One of the nation's premier private schools, Miami Country Day School, received the donation of a custom-created glass mosaic floor for Plaza Colombia, the main entrance of its Katherine E. Franco Center for Learning Resources. This floor, which included the school's "seal," was handmade using over 60,000 tiny pieces of glass. Completely suitable for high foot-traffic areas, it took Surfaces' world-class mosaic artisans just over two months to create this magnificent piece of art.
Techniques used to make this mosaic date back to ancient Rome and Greece, allowing the artists to create complex shapes with highest quality precision. In total, months of planning, hundreds of hours of work and thousands of small mosaic glass pieces, specifically dedicated to this project, were proudly donated to the school by Albert and Karise Claramonte, owners of Surfaces, Inc.
According to Albert Claramonte: “Donating this beautiful glass mosaic to Miami Country Day offers our company the opportunity to help visually enhance a school which has a clear-cut mission to give children from the Miami area the highest quality education. Karise and I were honored to contribute this piece of art as a centerpiece for such an important building. We hope it will inspire children to focus some of their upcoming energies on artistic pursuits.”
About SurfacesMiami-based Surfaces is constantly creating new products. The firm created the first iPhone App for the tile industry. Additionally, Surfaces created a brand new nationwide program at Lowe’s to sell 100% recycled glass produced with discarded automobile windshields. Surfaces in the past has also successfully created the exclusive Britto Glass Collection in partnership with world-renowned pop artist Romero Britto, introduced peel 'n' stick backsplash kits for the consumer marketplace and most recently, unveiled the Crayola Glass Mosaic Collection to North America.
For more information, please contact Albert Claramonte at Surfaces, Inc. aclaramonte@surfaces.net 305-372-9787 or visit the website: www.surfaces.net.
