January/February 2024 Focus: At Home

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34 Case Study Rock On

Omar Gandhi Architects fortifies a coastal retreat amid craggy shores and extreme weather.

Architect: Omar Gandhi Architects

Landscape design: Omar Gandhi Architects

Structural engineer: Blackwell Structural

Engineers

Civil engineer: Stantec and Harbourside

Geotechnical Consultants

General contractor: MRB Contracting

Windows: Heroal

Doors: Heroal

Roofing: Soprema

Waterproofing: Huber Engineered Woods

Insulation: Rockwool

Appliances: Jennair

Fireplace: Stuv

Lighting: Mooi, Muuto, Flos, Aaline

Fixtures: Hansgrohe, Delta

Furniture: American Leather, Gus Modern, Umage, Huppe

Landscape furniture: Loll Designs

The rocky shoreline of Hubbards, Nova Scotia, is at the mercy of the Atlantic Ocean and the merciless winds it blows. It’s here, perched atop this uneven terrain, that the boxy modern retreat Rockbound met its first quagmire: how to capitalize on the site without falling victim to it.

No stranger to the area nor maritime vernacular, Toronto- and Halifax-based Omar Gandhi Architects navigated the landscape through careful materials and form selection. “One thing that we always try to maintain in our practice,” said the firm’s eponymous founder and principal, “is using ordinary, rugged materials that, through intense craftsmanship, become beautiful.” For the exterior, the architects opted for weather-resilient cork and steel, as they are easy to maintain and even improve aesthetically over time rather than appearing battered and worn down. Eastern white cedar, which makes up the bulk of the volume of the box, connects the residence to its surroundings. The material is readily available and commonly found in the area’s vernacular fishing shacks.

The 4,100-square-foot building presents itself as a cluster of simple forms nestled on top of each other, much like the rocks that lie below it. On the ocean-facing side, recessed windows carve into the facade, and upper and lower porches help protect against the punishing winds while preventing leaks and providing additional insulation.

During construction, a seam in the bedrock was discovered running right along the middle

of the building, almost overhauling the plans. But rather than redesign the home, which the clients were already attached to, the architects redesigned the foundation to accommodate the tightened site. A series of micropiles, which are essentially stainless-steel augers, were installed along the rocks to bolster structural support. Additional strength comes from a steel frame within the home’s wooden cladding that also provides resistance against the locale’s extreme winds.

While the exterior focuses on protection from the elements, the interior is all about framing it. “We tried to produce an interior in the tones of the wood, the whites, and the natural stones,” said Gandhi, but that also “recedes a little into the background.” The minimal yet warm design doesn’t strive to compete with the views but to better accent them. The color palette of offwhites and creams contrasts with the gray landscape outside, creating a place of retreat.

Rockbound’s layout continues this contrast. Whereas the landscape is all wide, sweeping views, the interior prioritizes privacy. More traditional divisions between spaces organize the three bedrooms; three and a half baths; and living, kitchen, gym, and dining areas. Fireplaces

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and half-walls carve out zones that hug guests, creating a sense of intimacy and coziness.

“We typically approach a lot of our projects with a denial of certain things and then a reveal,” added the firm’s associate Jordan Rice. For Rockbound, this meant establishing the landscape with closely cropped trees to better withhold the oceanic views. This choreography continues within, where the breakthaking views are only revealed after turning a corner—a surprise that only heightens the panorama.

Rockbound may be a cleaner, more conventionally modern home than those typically found in the firm’s portfolio, but the minimalist structure impressively withstands and plays into its terrain. It’s a reminder of the beauty of seemingly simple forms: Here, clarity conceals the complexity required to achieve it. KP

Top: The rocky coastline of Nova Scotia serves as a dramatic backdrop for Rockbound. Above: The kitchen design is seamless thanks to inset cabinets and material consistency.

Top: Exterior textures are inspired by the rugged site and massed in geometric forms.

Above: Sweeping views at the back of the home offer an intimate connection to the sea.

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35 Case Study

Free Rein

Sarah Jacoby Architect renovates a townhouse in Gowanus, Brooklyn, for “an imaginary client.”

