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Adamson House

Updated Apr 13, 2006

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Like a sample book sprung to three-dimensional and very colorful life, the Adamson House, a historic property on the beach in Malibu, California, demonstrates the wonders that can be worked with tile, specifically tile made by the Malibu Potteries (1926–1932).
And every bit as rich as the tile work, and perfectly in keeping with the Spanish Colonial Revival style of the house, is the ironwork. Architect Stiles O. Clements of Morgan, Walls & Clements, the firm better known for the commission for William Randolph Hearst’s San Simeon, completed the house for Rhoda Rindge Adamson, daughter of the Potteries’ founder, and her husband, in 1930.
All the exterior lighting fixtures are fashioned of iron, and in designing them, Clements factored in an element that is often overlooked: how they function during the day. On the second story terrace, for instance, above a tile “warming” bench built into a wall shared with the chimney, is an oversize light of filigreed wrought iron. It is supported by a lyrical bracket set in the midst of an expanse of white stucco. Clements recognized the value of white space as a quiet pause amid the jingling of lively tile patterns and as an important participant in shadow play. By day, the spiky fixture, aided by the brilliant California sun, casts an exaggerated cactus-like shadow. Come nightfall, electrical illumination alters the silhouette and the mood.
A second example: Lining the perimeter of the terrace is a parade of crook-like bishop’s stanchions. At night, the hooks provide support for individual lanterns or a string of lights. Clements could have designed them to be only temporary fittings, to be installed for festive occasions. By making them permanent he expanded their role, transforming them into decorative elements that add rhythm and a flourish to the parapet. (via Elements of Living)

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Hokanson Luxury Carpets

Updated May 26, 2006

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It may sound like characters from the latest action-adventure film, but we’re actually talking about the staff of the Hokanson custom carpet factory in Waterloo, Canada. Founded in 1992, it is one of only two privately-owned, major factories in North America devoted solely to manufacturing custom rugs and carpets. It is owned by Texas-based Larry Hokanson and managed by Maureen Catherwood. Together, they insure the very best in quality, production time and shipping. With the factory being in North America, staff and clients are always welcome to visit to experience the custom rug industry.
Highly trained craftspeople bring their exceptional skills and knowledge to this 27,000 square foot world class facility. There is an on-site dye house and dye master with an exacting eye to provide expert color matching. State-of-the-art technology allows the marking department to take color renderings for each rug and superimpose the full scale design to the cotton backing. Hokanson’s hand tufters, or “gunners”, skillfully hand gun row after row of silk and wool yarn to create the rugs. They go through an extensive apprenticeship program and after 7 years become master tufters creating breathtaking works of art. The final step in creating a Hokanson rug involves the finishers. They meticulously hand-shear, clip and at times carve the rug for a look of perfection. Hokanson’s factory employees come from all over the world, and have helped develop cutting-edge techniques in the hand tufted industry. Hokanson has built their quality process on each individual employee taking personal interest and pride in every rug and carpet they create.
The work ethic of this team, and the dedicated sales staff and artists in their showrooms across the United States, ensures the continued excellence and lasting beauty of all Hokanson rugs and carpets. (via Elements of Living)

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Design Within Reach

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Joel Mozersky’s transformation of an empty warehouse in downtown Austin into the latest set for MTV’s <i>Real World</i> required nothing less than the ability to turn on a dime. He immediately turned to dwr.com, the website for the catalog and retail store Design Within Reach. “The project was time sensitive in the extreme,” says the local Texas designer, “and I knew that dwr.com would have the modern, really interesting pieces I needed, in stock and ready to ship.” Mozersky’s confidence was well placed: Three weeks after he presented his ideas to MTV, the fully furnished spaces were ready for the cameras to roll on the sixteenth season of the popular reality show.
“Prior to DWR, you would either have to have access to trade-only merchants or order retail and wait up to twelve weeks,” says Jordan Benjamin, a manager at Design Within Reach, which features such classic design names as Ray and Charles Eames, Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, George Nelson and Marcel Breuer. Luckily for Mozersky and other modern-furniture lovers, DWR’s business model is borrowed from Europe, says founder Rob Forbes, where “furniture design is taken more seriously and the public has greater access to well-designed products.” With DWR, that concept has come across the Atlantic and, now, straight into the heart of Texas. (via Elements of Living)

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Architectural Surfaces: Details for Artists, Architects, And Designers

