Newsline: Winning crews rock StonEXPO/Marmomacc Americas 2012
Recently, StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas reached out to all fabricators and installers asking them to submit profiles of their best crew and one specific project. Finalists from these entries were then posted online for industry professionals to vote on their favorites. The final two crews were awarded a travel package to attend the StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas 2012 recently held in Las Vegas, January 24 to 26 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, co-located with Surfaces.
The first place winning crew was Lester Swick, Chris Purdy and Ronald Twentier of Custom Marble & Granite in Butler, PA (www.CustomMarbleGranite.com). Their winning entry was a high-end kitchen display for a television show on home design — featuring perimeter counters of Black Galaxy 3-cm with an ogee edge profile, and an island of 2-cm African Tobacco step stacked over ogee with an integrated apron front sink — with mitered walls for a seamless look. With stick templates and hand profiling, their small custom fabrication shop, led by husband and wife team, Lester Swick and Jean Marie Schneider, specialize in old-school processes to produce high-end results.