I read somewhere that the best thing a person can do is to keep a child’s sense of wonder, and I always have. Follow a two-year-old through a garden. Every flower, every insect, every sight and sound: they are all fascinating to a child. And, many years later, they still are to me!

Pyrolave has studios throughout the world, including our own USA, which has been importing these exceptional countertops since 1993. The countertop material itself, although available in a large range of colors, is natural, made of Volvic lava stone quarried from Auvergne’s volcanoes in France.

The Grothouse Lumber Company bears the name of him who founded it, Paul Grothouse. Paul’s father was a period furniture maker, so Paul learned both the craftsmanship and the integrity of one of those old-time woodworkers on the East Coast, elements which are now on display in his company.

Joel Berman Glass Studios is one of North America’s premiere design and manufacturing firms working in architectural glass. Installations of their work can be found in New York City’s Chrysler Building, The Gap World Headquarters in San Francisco, and Disney’s Wilderness Lodge in Orlando.