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As seen on TV: Ryan Brown of 'Flipping Out' puts down roots

Designer Ryan Brown has a fan and friend of ARTO for many years now. Recently his home was featured in the Los Angeles Times along with the ARTO Roman Pavers in Early Gray that make up his garden path and pool coping.

(Christine Cotter / Los Angeles Times)

Interior designer Ryan Brown, known as the voice of reason on the Bravo reality series "Flipping Out," has made a living buying ugly duckling properties, turning them into beauties and selling them for profit. But as fans of "Flipping Out" know, Brown and his domestic partner, chef Dale Monchamp, had a daughter through a surrogate and wanted to put down roots. Two years ago they bought a 1942 two-story stucco house in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles

The yard was relandscaped to include a mosaic tile pool, an organic vegetable garden and a lawn with a concrete paver path from Arto Brick in Gardena. With extensive changes inside and out, the tab for renovations came to about $700,000. "I did it as inexpensively as possible to use the materials I wanted," Brown says, adding that without his industry sources the cost would have run $1 million.

www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-0815-brown-pictures,0,3234541.photogallery

Posted: 8/24/2009 10:16:26 AM by William | with 0 comments

ARTO Provides Custom Panels for Metro Mariachi Station

ARTO is providing custom panels for the new Mariachi Station for the Metro Gold Line Extension. Of the eight new stations Mariachi Station is one of only two located underground.

The centerpiece of the adjacent Mariachi Plaza is a grand gazebo carved from cantera store that was donated in 1998 by the Mexican state of Jalisco to honor the contributions of the mariachi musicians who congregate in the plaza.

ARTO produced custom concrete panels for the canopies for the stairs down to the underground station. The panels were designed to match the cantera stone on the gazebo to allow for a seamless transtion between the existing plaza and the new station.

About The Metro Gold Line Extension
The Metro Gold Line arrives in East LA. With eight new stations serving diverse LA neighborhoods, such as the Arts District, Little Tokyo and Boyle Heights, this eagerly awaited extension will connect the Eastside by rail to Downtown LA, Pasadena, San Fernando Valley, South Bay, Long Beach and dozens of points in between.

Posted: 8/3/2009 1:05:46 PM by William | with 0 comments

Habitat for Humanity

Did you know that Arto donates products to Habitat for Humanity? Almost all Arto products are made to order to minimize waste but we occassionally have extra materials due to production overruns or the odd return.

Arto is proud to support Habitat for Humanity by donating this material for use in their construction projects or to be sold by their retail stores.

To learn more about Habitat for Humanity visit their website http://www.habitat.org/

Posted: 9/9/2008 1:41:49 PM by William | with 0 comments

PCBC aka Pacific Coast Builders Conference

Filed under: On The Road — Armen Alajian @ 4:10 pm

This past week Arto was at PCBC held at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. A first for this generation: a trade show so far from home base. I think Arto himself did a trade show in Vegas, once.

This first pic was taken on the roof of Moscone. The convention hall is subterranean, very cool.

These pics are of our booth and crew. The crew all did an awesome job. Left to right; Stephanie, Sarah, Will & Sam (I am in the third one down, far right). These pics were taken at 2:59 PM on Friday, the show ended at 3PM. The booth was well used, but everything still looks great doesn’t it?

These are pics of our (convention hall) neighbors. The last ones are a series & one of them was having fun.

Posted: 8/12/2008 12:47:43 AM by Armen Alajian | with 0 comments