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It gives me great pleasure to announce a sales tool upgrade–we have a new catalog! For years, whenever one of [...]

Well, not exactly. A few weeks ago, an idea that I thought was pretty, ahem, brilliant made it’s way into [...]

Although some people would debate the sanity part. New Ravenna is a busy place, and although it can be exhilarating, sometimes [...]

Or, Giovanni Barbieri + New Ravenna One of the finest visionaries in the surfaces world is Giovanni Barbieri. I met Giovanni at [...]

Sometimes we fabricate a concept board in unique colors and it gets sent to a showroom, never to be seen [...]

Dietrich works in our shipping department. Today we are happy to announce that, after a stint in the hospital,Dietrich is back at [...]

Or, Back in the UAE, part three Have you ever had an experience so glorious that you relive it almost [...]

Or, Have your cake and eat it too–in a virtual kitchen. Tell me if you don’t recognize yourself or your [...]

Some of you might remember my 11 year old daughter Gracie’s oft repeated pleas for her 11th birthday: a cell [...]

Or, Synchronicity Part 2; Why I looked for the UAE on a map One day my friend Tucker Robbins called [...]

And you may ask yourself, “How did I get here?” Recently I had some of the best adventures of my [...]

Or, you asked for it…more Ready-to-Ship products! There are about twenty-five blog posts I want to write, many of them [...]

Or, The Little Engine that Could. So here’s one of my favorite new New Ravenna patterns of 2010. These days I’m likely [...]

Today I continue my quest to justify the fact that I was claiming to be “working” while in Italy. Forthwith [...]

Or, How to Lactate in Style This is my favorite photo from my “working” trip to Italy. It’s a detail [...]

My job includes many perks, but probably the best one is getting to write off trips to Italy because of [...]

Or, How to get your mom to take you to Italy. First off, my handsome boyfriend Dave took this shot [...]

Or, how to make a kitchen sexy. As I’ve mentioned in previous blogs, my sister Ellen (who helped start New Ravenna) carves [...]

Or, an egg-ceptional recipe. Friends of mine recently renovated their kitchen. Richard and Dr. Frances Williams are an eccentric couple, and I think [...]

Or, Capitals, Columns, and Cuervo, Parte Tres. So after touring the Mexico City airport, which is becoming a full time [...]

Or, Jaqueline. She’s multi-dimensional. First we introduced her in stone. Sporting a wonderful texture unique to New Ravenna, Jaqueline is equally [...]

Or, Gourmet Tequila, the second best thing in Mexico after the Materials Marketing factory Once upon a time, I was [...]

Or, Capitals, Columns and Cuervo Arguably the best source for stone architectural elements in the USA, Materials Marketing produces its incredible stone [...]

Or, doe, a deer In one of my previous posts, I shared the fact that two of our employees are licensed [...]