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Do you know where one can purchase this?
Thanks!

I'm new to terrazzo. Are they all the same other than this eco-tile? If anyone has used terrazzo, what has been your experience?

Rich--

Terrazzo is standard practice in a certain era of Florida and Palm Springs MCM ranches, as well as an earlier appearance in the Deco hotels of South Beach, and it is back in vogue.

It is incredibly hardwearing, but has to be installed (even when installed in place.. basically poured concrete with aggregate which is polished down) with metal spacer rods to give the big areas of concrete some way/place to expand and contract without cracking.

The beauty of that is that you can incorporate those metal spacers into the design, as evident in many of the SoBe Deco hotels. And the rods are very thin, and not dirt collectors as they sound, or as grout would be.

But even so, the expanses can be pretty vast and uninterrupted, the installation most often seen in low-slung ranchers.

I love the look of it (It IS cold in the winter, tho) but not sure it can be installed in say a high-rise, due to weight, unless you went the tile route, but I may be wrong on that.

sounds like there are slabs big enough to be countertops-- what a beautiful alternative to everpresent black granite. Anyone know how it wears as a counter-- and is it priced like granite?

I work at Daltile, and for about a year, we've been offering a similar product called Santa Regina. (I'm just mentioning it since we have showrooms all over the country, in case someone in Kansas wants to look at this type of product. ; ) )

Please contact me to inform me who and where I can purchase Eco Terr Terrazzo in the St. Louis market.

Thanks!
Susie
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