WaterShapes
Thumb Distributing (Saginaw, MI) has acquired the LiquidArt line of pondless fountains, including the Round…
Laticrete (Bethany, CT) has launched 257 Titanium, a lightweight, one-step, polymer-fortified, thin-set mortar that is…
EasyPro Pond Products (Grant, MI) makes bottom-drain kits for ponds that also include air diffuser.…
Grand Effects (Irvine, CA) supplies illuminated stone bases for use with its lines of fire…
Inter-Fab (Tucson, AZ) has launched a series of six pre-designed landscape slides that are easy…
It's 1889. You're at the World's Fair in Paris, what the locals call l'Exposition Universelle du 1889, and you've joined them in marking the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. The world is changing: Paris is at the center of those transitions and you want to see for yourself what's going on. You know that the fair has attracted exhibitors from around the world, but you're drawn to France because
This project began with a client's dropped jaw. I'd been called to the site by one of my usual subcontractors to help resolve a minor problem he was having. While that was being resolved, I noticed that the new steps in the remodeled pool were far more troubling. With the client and a bunch of other people standing there, I asked for a demo hammer - and saw the looks of astonishment as I smacked the top step and
When I was a student, it generally upset me when a class came nowhere close to completing its agenda. This was especially true in college, but it even reached back into high school, when I'd feel almost cheated that the last five chapters of a 25-chapter textbook fell into some crack at the end of the year, never to be seen or heard from again. I could rationalize it in
‘When it comes to business,’ observed Stephanie Rose in her October 2002 Natural Companions column in WaterShapes, ‘I know that being a soloist carries me only so far: Rather, it’s the relationships I’ve established and maintained within the business community that have taken me beyond the
