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Home My WebLink AboutSubmittal-PhotographsDAVID WALLACK'S GATE AT 5725 NORTH BAYSHORE DRIVE SUBMTTED1NTOTHE PUBLIC RECORD FOR ITEM ON pt iB iiav/oe 07 - 0r 4ra5ha.,_ Subn7 ff /- l' 1`fof ra hs record in ppnneclipn_virth item V/ _On tii-zy-rN PrisciNs A. Thompson / • • - ;•-• • Submitted into the public recorfij in connection with Item r2/ onzPi-2Y-a) Priscilla A. Thompson Citv Clerk • Submitted Into public n connection with 2 _on 0/-Zr-47,/ PiisiIIa A. Thompson eta,. mark .020•11=111. 25 • The Reporter December 12, 2003 KEYS LIFE Bam! Key Largo sculptor leaves mark DY DILL 0ITARA staff Atater If you look closely when you .first cater celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse's new Miami Beach restaurant, you'll see the handi- work of Key Largo metal scalp- - tor Kim 8randell. If an 8-by-9-font gate made of stainlesss :steel, copper tubing and solid brass, with "Emenl,s" in flowing script across the face. The gate represents a montlf's work to Brandell, who was offered the project by the restaurant's New York design- ers, The Rockwell Group, with whom he's worked designing pieces for Gloria Estefan's Miami eater, Bongo's. The process is complicated and egg, rolling out the metal frame and welding its gam together, installing various pieces of hardware, cutting and bending decorative pieces and. "a tremendous amount of sand- ing and polishing." Though a lot of work, the Key Largo moral sculptor Klm Branded designed We guts to celebrity chef Emerlt Lagesue's new Miami Beech restaurant. Erncril's project i5 hardly the only high -profile job of Bran- dell`s 30-yearsculpting career. Hes working on iNisi hmnve decorative grills rot- the new Trump Park Avenue condo- minium complex in New York City. Four years ago, he coat ed a 40-foot stainless steel globe that stands in front of the Big Apple's Trump Inlernation- • al Hotel Tower. He's made everything from gates and elaborately crafted doors to giant beds with a palm tree motif and ornately decorat- ed motorcycles_ Branded, 52, became inter- ested in metal sculpting as a teenager growing up in Miami. He worked for a firm that serviced air conditioners and had many of the tools. While lit his 220s, he moved to Georgia to follow the art show circuit, selling his pieces, but after 15 years returned to Miami and opened a live -work studio in the then not -yet -furi- ously trendy South Beach area. In the mid 1990s, SoBe became "too er'azy and too busy," so Brandon moved to Key I moo. "I always knew I was going to live here one day," he said. Bill Citara can be reached at N52-3216 rr fit• e-mail at bei- tarafyikeysrepartercrtrn Submitted Into the public rem in .connection with item l'Z I on 0 Piisctita A. Thompson City Clerk BRANUELL STUDIOS, INC, P.O. Box 3022, Key Largo. FL 33037 Ph: 305-451-5523 Fax: 305-451-5408 ww w. brandel l stud ioxs. co m brandelistud ios(a)aol.com Kim Grande, designer/sculoor. creates exclusive. one -of -a -kind, custom -designed decorative metal sculptures for bath private residences and commer- cial establishments. Thirty years of experience allows Brariden to create interior and exterior masteroieres in copper, brass. stainless steel, aluminum and painted steel Color brochures are available which show doorscasino sculptures, architectural ernbeliishrnents„ custom sculptures, railings, and more. Centmissirrrrs include: Trump Park Avenue - Manhattan, NY Emerirs Restaurant- Miami Beach. FL Ozark Aircraft Company - AK Sari Patrick's Church - Miami Beach, Fl. Gland Estefan's Bongos Cafe - Miami Sports Arena Trump International Ronal and Tower, - NY Grand Casino Inc. - $horn & Tunica, MS Tai-Mahal - Atlantic City, NJ Stouffer Grant Beach Resort - St. Thomas, V.i.. Mayfair Hotel and Shops - Coconut Grove, FL Planet Hollywood - Barcelona Miami. Reno Parlor Himawan - Tokyo Japan Tops Lounge & Oiscotheque - Quebec, Canada Plantation Bay Resort and Casino - Aruba, NA Treasure Bay Casino - Biloxi & Tunica. MS China Moon Restaurant - Atlantic City, NJ Stakis Country Court Hotel - Glasgow. Scotland Rio Casino - Las Vegas, NV Maximduon Casino Ship - Key West, FL Westin Hills Country Ciub - Ft. Lauderdale. FL Monte Cana Casino Las Vegas. Nv Sands Casino - Atlantic City,. NJ Other Morningside Gates SUBMITTED NTO THE PUBLIC RECORD FOR ITEMrzi ONoz'+-oe Submitted inb3 the public in connection with item Z I on 0 (-, y- O Priscilla A►. Thompson Ciht_Clertc_ Submitted Into the public niovg in connection item r2 I S on Ot-Zt-i-- Prisoilia A. Thompson LAW(►+erk 61 1 Ter. Submitted into the public record :n connection with item on 01-24-08 Priscilla A. Thompson City Clerk Submitted into the public record in connection with item CZ I' on 01-24-08 Priscilla A. 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