Hot off the press this week. The time has come again to claim your free calendar.
Each year at Creative Edge we showcase our most interesting and beautiful projects of the year, in our full color calendar of Waterjet Artistry.
The projects show our fabulous range of creation, and the new and exciting applications we continue to explore. This year you will see steel, granite, marble, terrazzo, vinyl, metal combinations, and lots of unique designs embodied in Creative Edge’s inspired fabrication. You’ll see memorials, homes, public art, and more. And get this: you’ll even see a detailed portrait made entirely from carpet!
Hang it on your wall for a surprise each month!
Want one? Email Tami Sawyer with your mailing address at:
tamis@cec-waterjet.com
For this project in Florida I consulted with a stone and tile showroom in tandem with the customer’s interior designer to create a custom integrated first floor plan. The process entailed inlaying our designs to flow through a formal foyer linking it to the master suite entrance .
This luxury home project is a good example of how our designs can enhance the definition of large spaces and connect to smaller spaces to lend a feeling of character and intimacy.
Working closely with Creative Edge Master Shop, the manufactuer, Harri Aalto, Chief designer for Aalto Designs, the sister company to Creative Edge, designed elegant flooring to successfully fulfill the showroom, interior designer and client’s vision.
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We were all very pleased with the final product .
As an added benefit, we custom cut the field stone to perfect the fitting of our floor accent designs, which included borders, medallion and accent embellishments. This service is complimentary with most of our projects.
On any project we are happy to provide the field stone or custom waterjet cut the owners field stone depending on the customers preference.
Terrazzo has been the recipient of incredible breakthroughs in technology. Using Epoxy as a base allows for brighter colors, a thinner base material, and the ability to add an array of various and unconventional aggregates. The one thing technology has not answered is how to keep 2 (or more), different colors separate without using an often unwanted, metal strip.
Designers are the ones having the most fun with Terrazzo. It’s not just the bright colors which stimulates their creativity. The dreaded grid pattern which is ubiquitous with tile, will not be an issue with hindering their unique design. The biggest challenge remains not creating a design that is going to be EXTREMELY time consuming and not to mention sky-high priced.
Bright Colors and reflective chips
Owners are starting to love it, too. Easy maintenance and incredibly durability are just a few of its attributes, however, they won’t pay an arm and a leg at the whim of some designer.
“So what does all of this have to do with waterjet”?
Excellent question. And an even more excellent answer……..still to come.
Waterjet fabrication is a relatively new process and has been at the heart of everything that Creative Edge Master Shop has produced since 1988. Furthermore, we have always been the innovators in this architecturally decorative process.
In the early 1990′s, when most architects and interior designers had never even heard of this process, we were producing designs such as this Mount Rushmore hotel entry, and extremely detailed designs for ultimate luxury suites in Las Vegas, shown below. We were the first to do detailed designs in resilient flooring and, the list goes on.
In 2011, we are in the beginning of a new, revolutionary waterjet process that involves of all things……..terrazzo.
“Terrazzo”? You might be thinking. “How does a poured-in-place product get waterjet cut”?
I have plenty of surprises ahead.
