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May Vignette – Scandi-ly Clad For Summer

Inspired by the burgeoning hues of the season, we decided to base this month's vignette on some of our favorite summery shades in the Durat Scandicolor Collection. Products from bottom to top: Torzo – Natural Kirei – Coco Tiles, Java Collection, Losari…

Trouble In Silica Valley

If you were looking for yet another reason to ditch quartz and seek out healthier surfacing options, the latest news will have you headed for the hills (the hills of Italy to grab some sintered stone, if you ask us).…

Biomimicry and Building Materials – What You Need to Know

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.  

March Vignette – Get Sprung

Products in background from top to bottom: Koskisen – Eco Transparent Plywood, Green 6025 Plyboo – Linear Line, LL5, Amber Kirei – Geometry Tiles, Oblong, 579 Products in foreground clockwise from top: Lapitec – Bianco Polare, Fossil Durat – 012 Lapitec – Velvet, Berlin Lapitec – Moca, Lux…

Partners That Make Our Bedrock

Working with Lapitec requires finding approved and certified fabricators. When we look for Lapitec-certified fabricators to partner with, we make sure to choose only the best of the best. That’s why we don’t take our partnership with ROCK’interiors for granite. Only a stone’s…

Enter The Why (Why Lapitec?, that is)

It’s hard out there in the surfacing world, folks (pun intended). With the multitude of tariffs, trade wars, and tomfoolery afoot in the industry, consumers are looking for more sophisticated, healthy, durable, and more sustainable surfacing options to meet their…

KBIS 2019 Recap: What’s New in the New Year

The Kitchen and Bath show hit the strip in Vegas alongside the International Builder Show with its unfortunate acronym. At least referring to “KBIS” is less gut-wrenching, so to speak. Here is a recap of what we saw that is of interest…

New Year, New Showroom

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.  …