St. Patrick’s Day 2012

Happy St Patrick’s Day 2012.  What is so important about this day?

1. It is Arto Alajian’s 83rd Birthday.
2. It is the day we incorporated the company.
3. And it is the unofficial start of Spring and the building season.
4. Lastly, we not only are very appreciative of all our clients and distributors, we are very appreciative of ARTO and all the hardworking people that have dedicated their lives to him as he dedicated his life for us.

We share our picture because we want you to know us. We are genuine and sincere from good morning to start the day till the last piece is made and the last order goes out for the day, real like the sunrise and sunset.

Our employees embody hundreds of years of experience in each room of the factory.

Over the next few weeks our Dealer and Distributors will receive 4 items in the mail to celebrate and share.

First is a postcard of the ARTO Family.  We are a family literally and spiritually.  On the front is a picture taken on the last Friday of the 2011.  Here you can see how our family has grown with the addition of Western Quarry and our ARTO Tile Studio.

Second, you will all receive a Vintage Catalina Tile Deco, Made by Western Quarry and glazed by the ARTO Tile Studio.

Third, Candy.  Like our tiles we have commissioned a talented candy maker to handcraft, some of the best peanut brittle you will ever taste, in our new arabesque shapes.  Please share.

Forth, new products.  We are a design and manufacturing firm and continue to add more to an already expansive line of concrete and clay.

Thank you for being our partners and lets make 2012 a great year.

If you haven’t received any of the above items from us, drop us a line and well make sure you are able to share in the celebration.

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	Arabesque Pattern2c	Arabesque Pattern3
Arabesque Pattern 4	Arabesque Pattern 5b	Arabesque Pattern 8a
Arabesque Pattern 8b	Arabesque Pattern 8c	Arabesque Pattern 9a

“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!

While doing some research for Arabesque I ran across this group for 1978.  Any one know anything about them?