You are currently browsing the daily archive for March 21st, 2008.
This isn’t something new, but at Edelman Leather they have spent over 20 years working through the challenges to make these leather tiles what they are today – practical, workable, and extremely beautiful. The wall and floor tiles are cured using an ancient vegetable tanning process, originally used in making leather for industrial uses as well as for fine saddlery. Vegetable tanning updated, adds extra life and resilience to the hide, creating an ever-breathing, changing leather. It enhances the natural beauty of the hide. The careful selection of the appropriate hides for flooring and walls is crucial. Only the center portion of the hide, where the uniformity of thickness and the strongest fibers are, can be used. Cutting the hide into tiles needs specially built steel dies and heavy duty cutting equipment in order to maintain equal pressure. The results are amazing!
Leather floor and wall tiles should be installed on a clean, unfinished surface, preferably plywood. Of course, all open sub floor seams should be properly grouted. Never install on sheet rock or drywall. To begin, always lay the pattern starting in the middle of the room. The tile should be laid to a line as a ceramic tile. This way the spaces between the tiles will vary just a bit. They will fit together like a puzzle. Leather tiles themselves will vary slightly due to their being a natural product and they also need to be opened for a minimum of 48 hours before installation to acclimate and breathe.
Leather for floors and walls is beautiful; it wears and wears, gradually developing a rich, natural patina that is the true mark of quality leather. Only leather dyed through and through gives this result. Leather floors and walls soften sound, warm the atmosphere, feel great underfoot, and get better with age, becoming a good friend. Leather floors have nothing to do with fashion and everything to do with style. A leather floor is, indeed, the Ultimate Leather Accessory!
It is recommended that you choose an installer with floor tile experience even better, an expert in the eyes of the Edelmans, who are available to give you advice about installing your leather tiles!
THESE ARE NOT PERFECT VINYL TILES
THANK GOODNESS!
Floor standing luminaire for indirect halogen lighting and/or, diffused color or white fluorescent lighting. The floor lamp in the off position appears as a mirror and when the fluorescent lighting is activated, theselected red, green, blue, or white light illuminates throughthe front of the mirror, extruded aluminum structure housing front and back glass mirrors with polished aluminum side panels, weighted steel base with polished chromed steel cover , front glass mirror incorporates touch sensitive control pane, and is hinged for easy relamping of 6 (2 red, 2 green, 2 blue) fluorescent tubes, touch sensitive control panel enables: dimming for the indirect halogen lighting,on/off for each independent color of fluorescent lighting with creation of white light by activation of all color lighting, incorporated infrared motion sensor, when activated, will turn the light on to its last setting when the luminaire detects movement, “scrolling” feature provides continuous looping of green, blue, and red fluorescent lighting. more details
The Showtime Chair is a beautifully sculptured award winning designed chair, that sits as smoothly as it looks. made from inlaid rattan strips. A magnificent work of art.(more info)
Exceptionally dramatic, this spectacular contemporary residence was meticulously renovated by the esteemed architect Max Levy and noted designer David Caldwalder in 2002. The stunning design in the Armstrong Parkway estate area is timeless in its generous proportions, its excellent use of natural materials and its careful attention to every detail. Stylish in every way, the home features numerous walls of varying heights and light sources that make it an art collectors dream come true.(details)
