water jet cut project, one has to be careful what stones are combined for the project. If one stone is highly absorbent in a very heavy-traffic area, it's going to turn black in six months and everything else is going to stay white.

Of the last three commercial projects I’ve done, the owners have wanted the floors ground flat, with no lippage at all. This is something we haven't seen in this country very much. It's a process much better known in Europe.

Alkire: Harri, that's all we do. (laughter)

Aalto: Well, that's a process that's easy on a small job, but when you have 20,000 to 30,000 square feet and there's granites and marbles combined, it makes it much more difficult. Campbell: terry, do you have any projects you want to talk about?

Alkire: I was down in Italy just last week and I saw a project that is an example of what we kind of touched upon a couple times earlier in this conversation.

This project comes from a group of people who started out mainly in ceramics, as a matter of fact, they were mainly the ones responsible for producing the piece that went into the Vatican that flow had on exhibit down at ITSE in Miami this year.

These guys have now split back out again, and they've found that in cutting ceramics, there is still the artistic ceramic work taking place where they are completing one project at a time.

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It's a Florentine circular design with about a 12' radius that will feature a table that matches it. The great hall itself is about 80' long and there will be a Florentine design that runs down in squares.

I've also just finished another hotel as well. There are a lot of themes coming up. People are asking for themes, right from the design concept to the installation. So Creative Edge is involved not just in the design, but also in the purchase of the stone and the installation-which is not something I recommend lightly, having done it a half-dozen times. But it's something we've had to get into. Another project I’m involved in is a mall that features some 60,000 square feet of shapes in the mall floor, and that's become a quite popular design. People are putting more shapes into floors.

Even though, from a programming point of view, 60,000 feet sounds like a massive job, there may be only one program per tile, so only one button is pushed. But of course, if you push one button 60,000 times that becomes quite a big program in itself, even though there may be one simple cut per tile.

So we're running into that kind of high-volume situation more and more. I also did a medallion for a smaller hotel. There's a foyer area where there's a floral pattern of about 10' in diameter, and I carried the theme of that pattern throughout the entire open area of the hotel, which is about 4,000 to 5,000 square feet.

From a technical standpoint, when designing a