Thursday, November 10, 2005

Rodeo Drive boutique


This small boutique on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills shows the work of our artisans even on the smallest of projects. We can work on small or large projects anywhere in the world.

Museum Quality


Museum quality work is a trade mark of our company. The materials used on the exterior facade of this museum in Berlin, an I.M Pei project, were used in the famous Louvre Museum in Paris. We are currently working on museum in Qatar using this same material. We are supplying over 200 containers of materials for this project.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Natural Stone Services

ARISMENDEZ is a full service stone company. To our clients we offer the benefit of over 20 years of experience as a project manager and field supervisor for multi-million dollar design build projects across the United States. All of this experience translates into free service to help in phases of the acqusition of natural stone for architectural projects. We work with our client starting in the design development stage. Helping with the initial stone selection, verify sources of stone, through budgeting, testing and completion of the installation. Should technical direction be needed for the installation portion we can advise our client on solutions to meet the budget, schedule and client demands.

Limestone features of main residence


The courtyard of the main residential building showing the complex nature of the demands placed upon the fabricator and our ability to meet these demands. Included in this photograph are ballustrade, 30 ' tall columns, capitals, an arcade, rail cap, cornice, architraves, stairs and paving. All of the material was extracted from a single banc in the quarry to create a monolithic presentation of tone and color.

Cornice made of French limestone


A beautiful residence located in the heart of Newport Coast, an exclusive enclave in Southern California. All of the limestone here is hand carved in France by craftsman whose skill in the art of stone was learned from their fathers.
Francepierre, the fabricator of the limestone, extracted the raw materials from their quarries and followed a time tested process to ensure the materials were fabricated to exact needs of the dwelling.