Products Briefs
New Patterns by Ronald Redding
York Wallcoverings has introduced new styles by Ronald Redding Designs that add a touch of glamour to textures and materials found in nature. Metallic Cork possesses a shimmery, bark-like appearance formed by a thin layer of painted and distressed cork that randomly reveals a metallic- finished ground behind it. Dyed and pressed sheets of crystalline mica are laminated onto nonwoven paper in Terra Mica. Natural Leaves, just as its name suggests, presents a field of foliage created by a process that eliminates the pulp of magnolia leaves while preserving their veins. Other designs include Petit Sisal, Flashy Woven, and Bamboo.
Designtex + Charley Harper
The whimsical illustrations of artist Charley Harper provide an antidote to sterile health-care settings, thanks to a new high-performance wallcovering and textile collection from Designtex. Developed with Todd Oldham, steward of the Harper Archive, it includes Space for All Species, a digitally printed PVC-free covering based on the artist's 1964 tile mural for the Cincinnati Federal Building.
Cast Stone Dimensional Panels
Architectural Systems is adding visual interest to interior and exterior walls with this modern take on stone. The panels are offered in styles ranging from stacked rows and chiseled faces to wood-grain patterns. Composed of 90% recycled quarried stone and resin, they are eco-friendly, UV- and frost-resistant, and Class A fire rated.
Nature’s Net
These cement tiles from Tesselle feature an abstract three-tone motif that, when grouped, connect to create continuous organic patterns or random compositions, depending on tile orientation. Available in nine colorways—from a mustard or blue palette to a neutral cream or gray—the 8” square tiles are made to order and can also be custom colored.
PlybooSound
Pulling double duty as both a decorative and acoustical wall panel, Smith & Fong's PlybooSound is a bamboo product that dampens noise using either standard fiberglass backing (for an NRC of 0.5) or the new QuietWall chamber system, which was developed with the Utah-based acoustician Real Acoustix and is integrated into the bamboo panels (achieving an NRC of 0.7 to 0.8). The 4” wide x 8” high panels are ¾” to 1” thick, depending on acoustical specification, and are available with any of the company's designs.
BuzziBlox Penta
BuzziSpace has introduced a new shape to its BuzziBlox wall-panel series, which is a modular line that helps dampen sound. The five-sided Penta has a poplar frame, foam filling, and a fabric cover, and comes in three depths, from 1½” to 4¾”, allowing designers to create topographies.
Expanded Hand-Painted Series
Fireclay Tile has gained the expertise and artistry of recently acquired Kibak Tile and its founder Susanne Redfield. Her new designs are the foundation for the Contemporary, Mediterranean, and Moroccan hand-painted collections, which are composed of 70% recycled clay and created using a 16th-century wax-resist technique. Available in two sizes.
Flight Series Tiles
Two architecture- and construction-management-school grads turned entrepreneurs are giving new life to decommissioned military aircraft: Flight Series Tiles are made entirely from aluminum salvaged from old B-52s. The metal is smelted into blocks and then sliced into 1/5”-thick tiles in three sizes for interior use, ranging from walls and backsplashes to wainscoting. And because the process creates random imperfections, each unit is unique.
Serpentina for Pools
Armstrong's curved and undulating Serpentina metal ceiling systems have been tweaked for use in indoor pool areas: All of the components are constructed of noncorrosive stainless steel and aluminum. They are available in a range of powdercoat colors and perforation styles, and can reduce noise with acoustical fiberglass-filled lay-in bags.
Hospitality Collection by Bart Halpern
Bendheim's newest decorative glass panels get a bit of sparkle by encapsulating Bart Halpern's textiles woven with metallic threads. The fabrics—offered in champagne, gold, copper, silver, and black—are laminated with low-iron glass for use as partitions, doors, railing infill, and wall cladding, among other applications. Panels are offered in sizes of up to 60” wide by 120” high in thicknesses from 5/16” to ¾”.
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