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Accent walls are a common design element in spaces where you are using a lot of neutral colors or hard surfaces and you want an organic or eye-catching element to draw the occupant’s attention. As more and more attention turns to biophilic design, these features wall have taken on a decidedly ‘nature-like’ appeal and can really accomplish the elusive feat of bringing the outdoors in.
Imagine spending four billion years in school. That is a lot of education, and it forms the baseline for everything around us as we know it. For billions of years, nature has been adapting and evolving to changing temperatures, sea levels, climates, canopies and weather patterns, constantly learning and adjusting to survive.
Building has evolved for a few thousand years, starting with rocks, peaking with glass-clad high rises across the globe, and now settling back into an attempted harmony with nature.
We are optimistic about the trend of bringing nature into the space through Biophilic Design, and we are eager to see more widespread adoption of Biomimicry on its heels.
Image credit: Mark Mitchell, LinkedIn Improving Building Materials Marketing Venturing out to Boulder, CO the day before a bomb cyclone to meet with a group of building materials suppliers and marketing gurus may not appear to be the most sound…
As the cult following Game of Thrones amps up to its epic conclusion, with warring factions fighting for survival and hoping to emerge the victor, we thought it coincided nicely with the rise of sintered stone in our market. We partnered with our friends over at Modern Surfaces to discuss the rise of sintered stone.
Fresh, crisp, bright and light. That's right folks: spring is upon us and we're getting sprung with this month's vignette.
Top 10 is so 2017. Here are 11 reasons why Sintered Stone is better than Quartz.
We have created a living library of installed building materials in our showroom. We welcome the architect and design community to come to explore, touch and visualize their projects with just in time materials and samples at their disposal. …
Reports are coming out about slowed construction starts and new home sales dropping. Are you paying attention? Are you protecting your business? Or are you shrugging it off and saying it is just a temporary correction?
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Healthy, biophilic, sustainable, you name it: wood is good.
Update: Quartz Companies Coalesce Calling Out Cambria And just when I thought surfacing was pretty boring, this Quartz countertop thing is blowing up! An industry that rests on its laurels and has largely been running to the bank in a…
Quartz companies looking at glass to fill their coffers. Tariffs whacked Chinese quartz surfacing manufacturers and dealers pretty hard (You know who you are). Companies are expected to go out of business, and some have to scrape the bottom of the change…
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