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Installation Equation: A Patchwork of Santander in San Francisco

Granada Tile

It’s the work of Tim Balon , a San Francisco–based multi-hyphenate (he trained as an architect and has created amazing spaces that blend pattern and color in fresh, unexpected ways). The project was a gut renovation of a San Francisco Victorian that happened to include an addition of a new kitchen and dining room.

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San Francisco Cottage Transforms Into Modern Dwelling

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

A research scientist with an eye for detail approached Studio VARA to transform a 1908 cottage in San Francisco’s Noe Valley into a modern dwelling. The subtle palette of warm mixed with cool recurs in both tone and materials: wood juxtaposed with glass, metal against stone.

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Coverings 2023 Installation & Design Award winners announced

Floor Covering News

Orlando— Coverings, the preeminent event for the ceramic tile and natural stone industry in North America, announced Coverings Installation & Design (CID) Awards for 17 projects that showcase distinction in creativity, craftsmanship and outstanding use of materials. San Francisco, Calif. a design studio Boca Raton, Fla.

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NSI publishes first industry-wide EPDs

Floor Covering News

Oberlin, Ohio—The Natural Stone Institute published industry-wide ISO Type III environmental declarations, also called environmental product declarations (EPDs), for three applications of natural dimension stone: cladding, flooring/paving and countertops. Colorado Stone Quarries. Continental Cut Stone. Freshwater Stone.

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NTCA names Brookes president, 2020 Tile Person of the Year

Floor Covering News

Brookes has built a resume of achievements and activities that represent commitment and passion for the tile and stone industry. Brookes left the United Kingdom for San Francisco in 1994, where he started work for a masonry company as superintendent and, in 1997, obtained a California State License for Masonry (C29) and Tile (C54).

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Heath at Home: Sonya Yu's Decked Out Dwelling

Heath Ceramics

San Francisco photographer Sonya Yu is the lucky guardian of these two pups, as well as the owner of a gorgeous home newly finished with our tile on three different balconies in Little Diamonds in Stone White (above), Herringbone in New Chamois and Stone White and Wide Hex in Vanilla Bean and Canvas (after the jump below).

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Smith & Fong expands palmwood floor offering

Floor Covering News

San Francisco—Smith & Fong, a company specializing in sustainable interior finishes, has added six new colors to its award-winning Durapalm line of palmwood flooring. “We Lava Stone—captures the dance of earth and water, a pattern that reflects the subtle tones and textures found in weathered stone.