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Valli & Valli introduces the ZH Duemilacinque door lever designed by architect Zaha Hadid with Woody Yao. Part of the flagship Fusital collection, the door handle is characterized by an angular downward crimp with an irregular rose, capturing the dynamism of Hadid's architecture. Made of cold Nikrall alloy, the door lever is available in chrome or satin chrome finish. It recently won the Grandesign Etico International Award 2008. The Fusital hardware collection also includes series designed by Frank Gehry, Richard Meier, and Michael Graves, among others. |
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Yellow Mountain StoneWorks offers stone from seven different Chinese provinces for high-end architectural, landscape, interior design, and public art applications. In addition to newly quarried stone, this Seattle-based company sources antique reclaimed granite originally installed during the Qing and Ming Dynasties. Stone is delivered gauged and finished to project specifications, reducing onsite fabrication and installation costs. Finishes range from standard machine-polished and honed surfaces to hand-tooled specialty textures. Granite, limestone, sandstone, slate, marble, travertine, and quartzite are available. Featured is the Rusty Manchu Caviar Limestone, suitable for countertops, wall caps, stair treads, molding, veneer, and paving. |
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Tanglewood Conservatories, Inc., designs and builds custom residential and commercial conservatories that combine the romanticism of 19th-century glass architecture with state-of-the-art technology and master craftsmanship. Each conservatory is pre-built to an architect's specifications or designed at the Maryland studio, then disassembled and shipped to the site, where a team of the company's craftsmen finish the installation. Projects have included the restoration of original building designs, creation of horticultural spaces, and traditionally styled conservatories built for modern office and retail spaces. Copper domes, curved glass-and-mahogany skylights, and specialty roof lanterns are hand-built for the luxury market. Pictured is a roof lantern cupola with the company's signature copper facing. |
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Swiss bathroom specialist Laufen offers several modern bathroom fixture collections developed by noted designers, such as Ludovica and Roberto Palomba, Harmut Esslinger, Stefano Giovannoni, The IlBagnoAlessi dOt collection by Italian design firm Alessi, conceptualized by Dutch architect Wiel Arets, features asymmetrical forms adorned with the namesake round recess. Declining straight lines give the fixtures a lighter look. The collection includes bathtubs, toilets, shower enclosure, furniture, and accessories. Laufen recently entered the North American market. |
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National Gypsum offers Gold Bond®-brand SoundBreak™ Gypsum Board, a noise-reducing wallboard. It installs and finishes like traditional wallboard, and can be used as a single-layer application or in multi-layered wall assemblies to reduce sound transmission and improve privacy in schools, healthcare facilities, hotels, residential dwellings, and other applications. The wallboard features a viscoelastic polymer, offering constrained-layer damping, sandwiched between two pieces of high-density gypsum board. It has a sound transmission class (STC) rating of 55 or above in most wall assemblies. Available in sheets four feet (1.2 meters) wide and in lengths of eight, nine, ten, and twelve feet (2.4, 2.7, 3.0, and 3.7 meters). |
