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| Date | 1/27/2014 7:36:52 AM |
| Written By | LGM & Associates Technical Flooring Services |
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| Abstract | Fairfield, IA —(Jan. 14, 2014)—Annie Aalto of Aalto Design/Creative Edge Master Shop will be awarded the Marble Institute of America’s Pinnacle Award of Merit for Commercial Interiors for 2013. This highly coveted award recognizes... |
| Article | Fairfield, IA —(Jan. 14, 2014)—Annie Aalto of Aalto Design/Creative Edge Master Shop will be awarded the Marble Institute of America’s Pinnacle Award of Merit for Commercial Interiors for 2013. This highly coveted award recognizes projects whose beauty, creativity, ingenuity, and craftsmanship exemplify professional mastery in the use of natural stone in commercial and residential environments. The awards will be presented at StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas in Las Vegas on Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at the MIA Awards Luncheon. Aalto will be honored for her original design of the stunning marble lobby floor of the Shanghai Putuo Hotel, which was fabricated by Aalto Design’s sister company, Creative Edge Master Shop. For the Shanghai Hotel Putuo project, located in the upscale Putuo district of Shanghai, Aalto Design was commissioned by the project’s interior designers, VOA Associates, to create a custom floor design that followed the curving lines of a Tornado Bar and swirling ceiling fixture—not only to further their wind-motion theme—but to direct the flow of traffic from the hotel's lobby to the reception desk and from there to guestrooms and on to the bar and seating areas. “VOA asked us to create a design to coordinate with the interior but not take away from its very modern, streamlined contemporary look,” says designer Annie Aalto. To create the stunning whole-floor design that sweeps like the wind across the massive lobby, Aalto designed thick lines of the same width to swirl across the floor, the similarity in dimension giving it a more controlled, reserved, almost mathematical feeling. She also ended each curve with a flat end to make it look less organic. The completed floor is constructed in four shades of stone—Royal Botticino, New Royal Botticino, and Bursa Dark marble, plus Limra limestone. The owner of the project, Ming Jie Real Estate, determined early on that waterjet technology was the only way to achieve the long curves in a marble floor. They contacted Creative Edge through their partner in Shanghai, Hawei Perrett of FNW Co. |