HISTORY OF DAPPERVILLE
HISTORY OF DAPPERVILLE
Dapperville began not as a project, but as a thought experiment—a personal 'happy place' created in the mind of our founder, Gerald Collins, Sr. Burdened by the complexities of his work in quantum processing and AI, he retreated into an imagined world of peace and perfection. Inspired by the idyllic aesthetics of Norman Rockwell and the elegant architecture of the Victorian era, Gerald designed a utopia where every detail, every person, and every action was imbued with a sense of style and grace. He named this world 'Dapperville,' after a word his own father used to describe an elegance he loved. It was a private dream that, in time, would become a public reality.
Raised in the tumultuous post-war era, Gerald Collins, Sr. was a man who longed for the idyllic family life he saw depicted in Norman Rockwell's paintings. These images, which hung in his childhood home, created a powerful vision of peace, prosperity, and loving families—a utopian existence he never attained in his real life. He carried this dream with him, believing that a truly perfect society was not just possible, but necessary.
The word 'Dapper' came from Gerald's father, a charismatic man from the 1920s who embodied a dashing sense of style. Gerald loved the word and, in creating his ideal world, redefined it to fit his vision. For him, Dapperville was a place where everything and everyone—men, women, and even the city itself—was Dapper: Deliberate, Adaptive, Perfected, Pervasive, Emergent Reality. It was his personal philosophy, given form.