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Keene Signworx fabricates a blooming floral-shop sign.
By Steve Aust
Any man who’s ever made an inappropriate comment or forgotten a milestone date with his significant other can tell you that a bouquet of fresh-cut flowers offered as a gesture of atonement can help build a bridge toward reconcilliation (or, at least, no longer being subjected to sleeping on the couch).
Although flowers are merely an ephemeral treat for the senses before they wither, a building sign that identifies a florist must withstand weather, vandalism and other factors. With this in mind, Peter Poanessa, proprietor or Keene (NH) Signworx, fabricated this sign from a mix of durable materials. He and his partner, Mary McCord, carved the prismatic letters on his shop’s Precix 9100 CNC router and gilded them with 23K goldleaf before bonding them to 3mm Alcan Composities USA Inc. Dibond® composite-material backers and mounting them on a 14-ft.-long, 18-in.-deep arch support that comprises ½-in.-thick, stainless-steel rails.
They fabricated the morning glories with aluminum blooms, stainless-steel buds and copper leaves, and built the ferns from copper tubing with bronze leaves. Poanessa mounted the “greenery” to a two-piece, mild-steel frame. The secondary copy line entailed a bronze-colored Dibond and router-cut, aluminum letters.
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