After all the media overload about the iPad this weekend, some of you may be wondering how long it’ll be before Stone Business offers its own app to experience our magazine on The Device That Changes The World.
My advice: Do something while you’re waiting. Like, maybe, building a 1:1-scale replica of the Golden Gate Bridge from popsicle sticks.
There’s one point of contention I’ve dealt with since day one of Stone Business: quartz. Or, engineered stone. No, make that agglomerate. Wait, maybe it’s ….
Up until now my blogs on the St. Joseph Cathedral restoration in Sioux Falls, S.D., have been about personalities, historic events, relationships and a little shop talk. From now on, it’s about surveying, shop drawings, and installation.
For the first few months of 2010, we’ve seen some tragic events, especially with the major earthquakes in Haiti and Chile. The scale of the misery and devastation, amplified by 24-hour cable-channel coverage and HDTV screens, can be overwhelming.
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.
It’s not too early to think about a U.S. stone-industry trade show this year – because they’ll soon be all done.
Owing to the delay of the next StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas until January 2011, the list of stone events for this year is down to three … and two of them will be over before Valentine’s Day.
With any large stone project, there should be visits to the quarry and/or fabrication facilities.
Besides the many obvious reasons for reviewing stone colors, it also gets the project team together without many of the distractions that would occur at the office. Relationships between general contractor and stone contractor are further solidified to work together as a team to “sell their plan” to the owner and architect.
The picture that accompanies this entry –no, not mine, the other one – looks a bit daffy, but the subject addresses something I’ve wondered about for a long time: UV degradation.
All good things have a start somewhere or someplace, and I’d venture that they often start by accident or coincidence.
I ‘m a big Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup® guy. Maybe their first peanut butter cup was carefully designed in a laboratory, but I back the theory (for us old timers who watched television 20 years ago) that two people collided– one eating a chocolate bar and one carrying a jar of peanut butter.
LAS VEGAS – There won’t be an official press briefing to announce it, but one important piece of news came out of last week’s StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas for the industry: Hell is officially over.