Maurice Huertas and his partner, Emerson Tourne, founded the company in 1998 when they couldn't find a satisfying fabricator to refurbish Maurice's kitchen.

The men, having family backgrounds in glass fabrication and stone mining, chose to remodel the kitchen themselves, and later made the decision to establish a business together. A few months later, Huertas and Tourne acquired space in a 4,400-square-foot facility where they worked alone, typically producing about one to two jobs a week. All of the edge production was initially processed by hand using a Marmoelettromeccanica Master 3500 edging machine from Regent Stone Products.