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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By Judy A. Juracek. W. W. Norton & Company, $89.95
If you are a texture person, someone who loves the look, touch and feel of objects, then brace yourself for this 352-page book composed solely (introductory text excepted) of 1,400 color images of architectural surfaces around the world. The latest addition to Judy Juracek’s Surfaces series, the tome appears to encompass every material a surface can be made of, every other material that can be applied on top of it and every architectural style. Even though you can’t actually touch the materials that make up the pictured walls, facades, windows, doorways, roofs, ceilings and ornamentation, their sheer variety and number will satisfy even the most texture-crazed designer or architect. (via Elements of Living)

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Rugman.com

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Kashmar persian, Indo-Tibetan, Gabbeh tribal. Rugman.com features more than 12,000 examples of braided, fringed and weft-faced woven floor coverings representing a full range of traditional and modern styles and construction techniques. Besides its meticulous attention to detailing a product’s features, the site includes a visualization tool for consumers to better understand how a potential purchase would show against slate, marble, wood or other materials. Presenting multiple flooring options is just one advantage the seven-year-old website has over bricks-and-mortar shops. The other? As much as an 80 percent discount off full retail. (via Elements of Living)

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Moss

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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If you’re interested in finding museum-quality design objects in a retail setting, head to Moss on Greene Street in New York City. Here, you’ll find icons of twentieth-century design along with with the best of what’s current. In the 10 years since it opened, this idiosyncratic brainchild of former fashionista Murray Moss has helped define the Soho design scene. Bridging decorative arts, industrial design and art, Moss models his displays after museum exhibits, showcasing each item with the date, designer and provenance, so even if you can’t buy, you can learn. Major names in modern design, such as architect Gaetano Pesce, are always on display in revolving exhibits. (via Elements of Living)

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Customweave

Updated Apr 10, 2006

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The Australian wool pieces of Customweave are available in an array of natural dyes and sizes. Designed by Sophie Ellis and Jo Philipson, the rugs are equally visual and tactile: Hanging near the store’s entrance, for example, wood butterflies dance across a chocolate-colored alpaca field, punctuated by leather-tassle dewdrops. (via Elements of Living)

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Lyric Tile Company

Updated Apr 10, 2006

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In the Philippines, says Sarah Cox, "shells provide a real livelihood. Locals will dive for the shells, eat the animals and then use the discarded shells to make all sorts of things." Once small factory transforms them into dazzling, if delicate, mosaic accent tiles that Cox sells, through her company, Lyric Tile. The tile colors are in the natural range and come in a variety of patterns including checkerboard, herringbone and hexagonal, which further enhance the iridescence of the tiles. Lyric Tile also carries a line of semi-precious gemstone tiles. (via Elements of Living)

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Katie Love

Updated Apr 6, 2006

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Near Woodstock, a town in upstate New York that is historically known as the center of hippie culture and personal freedom of expression, tile maker Katie Love sets up shop, creating each and every single piece by hand. (via Elements of Living)

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Oceanside Glasstile

Updated Jun 5, 2006

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Perhaps the backsplashes from this Carlsbad, California, company are so fine-looking because, of the four original partners in Oceanside Glasstile, two were professors of fine arts from Cal State at Fullerton, one a master glass blower. In 1992, no one was using glass, much less recycled glass, as a commercial medium for decorative tile: The quartet built their first equipment from spare parts. Demand for the gemlike and iridescent tiles they developed was swift in arriving; soon OG was reproducing an arcane formula for cobalt mosaic tile for the restoration of the Roman Pool at Hearst Castle. Today, clients worldwide marvel at the bounty of OG’s exquisitely calibrated palette of graceful hues: Minerali, textured and iridescent metallics in earth and water colors; opalescent Haiku; tumbled matte Rituals (a proprietary soft-satin finish); mosaic Tessera (descended from the Hearst job and still the “rock star”? of the line); and Terrain, just introduced, which looks down for inspiration, so to speak, to pebbles, pond ripples, ground cover and leaf skeletons, and ridged and sheared stone. (via Elements of Living)

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Chista

Updated Apr 5, 2006

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Inspired by their travels through the Far East, Alon Langotsky and Daphna Dor founded Chista to design and manufacture goods playing off the indigenous materials of their travels--coconut shells and native woods, for example. Recently, Langotsky has developed floor tiles and countertop composites that are made of materials such as coconut, black palm, mother-of-pearl and pebbles suspended in a resin matrix to create exotic terrazzo flooring. Among Chista’s other diverse offerings are stone-carving services (sourced to artisans in southeast Asia), rough-hewn furniture and lighting with an equally primitive feel. Trade only at nine showrooms nationwide. (via Elements of Living)