Design architect: Sarah Jacoby Architect

Structural engineer: Celin Muñoz-Consulting

Electrical engineer: RAAD

General contractor: Gowanus Custom Builders

Facade system: Sto

Windows: Marvin Windows, SkyFloor

Doors: TruStile

Roof: Delux Millwork

Waterproofing: Sto

Fire protection: 3M

Door hardware: DnD

Grilles: American Vent and AAG

Tile: Cle, Mutina Lane, Futura

Lighting: Apparatus, RBW, Allied Maker, Cedar and Moss, Lenson, USAi, InCommon, Astep

Fixtures and appliances: Vola, Duravit, Miele, Moen, Watermark, Bluworks

Countertop: BAS Stone

Backsplash: Heath Tile

Millwork: De-Lux

Stairs: Architectural Atlantic Stairs

So often developer-led residential projects result in a predictable white box, but what could happen if the developer was also a bespoke client? A townhouse in Gowanus, Brooklyn,

renovated by New York–based Sarah Jacoby Architect (SJA) offered a unique opportunity that strayed from the typical townhouse renovation and challenged a new developer to reimagine the client relationship. The developer, who lives nearby, purchased the townhome, intending to both transform the 2,962-square-foot space on a corner lot and to sell it. Unlike past renovations SJA had worked on, this project was a blank slate, giving Jacoby, as she described, “free rein” to design a house for “an imaginary client.”

“It was more up to us, which made things both harder and easier. You think it’ll be easier, but then you’re like, wait, we’re usually responding to people who have some constraints or some interest,” Jacoby told AN

The three-story townhouse had already been renovated a number of times before Jacoby arrived on-site. Its staircase had been relocated, and the brick facade had seen better days. From the beginning, the need for natural light was apparent. The architects responded to this in a number of ways: first by relocating the stair to the front, strategically placing windows to accommodate both light and privacy, and installing skylights on the roof and the third floor to draw light through the hallways.

Switching the location of the stair played with the layout of the townhouse, creating an open-plan living and kitchen space on the first level and orienting the bedrooms and bathrooms on the two upper floors along a more intimate hallway. Jacoby reflected that in other projects she’s worked on the stair is often the one architectural feature left intact: So, to have freedom to design the structure “feels like a treat.” Simple in its construction and materiality, the new wood staircase features a soft grain and a curving handrail.

The stair was the jumping point for bringing warmth into the interiors. Windows and cabinets were subsequently wrapped in wood framing, and a large island base was made of lumber. This attention to the small details (not always apparent in developer-led projects) is visible throughout: in the bold red color used on the powder room walls, on the curved door handles, and in the quirky closet hidden within the living room wall.

The fun of the project is its speculative nature and the opportunity to make changes without constraints or the judgments of clients. Does the blue front door match with the hue of the red faucet or the simplicity of the wooden elements? Does it matter?

“People always think there needs to be a vision for the house,” Jacoby offered. “Which if you have a vision, great, but I think if people say, ‘Is this tile gonna go with this color?’ and if everything on its own is beautiful and maybe natural, it’ll go.”

That’s not to say design decisions were made willy-nilly. The blue of the front door was, like most features in the house, a considered choice. Its cheery tone is introduced on the exterior: The color was pulled from the standard set of offerings from Marvin Windows and it pairs well with the brick dominating the front and rear elevations of the building. Beyond repairs to the brickwork and its existing lintels, the face of the building, much like the interiors, has seen a complete renovation. Its eastern facade was originally slated to be similarly faced with brick but ultimately had to be stuccoed over using the same blue as the woodwork on the front and the rooftop extension housing the staircase.

“Part of the process is identifying what people like or don’t like, and what doesn’t make us feel too sad to change,” Jacoby said. KK

Left: The townhouse form is retained but updated with a new splash of color.

Clockwise from top left: Color play continues in apertures while leaving walls a calm neutral tone. Colorful accents and statement lights abound in the kitchen and baths, too.

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Kolbe partnered with Gauzy to integrate LCG Smart Glass Technologies into select window and door products. When electricity is applied, the glass changes from opaque to transparent, allowing for adjustable shading.

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Goldbrecht’s new thermally broken Modular Outswing System relies on structural glazing and cutting-edge technology to provide the same slim profiles as the company’s Invisible Wall Sliding and Pivoting System.

