Last week was the World of Concrete tradeshow, which is a million square feet inside and outside show that encompasses all aspects of concrete. Concrete being the most consumed material on the planet after only water, you can imagine how many people were there!
Of course, a lot of that sidewalk concrete doesn't apply to us, but the decorative concrete aspect of the show was a wonderful success! We debuted our limited edition concrete coffee table piece there and we got wonderful response from Cheng and people all over the world. We have a company that wants to distribute our products in Hawaii and we got offers for the table to be displayed in show rooms. We had interest from as far away as Hong Kong.
Jeff, our product manager, also won two Cheng awards a Merit award for Best Functional Feature a wine chiller, we were the first and only company to think to embed a wine chiller in the surface. They also liked the design of the wine chiller and how it made up a wall of the sink and including the fiber optics made it really outrageous! Then Jeff also got THE first place award for Best Decorative Finish. This countertop with all the colors is unlike anything that has been done at all in the entire decorative concrete industry. We are quickly gaining a reputation within the field for having outrageous unique projects, which is exactly what we are going for so needless to say we feel accomplished. After the awards ceremony we went to the VIP Cheng after party where we got to meet other Cheng members and winners of other awards. It was great to meet and talk with other fabricators all over the country who are also very innovative and talented. It was clear with the scope of work submitted to these awards that these companies and people are in the top echelon of the concrete world and we felt very lucky to be a part of it.
Concrete Decor magazine covered the awards and their next issue will show pictures. We are also going to be featured as artisan of the month in that issue so stay tuned.
Jeff also got approached to be one of the people at the World of Concrete next year that create projects on site. So next year we will be a concrete artisan making some outrageous project in the outside section at the World of Concrete.
He was also approached to maybe teach a class at the Concrete Countertop Institute.
Just to announce officially, we had mentioned it to some people at the show, we are distributors of Fiber Optics and LEDs. We have a variety of of illuminators as well. We will build a section of the website for this, but for now please call or email for any questions or inquiries (michelle@jmlifestyles.com or 973 668 5057). We also offer design features and can help incorporate optics and lighting into your projects.
Porfido Table
Wine Room Houzz Best of 2013, Concrete Network's 10 best!
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Ultimate Composite Design Furniture Piece
The Chrysler Building is one of the most iconic buildings in New York City. It is a classic example of Art Deco architecture and is considered by many to be one of the world's quintessential skyscrapers. The building is located at 405 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY. It was constructed between 1928 and 1930, it is 1,046 feet tall and has 77 stories. The architect was William Van Allen.
We have created an artistic interpretation of this building into a coffee table. Inspired by my family's connection with the building's history coupled with a love for art deco and its architecture. We have created a table that encompasses not only our ability for composite design incorporating concrete, our proprietary translucent concrete, optics, wood, metal and glass, but captures the semblance of the building itself. We are creating a limited edition run of 500 pieces.
Concrete Ideas is bringing this table to debut at the World of Concrete this week. It is the 'World's First' table modeling a building. There is nothing like it out there. The process was long it took about a year from design to fabrication to get all the pieces of the table perfected. We plan on launching a video about the making of this table. We haven't shown it or talked about it with many as we were waiting for this venue for its first showing. Customers who have toured our shop during the making of this who have seen pieces and have shown the design to were very receptive of the idea of having such an iconic building represented in such a unique way.
The family connection with the building is my great grandfather, Marco Napalitano was in the sheet metal union that did the metal work on the Chrysler Building. Inspired by my grandmother, great uncle and aunt's stories of his life and how he used to always talk about how he put the eagle heads up on the building itself, the eagle heads were replicated from scratch (and slightly smaller) and a around them a table was born. Loving modern design and architectural concrete, and being masters at illusion, we wanted to make a furniture piece that not only that was modern, but reminiscent of Art Deco what better way than to make an artistic interpretation of the Chrysler Building. It is also a perfect piece to show as an example of our composite applications, and mixing mediums.
We have created an artistic interpretation of this building into a coffee table. Inspired by my family's connection with the building's history coupled with a love for art deco and its architecture. We have created a table that encompasses not only our ability for composite design incorporating concrete, our proprietary translucent concrete, optics, wood, metal and glass, but captures the semblance of the building itself. We are creating a limited edition run of 500 pieces.
Concrete Ideas is bringing this table to debut at the World of Concrete this week. It is the 'World's First' table modeling a building. There is nothing like it out there. The process was long it took about a year from design to fabrication to get all the pieces of the table perfected. We plan on launching a video about the making of this table. We haven't shown it or talked about it with many as we were waiting for this venue for its first showing. Customers who have toured our shop during the making of this who have seen pieces and have shown the design to were very receptive of the idea of having such an iconic building represented in such a unique way.
The family connection with the building is my great grandfather, Marco Napalitano was in the sheet metal union that did the metal work on the Chrysler Building. Inspired by my grandmother, great uncle and aunt's stories of his life and how he used to always talk about how he put the eagle heads up on the building itself, the eagle heads were replicated from scratch (and slightly smaller) and a around them a table was born. Loving modern design and architectural concrete, and being masters at illusion, we wanted to make a furniture piece that not only that was modern, but reminiscent of Art Deco what better way than to make an artistic interpretation of the Chrysler Building. It is also a perfect piece to show as an example of our composite applications, and mixing mediums.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Modern Design
As more people have become aware of our unique artistic abilities of our studio coupled with our unmatched engineering capabilities, we are really attracting a lot of spectacular projects. I can't wait to share the end results!
Needless to say, we have shown a range of work from rustic to modern and have perfected our processes. This vanity is one of our Modern pieces we designed the bathroom and fabricated the vanity and integral sink.
Vanity, part of a complete bathroom design. Monolithic patterned surface radiating out from integral sink. Client specifications were of color and contrast with reds, blacks, and whites. Unique vanity shape accommodates lower make up area and front radius vanity top. Irregular curved shape maximizes surface area without cramping limited overall bathroom space.
Needless to say, we have shown a range of work from rustic to modern and have perfected our processes. This vanity is one of our Modern pieces we designed the bathroom and fabricated the vanity and integral sink.
Vanity, part of a complete bathroom design. Monolithic patterned surface radiating out from integral sink. Client specifications were of color and contrast with reds, blacks, and whites. Unique vanity shape accommodates lower make up area and front radius vanity top. Irregular curved shape maximizes surface area without cramping limited overall bathroom space.
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