It’s time for another look behind the design process! This time, we went behind the scenes with Design Director, Joseph Duffy to look at the redesign for Minnesota’s own Epicurean by Duffy & Partners.

Epicurean is a kitchen company. What started out as mostly cutting boards has grown into all things kitchen and cooking. Epicurean is located in Duluth, Minnesota and was started by two brothers and their best friend. Epicurean was the answer to their problem of figuring out what to do with all the scraps from their skate park design and installation company, TrueRide.

TrueRide, created by brothers Dave and Greg Benson and business partner Tony Ciardelli was about creating outdoor skateboard parks in Duluth and installing them across the country. As the amount of scrap was piling up as these parks were being created, a light-bulb came on, ‘let’s make cutting boards out of this stuff.’