Delta Faucet Co.

Some people thrive on being inventors. Benjamin Stoler is one of them. As an industrial designer at Indianapolis-based Delta Faucet Co., the Buffalo, N.Y., native says his favorite part of his job is being at the front end of the process, “when I’m in the position to literally invent and shape the course of the product. It’s the building and refining ideas from scratch that motivates me the most.”

After receiving an Industrial Design degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2017, Benjamin interned with Wisconsin-based Colony Brands before deciding to stay in the Midwest and join Delta. His days are currently spent sketching and building models in 3D modeling programs, conversing with the marketing and engineering departments regarding production and sitting in on design critiques with the industrial design team to hone concepts. He is proud to have found a job with an exciting team and to have contributed to the Larkin bath collection and Stryke kitchen collection. “There are multiple projects I’ve helped create and shape that are coming in the future,” he adds. 

“It’s the building and refining ideas from scratch that motivates me the most.”

Benjamin, who played jazz alto saxophone and “built model airplanes and cars and countless LEGO sets” as a child, didn’t get to decorate his own room. “My mom had impeccable taste and absolute authority,” he reveals. But these days, he’s hard at work renovating and decorating his own house to give it an industrial modern chic aesthetic. He is also bonding with his one-year-old mountain cur pup, Cheeks. “She ate part of my couch yesterday, but I still love the adventures we go on,” he says.

Future must-do adventures include riding a luxury train with floor-to-ceiling windows from Chicago to Glacier National Park, and then camping out and hiking in Canada’s Banff National Park. Venturing off this continent, he wants to visit Morocco and the Sahara. The latter, Benjamin explains, would allow him to “really break out of my own cultural shell and experience a different one.” But his ultimate life goal eventually circles back to inventing: “I’d like to create a product that truly helps or inspires on a human and fundamental level.”