Ricky the Radiator: Classic Home Pride for Our Purveyors
Ricky the Radiator says: Forced Air Blows
🌬
Ricky the Radiator says: Forced Air Blows 🌬
Celebrate the Radiator™️
The most iconic symbol that lays the framework for the mentality of the classic home’s prowess over production-housing 🥁 🥁
Purveyors understand this truth & its bond, it comes down to one glowing casting of winter❄️warmth: the RADIATOR, celebrate the radiator!
We love these badges of bespoke construction 🦺 honor that became beacons of artistic expression for each storied vintage interior.
RFP made this in integral part of the post closing move-in-special, giving newly deeded purveyors the option of stamping their names as owner-of-record 🎬 on the cozy castings throughout their home.
Original architects 📐 specified the scale and placement of radiators with great detail, often integrated into the interiors’ archways and stoic symmetry.
The process by which our improvement-co. trades execute the radiator restoration is as follows: drill wire brushing, compressed air bath, industrial primer two coats, finish in two coats of metallic enamel.
(Following the realization that the 80-90’s-oughts the radiator fell out of favor: often covered with a myriad of handyman👨🔧special elaborate metal mesh, partial wood covers, allowing these beautiful original castings to become clutter shelves.)
American Radiator Co. was founded in 1892 a merger of Michigan Radiator-Detroit Radiator Co. & Pierce Steam Heating Company: their castings have proven to be timeless from the Victorian era all the way through post depression deco. We’ve become obsessed with the rarest shapes and scale, the favorite being curved castings, mini 2-4 fin examples and of course the long sprawlers.
See story for Ricky the Radiator examples from our purveyors: send us your favorite rare form Radiators and Ricky will drop a shirt off at your 📬
