Editor's Notes
- #2: 1. “The Gathering Place” at the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Fort Baker Sausalito, CA. This outdoor meeting area features a celestially accurate compass rose and aquatic animals native to the Pacific Ocean. Total Porject covers 800 sq. ft. with bluestone, marble and travertine.
- #3: 2. Detail of Bay Area Discovery Museum 1 cm tesserae (pieces)
- #4: 3. Cutting tesserae in the traditional fashion with a hammer and hardie
- #5: 4. Pippa Murray’s team of trained artisans setting mosaics in the studio in Sausalito, California
- #6: 5. Sections fabricated in the studio are numbered, boxed, and assembled onsite. We produce only quality work with attention to every detail.
- #7: 6. Aerial photo of Pippa Murray’s installation team at work on a residential estate. We see the job through from beginning to end - on time, on budget.
- #8: 7. Detail shot of a 1,000 square foot mosaic residential hallway. The floor is made of 800,000 individual tesserae, set in 956 sections in the indirect technique. The seams where the sections meet virtually disappear thanks to flawless installation by our studio’s experienced team.
- #9: 8. The Classic Powder Room at the Decorator Showcase House in San Francisco. Hand-cut sectile work in Thassos marble and classic tesselated mosaic in French and Mexican limestone embellished this 3 x 9 foot room. Design, fabricated and installed by our studio in 2009.
- #10: 9. Detail of the mosaic work integrated into the had-rubbed Venetian plaster wall with custom cove base wrap. This installation was featured in House Beautiful Magazine, August 2009.
- #11: 10.”Boulder “ displayed at the Ruth Bancroft Garden, 15 th Annual Juried Sculpture in the Garden Exhibit, 2009. Basalt with 22 karat gold inlay.