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38 Case Study

Living in the Round

JSa and MTA+V turn the multifamily housing model inside out with Pedre, an undulating tower in Mexico City’s El Pedregal neighborhood.

Architect: JSa and MTA+V

Landscape architecture: Devas

General contractor: Factor Eficiencia

Windows and facade system: Venster

Facade system: Venster

Roofing, partitions and ceilings: Portos Global Fittings, doors, closets and kitchens: Dimad

Lighting: Esrawe Studio, Foton

Outdoor furniture: Esrawe Studio

Flooring: Fine Floors

Rippling against a rigorously rectilinear Mexico City skyline, the Pedre residential tower stands apart. Designed by local firms JSa and MTA+V, the 14-story edifice is an amoeba-like, threelobed structure with a circular atrium at its core. The overall effect is one of surprise and delight. Each of the 112 apartment units boasts its own outdoor space. The entire building is capped by a roof garden of fruit trees, and it’s navigable via a meandering path flanked by intimate seating areas. The product of a constrained, triangular site and the intention to capture as

much daylight inside as possible, the sinuous form is also the result of JSa’s ongoing investigation of alternative housing models—those that can generate greater connection, both between residents and with the surrounding environment.

“I’ve always been interested in how housing is shaped by the facade,” said Javier Sánchez, principal of JSa, who led the design alongside JSa partner Benedikt Fahlbusch and Miguel de la Torre of MTA+V. “With Pedre, we wanted to create an extension of the facade that would bend back and forth, allowing light to penetrate deeper into the plan,” Sánchez continued, referencing the building’s undulating edges, which he likens to a string sweeping to and fro across the compact site. “In housing, life is made possible by light.”

In order to achieve this desired form, expressed via a reinforced-concrete structure of 16-inch-thick concrete slabs and concrete columns; floor-to-ceiling windows with strategically placed vertical aluminum “fins” for privacy screening; and a profusion of openair spaces, the design team needed efficient

structural engineering and construction methods.

A BubbleDeck slab system and Aircrete concrete walls rely on prefabricated concrete panels that are cast off-site and then trucked and craned into place. The “waffle” slab system embeds beams and all mechanical conduits into the slab, allowing for a clean appearance in interior spaces.

The feasibility of Pedre’s unusual form is also due to its location in El Pedregal, an area approximately 10 miles south of Mexico City’s center that was first developed by Luis Barragán in the mid-20th century. The name loosely translates to “land covered by rocks.” Barragán was inspired to create modern houses amid the volcanic rock that characterizes El Pedregal, and it is this rock that also laid the groundwork for the new modernity of Pedre. “This part of the city sits on solid volcanic bedrock,” said Sánchez. “The rock is what liberated us construction-wise from a boxlike shape and allowed all the contours of the building to be facades.”

The BubbleDeck system also made possible Pedre’s full-height central atrium, where a radial open staircase encircles a ground-level seating

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area with six monolithic black marble benches. Emblematic of the building’s ethos of connectivity, this atrium invites residents out of their individual units and provides a place for casual encounters. “A sense of community happens here,” reflects Fahlbusch. “Here, your hallway becomes something sculptural and unexpected.”

The 20-foot ceilings of the open-air lobby reference the garden-like entry typical of Barragán’s work, seen as almost “vernacular” to the neighborhood. The high ceilings and a sculptural steel gate allow daylight to sparkle across the terrazzo floor throughout the day. For Miguel de la Torre, who has worked on several residential projects with JSa over the years, this aspect of the unexpected is what gives Pedre staying power. “Every time I go to this building, it surprises me,” he said. “When you design something and it’s still surprising you after it’s finished, that’s how you know it is special.”

Lauren Gallow is a Seattle-based writer and editor covering art, architecture, and design.

Above: Each curved facade plays with alternating glazed faces and balcony voids.

Top right: The lobed plan creates cozy terraces. Right: Statement stairs ascend in the interior atrium.

Far right: Concrete forms are softened by an abundance of greenery throughout.

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39 Case Study

A Dynamic Courtyard

With Brunson Terrace, Brooks + Scarpa carves out an energy-efficient, mixed-use affordable housing project in Santa Monica, California.