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Stone Source

Updated Apr 5, 2006

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Since its founding in 1988 by partners Jeff Green and Mark Shredrofsky, Stone Source has become a major East Coast importer and distributor of high-end surfaces. The company regularly updates its inventory with new finds, and Green says that white Calacatta marble, countertop-friendly Basaltina and the volcanic green-gray Burlington are the hottest choices among the architects, designers and homeowners who frequent the New York headquarters and the Boston, Chicago, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia offices. The company also is a trusted source for engineered stone, ceramics and glass surfacing. (via Elements of Living)

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Habitus Architectural Finishes

Updated Jun 2, 2006

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Self-proclaimed design fanatic Amy Tanenbaum opened Habitus Architectural Finishes this past January, after years in the stone business. "We’re not reinventing the materials," she says of the new endeavor, "but looking for alternative ways to use them." Cork fabric traditionally used for shoes and handbags, Tanenbaum found a way to make it luxurious enough for upholstery. Other highlights: Imurazzi Mosaics, an Italian ceramic tile machine-cut into irregular trapezoidal shapes; cork mosaic penny tiles; ProntoKorq floor and wall panels available in 30 colors; and rustic Italian marble, travertine and sandstone sinks. Tanenbaum’s showroom is located in her five-story Harlem brownstone--which she is completely renovating with top-to-bottom Habitus finishes. (via Elements of Living)

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Flavor Paper

Updated Apr 5, 2006

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While in Oregon, Joe Peraino and Jon Sherman happened upon a treasure trove: a wallpaper factory, long closed, with its five-ton, handmade-wallpaper-making tables, which had produced prints in the 70s, still inside. Just days before the building was scheduled for demolition, the entrepreneurs hauled away the neglected machines to New Orleans, resurrecting the foxy-lady patterns that had been produced with them under the moniker Flavor Paper. "The hand-screened designs have been changed slightly by reinterpreting the colors and their scale," notes Peraino. Flavor Papers come in a range of hot colors (some printed on foil), and although they average $250 per roll, that may be a small price to pay to return to the age of Aquarius. (via Elements of Living)

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Twenty2

Updated Apr 5, 2006

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Kyra and Robertson Hartnett launched Twenty2 in 2002, after friends praised their unique party invitations. Hand-screened wallpapers, woven jute grasscloths and linen and cotton upholstery fabrics in Easter-egg colors followed. Gingko leaves, which provide a canopy above the streets of their Brooklyn home, figure prominently in the designs, and their architectural squiggles and shapes seem born of mid-century modern. Twenty2 has also collaborated with the larger company Designtex to create a line of contract and residential wall coverings, draperies and upholstery. (via Elements of Living)

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Classic Tile and Mosaic

Updated Apr 5, 2006

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Working as a club promoter and bar owner isn’t your typical entrée into owning a
large tile business, but somehow it worked for Irish ex-pat Vincent Cullinan. From Cullinan’s running a sideline business from home and meeting clients on the sly, Classic Tile & Mosaic has grown to have four showrooms. Most tiles are manufactured domestically by freelance tile artists commissioned by the company. The colorful French encaustic tiles are produced in the same manner as they were in the 1800s, and the elegant Belgian Bluestone tile can be bush-hammered and comes in seven other finishes. For fun designing your own tiles, see the ColorMyTile.com link on Classic’s website. (via Elements of Living)

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SensiTile

Updated Jun 2, 2006

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A Japanese poet walks through a bamboo forest, the delicate stalks shift in response to the woman’s movement. From this image architect and engineer Abhinand Lath developed SensiTile Systems, a scintillating new product that redirects and scatters light, shadow and colors according to changes in illumination. The tiles perform their magic via light-conducting matrices, acting much like fiber optics, embedded within a substrate. The tiles can be applied to almost any surface, including facades, swimming pools, and interior countertops, tabletops and walls. Three substrates--acrylic polymer, concrete or resin--are available in standard as well as custom colors. (via Elements of Living)

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Vermont Soapstone

Updated Jun 2, 2006

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Vermont Soapstone was founded in 1856 by a family in the town of Perkinsville. When the business went up for sale 139 years later, Glen Bowman grabbed it (though it meant giving up his family’s Nantucket hotel business). He has since watched his company grow to 25 employees as soapstone has evolved from a quotidian material into a sophisticated option for countertops, shower tiles and flooring. Quarried like granite and marble, soapstone is primarily dark gray in color and, because of its talc composition, has naturally white veining from its quartz content. (It’s also softer and more vulnerable to scratches, so specifiy carefully.) (via Elements of Living)

