Archive Monthly Archives: June 2013

Natural Stone Selection Now on IPad

You don’t need to travel to Europe to find natural stones. With the tap of your finger you can see beautiful stones of North America. Dozens of marbles, granites and other natural stone samples. The Marble Institute of America has created an app for the I Pad. The only app for finding locally sourced stone, […]

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LOBBIES – not the Legislative kind, believe me.

The Building or Hotel Lobby is usually the very 1st impression that a visitor has at a property.  Often the impression is not even thought about or talked about – rather it is an unconscious impression and memory that remains with the visitor for ______ days, weeks, months ? And all too often – also […]

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WHEN IS GRANITE NOT GRANITE??

Usually when it’s black. As some Geologists simply state: ” there is no black Granite stone”. And, our experience is that the Black Absolutes and the other popular black Granites are subject to acid etching and staining much like the calcium carbonate based stones – marble, limestone, onyx and the like. They can lose their […]

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