Architect: Brooks + Scarpa

Landscape architect: Tina Chee with Brooks + Scarpa

Structural/civil engineer: Labib Funk Engineering

MEP engineer: Idiaz Design

General contractor: United Building

Masonry: Angeles Block Company

Windows: Arcadia, Alpine, U.S. Aluminum

Skylights: Bristolite, Solatube International

Doors: TM Cobb, Timely, Steelcraft, McKeon Door Company, Nationwide Industries, Anemostat Door Products, Total Door Systems.

Hardware: Schlage, Trimco, LCN, Ives, Rixon, Monarch, Pemko, Johnson, Elmes

Roofing: CertainTeed

Tile: Walker Zanger

Fixtures: American Standard, Kohler, Bobrick, Grohe, Chicago Faucets, Toto, Delta

Across the 4,751-square-mile region of Los Angeles County, the seaside city of Santa Monica has become the unrivaled testing ground for innovations in energy-conscious civic design in the service of community. It might just have at least one example for every building type imaginable. Frederick Fisher & Partners’s open-plan office addition to Santa Monica City Hall, for instance, was the first municipal structure to receive Living Building Challenge Certification. Field Operations’s adjacent Tongva Park, funded through California’s now-defunct tax increment financing (TIF) laws, is replete with drought-tolerant plants grown in

local nurseries and watered by the runoff of a nearby recycling facility.

Brunson Terrace, a 48-unit affordable housing project recently completed across the street from Santa Monica College, continues this trend by boasting every energy-saving accolade one can reasonably expect. Designed by the Hawthorne, California–based firm Brooks + Scarpa, the LEED Platinum–status building achieves a Predicted Energy Use Intensity (pEUI) score of 6.6 thanks to a net-zero output—a true rarity for the building type.

Yet the architects drew just as much from the past for inspiration as from projections of future energy use. “The building’s massing— essentially a carved-out cube with strategic openings and a courtyard—belongs to a longer local history of courtyard apartments throughout Southern California ranging from Irving Gill’s 1918 Horatio Court to the classic post–World War II Spanish Colonial Revival Ambrose Gardens,” Angela Brooks, cofounder of Brooks + Scarpa, told AN . The ground floor is a quasi-public space animated by natural light, cross ventilation, and a colorful children’s play structure shielded from the roaring cars of Pico Boulevard by a street-facing community space and 6,700 square feet of ground-level retail.

The various sources of funding and subsidies for Brunson Terrace—including low-income housing tax credits from the State of California, funding from the City of Santa Monica (construction-to-permanent loan), and a loan from the Bank of America—were secured by the Community Corporation of Santa Monica, a local nonprofit founded in 1982 that now manages

nearly 2,000 affordable housing units in the beachside city. Each of these financial sources, however, came with different requirements and concerns. Brooks + Scarpa therefore didn’t have many options regarding the layouts and finishes of the units. “The interiors of affordable housing units are the coding equivalent of sardines in a can,” said Lawrence Scarpa, cofounder of Brooks + Scarpa, “leaving us to squeeze in natural light, cross ventilation, and views where we could.”

The stair, however, was the subject of a harder-fought battle waged by the firm in pursuit of an open-air design that snakes across the courtyard and western elevation. “In the fire department’s ideal world, the stairs would be contained within an enclosed shaft to isolate potential fires from the rest of the building,” Scarpa explains. “But we see the stairs as a part of the lived experience of the affordable housing building type rather than an element of risk management or an afterthought.” The result of this regulatory battle is a dynamic interplay of circulation bridges, stairs, and balconies that maintain a visible connection to the ground-floor courtyard, allowing caretakers to watch over children in the play structure as they wash clothing in the stair-adjacent laundry room.

“As residents circulate vertically, they find smaller side spaces that allow for a variety of more passive activity,” said Brooks. “When you can view a green space or a street or social space, you feel closer to it, so the design allows multiple visual connections to these types of spaces, but also the ability to be physically separate from them, if one desires.” Scarpa added that “people will walk three stories without

thinking about it” when the stairs are visible upon entering the courtyard, leading to the development of a small community.