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Lumicor

Updated Apr 5, 2006

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Once a plastics provider to commercial aircraft interiors, Lumicor (formerly Schober Inc.) now makes Lumicor for the residential building and materials market. These decorative translucent panels are made of textiles, metals, papers, foliage and plastic films encapsulated in resin. The pieces can be cut or drilled without damage; surface scratches are easily removed by polishing. Lumicor can be used in a wide range of nonstructural applications, including office furniture, wall partitions, interior windows, cabinets, vanities, sink bowls, table tops, lighting, ceiling panels, shower walls and doors. Lumicor offers full fabrication services. (via Elements of Living)

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Asterisk Designs

Updated Apr 5, 2006

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Artisan Celeste Coughlin’s Asterisk Designs interior wall-finish studio is based in Brooklyn, but her heart is in Venice. She has updated traditional Venetian plaster with texture and pattern: Asterisk craftspeople etch patterns directly into dry plaster to make a linear contour drawing, or apply plaster through a hand-cut stencil to create a bas relief. Commissioned to design finishes for Peter Marino for Chanel’s New York flagship, Coughlin was then asked to re-create the same finishes for a boutique in Japan. In response, she developed a method of silk-screening the plaster onto wallpaper, which she now sells in addition to her custom plaster services. (via Elements of Living)

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Faux Tin Works

Updated Apr 5, 2006

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When Chris Plummer, founder of Faux Tin works, once asked a client if he could faux-finish his tin ceiling, the request was denied. But Plummer was hooked on the idea. He scrounged up some old pieces of pressed tin on his own and reimagined them as a canvas: Instead of the typical white tin you find cladding the ceilings of quaint junk shops and bakeries, Plummer’s ornate pressed-tin squares are hand-painted in the style of exquisite gilded plasterwork. The sought-after panels have been installed as ceilings, backsplashes, wainscoting and friezes. (via Elements of Living)

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John Canning Studios

Updated Apr 5, 2006

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The eponymous founder of John Canning Painting and Conservation Studios has been responsible for noteworthy projects such as the gilding restoration at Radio City Music Hall and the restoration of the Grand Central Terminal Sky Mural. While working on the train station’s vaulted constellations, Canning’s artists discovered notes, messages and signatures of the workers who reinstated the mural in 1944. True to his preservationist discipline, Canning left the early artisans’ messages untouched. The Canning studio is also equipped to do faux painting (e.g. marbling and wood-graining), trompe l’oeil and ornamental plasterwork for both residential and commercial spaces. (via Elements of Living)

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Fireslate

Updated Apr 5, 2006

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Fireslate--a composite of Portland cement, silica sand and mineral binder, pressed at 400 tons--was originally known as Transite and first used as fire protection panels affixed beneath Brooklyn trolley cars. The material was so successful a fire retardant that it was later used for countertops in laboratories. Although it’s still used in labs, Fireslate is also marketed for multiple purposes, such as kitchen countertops, shower stalls, wall paneling, flooring and signage, at a cheaper cost than the real thing. It can be ordered in custom sizes and three colors. (via Elements of Living)

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Amorim Flooring, North America

Updated Apr 4, 2006

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Cork floors are easy on the wallet as well as the joints and boast of excellent acoustic properties. The largest manufacturer of cork flooring in the world is the Portuguese company Amorim Revestimentos, established in 1868. Of particular note is the company’s Wicanders collection for its array of colors and patterns. The Series 3000 Wood Collection simulates typical wood flooring using cork veneered with mahogany, cherry, beech, maple or red oak for floors that are softer and warmer than their plank equivalents could ever be. (via Elements of Living)

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FritzTile

Updated Apr 4, 2006

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Terrazzo flooring dates back to the Italian Renaissance, when marble and mosaic workers created a mixture of two parts leftover marble chips with one part cement, then poured, pressed and ground the surface to a super-fine finish. Several epochs later, Fritz Industries offers a more affordable alternative to the classic. In 1962, the Mesquite, Texas, company pioneered a unique terrazzo marble tile, made flexible by adding resin to the composition. The resilient material can be installed relatively quickly, similarly to vinyl-tile installation. It is now available in 13 different lines and more than 150 marble-, mother-of-pearl-, and granite-chip variations. (via Elements of Living)

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