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February 2010

(click images to enlarge) MATERIALS RECYCLED-GLASS SLABS Green World Glass, Murrieta, Calif., offers recycled-glass terrazzo 3cm slabs in three collections encompassing 22 colors. The U.S.-manufactured slabs are available in full (60” X 120”) and...

Becker’s Blog #5: The Mock-up

Editor’s note: Joe Becker continues his progress on stone-restoration work at the St. Joseph Cathedral in Sioux Falls, S.D.

While presenting stone slabs to the owner and architect during the January 2009 trip, Agostino Pocai, owner of Italmarble Pocai Srl,, talked quite extensively with me about the marble floor – in particular about the many marble “circles” that occurred in the architect Duncan Stroik’s plans for the St. Joseph Cathedral renovation.