The building’s LEED Platinum status, dynamic massing, and open stair design are additionally impressive considering that the construction cost was just under a staggering $800,000 per unit, which is still far below the $1 million price tag often seen in California, a product of the state’s skyrocketing property values and exorbitant contracting regulations associated with the building type. Yet the increasing cost of building affordable housing in Santa Monica brings an unavoidable question to light: How affordable is “affordable housing” when it’s developed in one of the wealthiest ZIP codes in America?

Though the residents of Brunson Terrace rent for far below the local market rate (which, in Santa Monica, averages over $3,900 per month), the neighborhood amenities, resources, and transportation infrastructure predominantly cater to a clientele far above their means. Until enough affordable units and related resources pop up across the city to meaningfully offset local wealth disparity, Brunson Terrace will have to largely rely on its own internal community for what is missing just beyond its perimeter and Santa Monica will be a loose constellation of civic-minded projects in search of a direction forward.

Shane Reiner-Roth is a lecturer at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Top: The facade opens at the center, offering a peek at the courtyard beyond.

Above: Sectional variation enlivens all facades.

Right: The interior courtyard offers external circulatory paths as well as park and play areas for residents.

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The details that matter when it comes to the design experience. RCO

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Inspired by the intricate geometric patterns in the fence surrounding Gramercy Park, these handle sets incorporate knurled textures and dark metals. The collection includes tubular handle sets, mortise entrance trims, and door pulls. Baldwin also carries cabinet hardware.

Designed by Neri & Hu, the Zai Collection features a flat metal profile with a gentle radius bend that fits the curvature of the hand. This simple form is applied to a lever door handle, door pull, and window handle, all fabricated in various metallic finishes.

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Created in collaboration with Suede Studio, this handcrafted solid-bronze hardware for kitchens and baths includes cabinet pulls and knobs, door pulls and grips, towel bars, hooks, and a toilet paper holder with shelf.

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ISM-MC7000 | Inox

This smart mortise lock offers a secure access management solution for multi-tenant, hospitality, and mixed-use properties. This ANSI/BHMA Grade 1 mortise lock combines commercial quality with elegant trims in 12 lever options and seven standard finishes.

Shown here in antique copper, the Keaton balanced pressure tub and shower diverter plate is available in more than 20 decorative finishes. Featuring a solid brass construction, it comes with a faceplate with a diverter pull-knob and an ADAcompliant lever handle.

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Using

screws and a hand-forged finish, New York–based Float Studio and Modern Matter created the Marcelle Collection as an homage to bespoke vintage hardware.

Gramercy Handle Set | Baldwin Hardware baldwinhardware.com

Anthology Collection | Keeler Brass Company keelerbrasscompany.com

Anthology is crafted of American-made solid brass and is offered with a palette of different colored leathers. Each piece comes in both standard and custom sizes.

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Keaton Tub & Shower Diverter Plate | Newport Brass newportbrass.com

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Kitchen & Bath

The products and appliances that shape our daily rituals. RCO

Qatego | Duravit USA duravit.com

Qatego is Duravit’s first collection designed in collaboration with Studio F. A. Porsche. The range of bathroom ceramics and furnishings was inspired by stones gently polished by water.

Tub21 | Lacava lacava.com

This freestanding soaking bathtub features fluted detailing made of white solid surface, available in gloss and matte finish. An overflow and a decorative solid-surface drain matches the tub.

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Pot Filler | California Faucets californiafaucets.com

Designed to coordinate with a complete line of matching kitchen accessories, each solid brass Pot Filler features the same Italian-inspired design and craftsmanship as California Faucet’s original Kitchen Collection.

Habito Bath Collection | Gessi gessi.com

The Habito bathroom fixture collection applies metal textures in fabric-inspired patterns including mesh, diamonds, horizontal lines, and dots. Applications range from showerheads to body jets, and include accessories such as towel bars, hooks, and soap holders.

June Rangehood | La Bastille

This reimagined take on the classic box-shaped range hood is handcrafted by a team of artisans in Savannah, Georgia. The modern metal range hood has a bullnose detail, giving the square shape movement and flow.

Bathroom Sinks | Mila International mila-international.com

Mila’s modern stainless steel bathroom sinks feature the brand’s patented slotted drain channel that spans the length of the sink. This slotted design not only provides a clean and minimalist look, it also allows water to drain smoothly and efficiently.

