Gardena California – New Jewelry District

You Don’t Drive a Bentley without a BIG Watch in Malbu Gardena California’s New Jewelry District ARTO Tile studio is a division of ARTO that produces hand painted deco tiles, murals and jewelry. These are the true “bling” that accents our concrete line from ARTO and our clay line form Western Quarry. The Tile Studio, Read More

Coverings 2012 Thanks

The Professional One Well We “Thinks” So   We prepared this before we left for Orlando with our staff & stuff. We assume it went well for us and for you as well. Upon our return home we will catch our breath and start planning for the next show and theme. Last year we focused Read More

You Got Chocolate in My Peanut Butter

You Got Peanut Butter on My Chocolate Who Carries Around a Jar of Peanut Butter Long Beach, CA—Ken Mason Tile (KMT) is set to launch Village Line at Coverings 2012. The Village Line consists of ARTO’s signature rustic concrete tiles with KMT’s staining and waxing process.  Handmade tiles are stained (hand rubbed) which leaves the Read More

Edible Arabesque

Europe, Islam, Ballet, Debussy, Disco, Peck & Sophia Loren. Searching for the Meaning   Gardena, CA—The word “arabesque” is as ambiguous as the tile shapes that we produce and call by that same name.  When ARTO started to create his “Arabesque,” he knew that he was inspired by Moorish, Celtic, Islamic, Spanish and M.C. Escher, Read More

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Clay:

Love/Leather, The Milkman & Concrete Gardena, CA—Adversity is said to be the mother of invention, the fire that transforms music, art & food. Arto Alajian, a designer born in Cairo, the son of Krikor, an Armenian refugee, began designing & literally cutting tanned leather from Milan. When revolution came to Egypt, he fled to Beirut Read More