NPCA article quick note
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Our art department will do a better job in a few days crafting the page but in the mean time enjoy this video.
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Be Our Guest at Surfaces 2012
Be our guest at Surfaces 2012 in Fabulous Las Vegas January 24-26. ARTO will be displaying a huge 10×20 booth featuring ARTO’s signature rustic concrete and clay tiles. We will also be introducing Studio, hand painted cuerda seca tiles. Visit Surfaces.com, register and use the Promo Code: BIEP. If you don’t gamble you may come out ahead. 
A 23 year old tradition
Since I was 18 , 23 years ago now I have been coming in to ARTO on New Years Day.I come in for some corny reasons. I open the doors and turn on the water something about new air and water mostly hokum. But I do a few things that are not. I reflect, write, pray, look at the facts & set goals & a direction then pray again that I am not full of BS. Remembering that I do not know everything but preparing for everything, preparing for opportunities & drought.
Cigar Booze & Fear of the Lord
Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
No need to add to this. All I can say is be grateful.
Proclamation of Thanksgiving
Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863
By the President of the United States of America.
A Proclamation.
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes
Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation
seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward,
Secretary of State
ARTO on DIY’s Extra Yardage
Enjoy a nine minute video of ARTO highlights on the new hit DIY Series “Extra Yardage”. The host Billy Derian is not only enjoyable to watch but has a vision for transforming dull backyards to livable spaces that inspire. Of course those spaces include plenty of ARTO. You can see full versions of these episodes on the DIY network.
Filming has already begun on the next season and that’s right, there will be plenty of beautiful ARTO tiles, bricks, Roman pavers, and precast to see.
Thanks for watching and feel free to leave a comment.
Timeless Artistic Tiles
Call it Arabesque. Call it Celtic, Moorish, interlace, Islamic. Modern? Rustic? Although the ideas, and these classic shapes, have been around for thousands of years ARTO has interpreted them in a new way.
Concrete.
Integrated colored concrete to be specific.
Arto has been creating brick, tile and precast in southern California since 1966 using colored concrete. The result is the ability to produce any shape, color and style imaginable.
Which brings us back to Arabesque. It’s not new. But what you can do with it becomes new. Be traditional or untraditional. Be rustic and modern at the same time. Add bold colors or muted tones.
If you can think it we can do it.
 Arabesque Pattern 2b |
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 Arabesque Pattern 4 |
 Arabesque Pattern 5b |
 Arabesque Pattern 8a |
 Arabesque Pattern 8b |
 Arabesque Pattern 8c |
 Arabesque Pattern 9a |
See ARTO at the ASLA EXPO 2011
ARTO will be at the ASLA Expo 2011 in San Diego. October 30th to November 2nd. Come by Booth # 1939 and say “Hi”. Enjoy free admission compliments of ARTO. Just click on the flyer below to download a free pass. Thanks and see you in San Diego!
“Friday Night” and Arabesque, Tiles for Walls and Floors
Friday Night Oh what a night! ARTO has been working hard in the concrete lab to create 18 new Moorish inspired tiles. Some incorporate shapes we already have like the 12×13 Big Felipe, 3×5 Diamond, and the Daisy form the Daisy Deco, While most are brand new. Click on the thumbnails for larger picture!
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While doing some research for Arabesque I ran across this group for 1978. Any one know anything about them?
A New Creation
Howdy
I am very excited about the new site that the ARTO art department put together in house. It reminds me of the old days of working with Dream Weaver and guessing how to put a site together not very pretty but boy did the personal touch work. The new site goes back to our roots yet still is a new creation.
Peace
Armen