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Each of Kallista’s ONE solid brass faucets features handles with hand-hammered details crafted by the artisans at P. E. Guerin, New York City’s storied makers of custom hardware.

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This porcelain stoneware collection is a collaboration between Fioranese and the 23Bassi Architecture Firm, inspired by the landscape symbols in Florence, L’Aquila, and Siena.

XLight is Porcelanosa’s large-format porcelain available in extraslim sizes. Ideal for walls and floors, XLight re-creates the look of cement, marble, stone, wood, and metal in polished, silk, textured, and natural finishes.

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Made of 50 percent postconsumer recycled PET, these Sola Felt block are NRC-tested, fire-rated, and come in six different shapes and a variety of depths. Each is available in five different colorways: Monochromatic, Gray, Blue, Green, and Colorful.

Created in collaboration with the LATOxLATO design studio, the Flow line of wallcoverings bridges art, architecture, and design. The wallpaper’s refined cool and warm tones create chiaroscuro effects within the space.

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Reducing material from the backside of the Bjelin’s stone plastic–composite flooring panels makes these up to 20 percent lighter, easier to handle, and more sound-absorbent than alternative options.

Behr’s 2024 Color of the Year is Cracked Pepper, a dark gray/soft black hue that can help create a bold statement as an entire wall or an accent in kitchens, living spaces, and bedrooms.

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This collection includes large-scale wall tiles in five harmonious colors. While the flat tiles glow with subtle pearlescent shimmer, the three-dimensional ceramic tiles evoke triangular geometry.

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45 Resources

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Arcadia arcadiacustom.com

CRL crlaurence.com

Glass Flooring Systems glassflooringsystems.com

Goldbrect goldbrecht.com

Hawa hawa.com

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Kawneer kawneer.com

Kolbe Windows & Doors kolbewindows.com

Maiden Door maidensteel.com

Marvin Windows marvin.com

McKEON Door Company mckeondoor.com

Milgard Windows and Doors milgard.com

NanaWall nanawall.com

Panoramic Doors panoramicdoors.com

PPG ppgresidentialglass.com

PK-30 System pk30system.com

Quaker Windows quakerwindows.com

RAM ramwindows.com

Reynears reynears.com

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Steelcraft steelcraft.com

Total Door Systems totaldoor.com

TruStile trustile.com

Venster vensterwindows.com

Western Window Systems westernwindowsystems.com

YKK ykkap.com

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3form Elements 3-form.com

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Behr behr.com

Ceramica Fiorense fioranese.it

Clé cletile.com

Cosentino cosentino.com

Crossville crossville.com

Daltile Daltile.com

Ege Carpets egecarpets.com

Fine Floors finefloorscorp.com

Hanover hanoverpavers.com

Inkiostro Bianco inkiostrobianco.com

La Nova Tile lanovatile.com

Legno Bastone legnobastone.com

Porcelanosa porcelanosa.com

Revolution Mills revolutionmills.com

Walker Zanger walkerzanger.com

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Accurate Lock accuratelockandhardware.com

Allegion us.allegion.com

Assa Abloy assaabloy.com

Baldwin Hardware baldwinhardware.com

Belwith Keeler belwith-keeler.com

Bridgeport bridgeportworldwide.com

Buster + Punch busterandpunch.com

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Emtek emtek.com Ento ento.it

Inox inoxproducts.com

Johnson johnsonhardware.com

Keeler Brass Company keelerbrasscompany.com

Modern Matter modern-matter.com

Rocky Mountain Hardware rockymountainhardware.com

Schlage schlage.com

Stanley stanleydoorproducts.com

Sugatsune sugatsune.com

Trimco trimcohardware.com

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A&D Building adbuilding.com

American Standard americanstandard-us.com

BAS Stone basstonenyc.com

Bobrick bobrick.com

California Faucets californiafaucets.com

Chicago Faucets chicagofaucets.com

Delta Faucet deltafaucet.com

Duravit duravit.com

Gessi gessi.com

Hansgrohe hansgrohe.com

Heath Ceramics heathceramics.com

Infinity Drain infinitydrain.com

JennAir jennair.com

Kallista kallista.com

Kohler kohler.com

La Bastille labastille.com

Lacava lacava.com

Mila International mila-international.com

THOR Kitchen thorkitchen.com

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