Peter Rittmann's Contact Details

Peter Rittmann's Company Details

Shield Casework

Kansas City, MO, US • 20 - 49 Employees
Furniture/Fixtures

More important than who we are and what we do is why we do it.Our story is one of discovery. Shield is the product of an exploration into healthcare associated infections that resulted in an illuminated solid surface sink that lit up to encourage hand washing. During development, we were lamenting the sawhorses that the sink on for our reviews.We started looking for a base to hold the sink but couldn't find anything that matched the care and engineering we were putting in. Frustrated by the cheap, non-customizable and slowly-crossing-an-ocean options available, we decided to build our own solid surface base.We set the sink inside our new base and once again invited healthcare experts to take a look. While they continued to like the sink, the group was far more interested in the clean, durable and stunning solid surface cabinet. Enter Shield: we began to build casework.Using focus groups, industry research and good old-fashioned trial and error, we learned how to mold flexible, clean solid surface into a better box. Testing everything, we developed patents around our connections, our construction process and our coved interior corners.That's not to say it was easy. We failed often. We spent weeks in development and untold hours refining every detail of what we make, from every piece of hardware to the sanding process.We had successes, too – winning awards and meeting up with like-minded clients looking for something different. The road to Shield showed us that failure isn't the worst outcome, and that experience is often the best teacher.We're not just building a better box anymore. Our philosophy is simple: to create beautiful products that are meticulously crafted, immaculately clean and unmatched in quality. It's more than fabrication: it's care and customization, great design and 100-percent transparency. We are makers who are born to build cool sh**.