When conceptualizing ideas and methods to showcase our newest designs, one main recurring theme was more prominent than most– Consistent media across the board from clients to consumers. Our brand image and presence is everything to us and our customers hold continued high standards for this reason. The display had to be as good, if not better than our product.

Being from Miami, we have the repeated luxury of art and design being showcased so frequently in our backyard. What more perfect way to display our latest additions than a massive 50×30′ gallery amidst the madness of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

We chose this design for a modern, art gallery style to allow our customer’s and client’s to be “removed” from the show when they enter the show. The walls were purposely made 16-feet high to match the average height of our factory machines and layout so it’s strictly just the wheel details being exhibited. The ledges were placed at 4-feet high to put the intricacies of the wheels at eye-level for any of the visitors. The upper bar-sconces were mounted at 8-feet to allow light to travel down on both the Vossen Red walls and the top of the wheel barrel to emphasize width and design. 

The lighting for this showcase was a feat in it’s own as we wanted to match our same studio style lights but allow the booth-visitors to get a similar image on their cell-phone, flash free. Over 1000 feet of dot-less LED’s were used for lighting the wheels in this showcase, and 50 RGB tubes were utilized for the hint of red beneath the ledge as you walked through the booth. 

Covering all of the 50×30’ gallery was a custom-made 0% black-out curtain with a gloss white backing up-top. This bounced the convention center lights back up away and allowed us to control 100% of the lighting for our booth. On the Left and Right side of our meeting rooms, our Vossen V-Shields were made in high-density foam to project our videos and content in 4K for customers to view as they walked through the gallery.

The outer pillars on one end of the booth showcased our most-popular Hybrid Forged 5-lug designs like the HF-5 and all-new HF-7, while adding in the latest addition to our offering, the first floating-center cap Hybrid Forged wheel: The HF-8.

At the opposite end, the same design was mirrored to showcase our 6-lug Hybrid Forged Wheels and teased the booth visitors with an entirely new center-cap that was hand-delivered just for this event.

In the center of attention were our meeting rooms while on the outside walls 25 brand-new designs were carefully placed. Amongst them was our S21 series received 3 additions that will be available in Monoblock, 3-Piece, and Carbon applications.

Every aspect of this booth had a multi-functional purpose or intention behind it— Our brand image and presence is everything, so every image captured by our visitors already exceeds expectations. Overall, this exhibit took a massive amount of teamwork and man-hours— plenty of sleepless nights were had to ensure it’s success and it was worth every second. 

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The SEMA Show is an annual gathering of everything automotive-related in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Throughout the decade that Vossen has been in attendance we’ve watched—and taken part in—the evolution of the aftermarket industry, year after year and booth after booth. After several years the widely-employed formula has grown stale and we’ve been on a quest to reinvent the way our fans, dealers and fellow manufacturers experience our brand and new products. After hosting the Vossen Sky Lounge in 2015 and teaching Vossen’s history with the Private Gallery in 2016, it was time to flip the script again and that’s how the Vossen Engineered Art Gallery at SEMA 2017 was born.

The Mandarin Oriental in Las Vegas was a beautiful, elegant and impressive property for the Sky Lounge and after being told of the ground floor gallery space, it truly a no-brainer—a full standalone space, branded as we please, with cars on display out front and no lobby, front desk or elevators to confuse our guests upon arrival. We got to the drawing board, drafting many concepts for the exterior’s aesthetic, creating an after-hours brand presence that is unprecedented in the SEMA Show’s 50+ year history.

Inside the space, with a completely blank canvas at our ready, it was time to really philosophize the Vossen brand, the collaborations we’ve been tirelessly developing and the new Vossen Forged and Hybrid Forged models and capabilities and how to demonstrate them to our guests. Considering the gallery style of the space, I quickly became obsessed with suspending our Engineered Art with stainless steel wire. Many hours of scheming and rough engineering led to a raw-materials-based concept that levitates our wheels, built and lit with an array of industrial components.

Eight collaborations, spanning brands in the furthest reaches of the automotive industry, were one of our main topics to showcase at The Vossen Engineered Art Gallery. Lining one half of the space and detailed on red acrylic, we exhibited 2017 and 2018’s forged collaborations with ABT, Champion Motorsport, Novitec, RENNtech, ROUSH Performance, Tony Kanaan and Urban Automotive alongside our Vossen x Work Series (the collaboration that started it all).

Outside the Vossen Engineered Art Gallery at SEMA 2017 was our latest project car was on display, the Abt Widebody Audi Q7. Modified from top to bottom by Abt, this Q7 is a 1 of 10 limited edition car for the USA (and 10 units in Europe too), and the first in production. Fitted with an Audi Q7-specific 22″ forged wheel, the AVX, the widebody Q7 is the beginning of collaborative effort that he hope to see grow throughout the world of German cars.

Beside the Q7 is Champion Motorsport’s Porsche 918, fitted with the all-new RS74 forged wheel. Made specifically for 5-lug and center lock Porsche applications, the RS74 is a natural evolution in Champion’s wheel offerings and produced in Vossen’s TÜV Verified forged wheel factory.

Rounding out the trio is RWB Samurai, a widebody Porsche 993 owned by Tim Walbridge (owner of 503 Motoring in Portland, OR) and fitted with Vossen’s all-new 3-piece modular wheel line—more specifically the Vossen Forged ERA-3 and measuring 18×10 and 18×13.

Looking back on the Vossen Engineered Art Gallery at SEMA 2017 feels like just yesterday, and we truly can’t thank all of our friends, dealers and industry contemporaries for joining us at the Mandarin Oriental. We loved hosting everyone and showcasing what we’ve been so vigorously working on this year and can’t wait to show you what’s next!

COLLABORATIONS

Abt Sportsline America / AVX Forged Wheel for Audi Q7 / @abt_sportsline

Champion Motorsport / RS74 Forged Wheel for Porsche / @championmotorsport

Novitec / Forged Wheels for Lamborghini Aventador and Tesla Model X / @novitecgroup

RENNtech / Forged Wheels for Mercedes-Benz / @renntech

ROUSH Performance / RVS Forged Concept Wheel / @roushperformance

Tony Kanaan / TK20 Forged Wheel / @tkanaan

Urban Automotive / Forged Wheels for Land Rover & Range Rover / @urbanautomotive

Words & Photos: Sam Dobbins (@sdobbins_vossen)  /  Video: Anthony De La Paz (@dela_vossen)

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