alabaster? I hardly know 'er.
    If you are perplexed and can't see the light, call us!

    Bronze Marché - We fabricated and installed eight large-scale re-creations of bronze panels based on the work of a Northwest sculptor. The originals are 1-foot square and represent significant Northwest industries.
    Cast from the past
    The Bon Marché commissioned Dillon Works to create two new bronzes. Twenty panels were fabricated in bronze-powdered fiberglass, creating walls that measure 10-feet wide by 30-feet tall.

    “Glass” with class - We created these faux glass fixture panels and chandeliers for Nordstrom store nationwide. We made custom molds, and then cast them using translucent, tinted plastic.
    Supporting cast
    Sure, it looks like glass. But seriously, it’s not. No one knows but you.

    Tall, Bronze and Handsome - Modeled from photos of former NFL star Eric Ogbogu, this figure was sculpted from foam, coated with sprayable metal, and hand-buffed to a lustrous bronze finish.
    Talk About BUFF(ed)!
    At nine feet tall and approximately 250 lbs., Big “E” weighs far less, and was delivered in half the time of a real cast bronze of similar stature.

    The Thrill of Victory - This is a scale replica of the historic Dewey monument standing in Union Square across from Macy*s San Francisco. The sculpture has a metallic finish over fiberglass with an internal steel armature.
    Not a trivial pursuit
    The figurine at the top of the monument, "Victory", was modeled from the likeness of a local heiress, Alma de Bretteville Spreckels. Try saying THAT without spitting.

    Wall of shoes - This translucent wall glows almost as much as the shoppers that’ve just come in from the casino floor.
    Papa needs a new pair of shoes
    Internal light fixtures create the glow; we created the cast resin wall. These 1” thick resin panels are over 11 feet tall. We have the know-how to determine the level of translucency required in the cast layer to know what’s required in the lights we design and install.

    Watch your spending - There are several markets for wristwatches, ranging from very inexpensive but accurate watches serving no other purpose than telling the correct time, to extremely expensive watches that serve as personal adornment or as examples of high achievement in miniaturization and precision mechanical engineering.
    Pssst, hey buddy; wanna buy a watch?
    Or, you can ask us to create a really huge watch that’s a functional work of art. That’s what Macy*s did.

    Jelly Belly, etc. - These two foot(ed) store displays lined up bags of business for Jelly Belly retailers.
    WE MADE 100S OF ‘EM!
    We eat more candy before 9 o’ clock than most Fortune 500 companies eat in a whole week.
    Fun aside we take business pretty seriously. Seriously!

    Watch this! - With internal illumination and a working clock motor, this watch actually keep time.
    Does anybody really know what time it is?
    A watch is a timepiece that is made to be worn on a person, as opposed to a clock which is not. The more you know...

    Dress up - Marshall Field’s commissioned us to recreate a famous Norman Rockwell painting in full 3D to hang in front of their celebrated outdoor clock in Chicago.
    Windy work
    Created using a custom mannequin dressed in real clothes then coated with fiberglass resin, the sculpture was painted in Norman Rockwell's style to match the original masterpiece.

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