For more than 60 years, Spaeth Design has been creating the festive displays that populate the windows of Lord & Taylor, Macy's, and Saks Fifth Avenue between Thanksgiving and Christmas. This year, the New York City-based firm expanded their use of VectorWorks' 2D drafting and 3D modelling capabilities to design and construct Lord & Taylor's gazebo window, Macy's O Christmas Tree scenes, and Saks' snow crystals story.
"We're trying to tell a big story within a very small space, between five and seven feet deep, and ten and twelve feet wide, and it's a constant challenge to make sure our concepts translate accurately, the pieces fit precisely, and the parts move as they should to create a realistic impression," says David Spaeth, CEO of Spaeth Design. "With VectorWorks, all potential problems are solved in the design and drafting process. VectorWorks was a real lifesaver for us on these windows, because we could draw things in full scale, then use the scale command to bring them down to the window's scale to see if objects would fit in the space."
(Jim Evans)
