Alaskan Granite Works, Fairbanks, Alaska
By Terri Chance
FAIRBANKS, Alaska – Alaskan Granite Works might be the coldest location for a fabricator shop in North America, but it’s still doing a hot business.
Author: Administrator
StonExpo 2005: Making The Point
LAS VEGAS – Make your play early for StonExpo 2005 next month and you’ll get one of this city’s best perks: Comps.
Roger Hopkins: Beauty in the Basalt
By Emerson Schwartzkopf
CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. – Roger Hopkins may be the most-famous stone mason and stone artist in the United States … even if people don’t know his name.
Soapstone: Cleaning Up In The Market?
By K. Schipper
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After falling below the public’s radar in the years following World War II, soapstone is making a comeback, fueled in part by the rise of do-it-yourself media.
Proper Shower Construction
By Don Halvorson,
CTA, CTC, CMRS, CRMI
Forensic Tile Consultant
Showers are a common construction item in residential construction that is causing problems for homeowners and contractors alike – and it’s due to tile and shower assembly installation.
Heaven’s Gate (Private Residence), Big Sky, Mont.
By K. Schipper
BIG SKY, Mont. – When your vacation home has a name and a $10 million price tag, you aren’t exactly planning on linoleum floors and contact-paper countertops.
SMG Stone Co., Sun Valley, Calif.
By K. Schipper
SUN VALLEY, Calif. – Solomon Aryeh believes in planning. An industrial engineer by education and experience, he’s constantly fine-tuning the various components that have made SMG Stone Co. run efficiently for most of the past two decades.
Marble Concepts LLC, Philadelphia
By K. Schipper
PHILADELPHIA — John DiDonato is a problem-solver. He believes life isn’t going to hand you a day without problems, but a happy day is where you learn something and then succeed in solving them.
Walnut Creek Veterans Memorial Plaza, Walnut Creek, Calif.
By K. Schipper
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. – Say one thing for the people of this Bay Area city: When they proposed combining new landscaping at city hall with a public art requirement and the community’s desire for a memorial to local veterans, it showed optimism.
Get The Picture?
By Mark Lauzon
As our stone-fabrication company began to grow, one of the most-important and profitable things we did was to start taking photographs of our jobs. In not all that many years, I’ve shot literally thousands of images.