WAITSFIELD, Vermont – The leading national woodworking industry source magazine, Custom Woodworking Business, selected Wood & Wood Inc. as first place winner of the Specialty Woodwork category in their fifteenth annual Design Portfolio Awards competition. The American Girl Place display ribbon was Wood & Wood’s winning entry and one of five top category winners selected for its originality in design and excellence in craftsmanship.

The judges were said to be awestruck by Wood & Wood’s ingenuity and execution of creating a wood display ribbon that truly simulates a delicately folded piece of fabric from a piece of oak. The art director at American Girl came up the interior signage display concept. Wood & Wood designed and fabricated the original six maple ribbons for The American Girl’s Chicago flagship store in 1998.  The winning white oak display ribbon entry was recently installed at the New York store, and sized at

82” by 19 ¼”.  The CWB magazine editorial director, Helen Kuhl, says she was impressed with the company’s abilities to invent ways to achieve what the customer wanted them to accomplish, even when it seemed impossible, often doing something that for all intents purposes had never been done before.
According to Sparky Potter, owner/president of Wood & Wood, Inc., what he
found most interesting about this project is the fact that, “Wood is so manipulative that it would allow you to have this fantasy. Not every material would allow you to manipulate it like that without falling apart.”

Wood & Wood Signs, Inc., has been designing, fabricating, installing and
maintaining signs and displays since 1972. The company is well known for their ability to fabricate in wood, metal, glass, fabric, leather, cork, sign foam, stone, cast resins or a mix of materials.

The shop is located at 98 Carroll Road, Waitsfield, Vermont. Hours of operation are Monday thru Friday,
8 am to 5:30 pm. The phone number is (802) 496-3000.