The Cable Center, Denver
By K. Schipper
DENVER – In real estate, location is everything – and, with The Cable Center, its location on the campus of the University of Denver led to a strong use of natural stone in the final design.
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Why Not Yours?
By Emerson Schwartzkopf
Let’s be honest at the start – this is a blatant plug for our annual Best of Home Awards. When it comes to the benefits, though, you’ll get more out of this contest than me.
Montana Tile and Stone, Bozeman, Mont.
By K. Schipper
BOZEMAN, Mont. – Price Wills honed his design skills in one of the toniest zip codes in the country: Aspen, Colo – but some of life’s realities sent him elsewhere.
Patterns for Success, Part I
By Kevin M. Padden
When it comes to the life of any project, there’s a set pattern for success that, if followed, is a recipe for a job that runs smoothly from start to finish.
Fabrication: Quartz vs. Quarried
By K. Schipper
With more than 90 percent natural materials in each piece of quartz surface, it’s a mix that’s close to quarried materials – but, with man-made resins making up the rest of the formula and providing the color options customers love, is quartz close enough to natural stone to actually fabricate and install the same?
ITSS 2004 New York
NEW YORK – This year, the International Tile And Stone Show (ITSS) is going almost coast-to-coast … with its first stop in Manhattan next month.
Tile Underlayment: Be Prepared
By Mark Longfellow
Director, Custom Building Products
For tile installation professionals, completing a successful project starts with proper surface preparation.
Remembering the Stone
WASHINGTON – It took nearly a half-century for those who fought in World War II to be remembered on the National Mall.
Turkey: A New Leader?
By Emerson Schwartzkopf
As the stone business booms in the United States, there’s one country that’s becoming a market leader in bringing its products to the American market: Turkey.
On The Road Again
By Emerson Schwartzkopf
For more than a decade, I’ve spent at least one week of my life every year in Orlando, Fla., and never taken an amusement-park ride. If “That’s Incredible!” still aired, I’d earn a spot before the second commercial. Instead, I get to be part of a newspaper article.