Stone - the New Green

Dear Clients & Associates, test
Happy New Year! Thank you for contributing to such a successful 2007 for Yellow Mountain StoneWorks, Inc.

We began the year by upgrading our website and have had a lot of good feedback from those of you who continue to find it a useful tool in specifying our product and learning more about what you can do with stone. The new product pages provide standard test data, suggested uses of the material, most popular finishes and links to projects that feature the particular stone of interest. Remember, our ability to rend multiple finishes on the same stone adds a new dimension and texture to your design palette.

We are happy to report that our market place has expanded to include Texas, Virginia, Ohio, Colorado and most recently, the San Francisco Bay Area. Our portfolio has become more diverse in design and scope to include health care, high end residential, mixed use/commercial, landscape, and public art.

One of our most notable projects designed by Scott Murase of Murase Associates is Sliver Park on the north facade of the newly renovated Armory/Gerding Theaters in Portland. This charcoal black granite water feature collects rainwater from an underground cistern and runs it artfully along the side of the building into a bioswale. This technically challenging project provided YMSW with an opportunity to collaborate very successfully with our client from shop drawings all the way to final finessing of the feature stone at the job site.

A new addition to our website worth looking at for pure inspiration is our photo gallery. We developed this page as a purely inspirational tool. After years of working with stone, we have come across so many illustrations of how fluid this material can be. As an environmentally sustainable product, stone is in a class by itself, having an economic life measured in centuries not decades.

For 2008 - keep in mind that Stone is the New Green. Let us know if we can pay you a visit to update you on our products and services.