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on tour: Fossil Faux Studios

During our latest trip to San Francisco, Kevin and I stopped by the showroom of Fossil Faux Studios. Founder and artist Marcia Stuermer sat down to chat with us and tell us about her background and about how she developed the amazing pieces in her collection.

The Studio manufactures resin panels that carry [...]

on tour: Vetrazzo

On our last day in the Bay Area we were welcomed into the manufacturing facility of Vetrazzo, LLC by Karen Righthand, VP of Marketing, and John Sabol, VP of Manufacturing. The company is based in Richmond, CA and makes a solid surfacing material marketed as Vetrazzo that is composed of 83% recycled glass aggregate added to [...]

on tour: Black’s Farmwood

Our recent trip to the Bay Area, which started off as a simple desire to spend time with some friends, turned out to be one of our most productive visits ever. On a complete fluke, Kevin and I snagged a Saturday afternoon meeting with Michael Black, the founder and president of Black’s Farmwood. This [...]

on tour: PHX public market

When I visit a city and get a chance to explore, I look for two things – great restaurants and cool grocery stores. Attitudes toward food and how people choose to eat is very instructive in learning a little bit about how residents spend their leisure time and disposable income. When I was recently [...]

on tour: the parlor

Image courtesy of The Parlor web site

One reason I was looking forward to this year’s Grrenbuild Expo was location – Phoenix AZ. Since I graduated from architecture school I’ve had friends living in the valley and working for some of the most exciting architecture firms – Michael Johnson, Will Bruder, Eddie Jones, Wendell [...]

on tour: TerraCycle

I believe there is no better example of the potential for new sustainable age business models than TerraCycle. [...]

on tour: IceStone Durable Surfaces

quality controlLast week, while on a quick trip to New York City, Kevin and I were welcomed into the Brooklyn manufacturing facility of IceStone, a company briefly mentioned in last week’s post about recycled glass. We have specified their durable surfaces on projects for clients such as Whole Foods Markets and Wegmans, but we had never seen how IceStone makes the product. Well, we were very impressed with what we saw.

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