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We fell in love with these concrete "skins" by Tactility Factory not too long ago.  Seems like we may be late to the party because Piet Boon has partnered with NLXL to create a line of concrete wallpaper, which debuted at this years ICFF.

While casting precast panels or using troweled concrete as a finish is pretty great, there is something about being able to create a unique space without the cost and labor involved in the real thing. 

With this product, if you grow tired of your concrete covered walls (honestly, we don't see how that could happen) you can remove them without much fuss, which is also great.

Oh ICFF, you bring out the best in all of us. 

In the works...Bicycle Roots

We've embedded nuts and bolts, shells, glass, and more recently, metal shavings into concrete. 

These tops have bicycle parts in them, which will be exposed in the finishing process. We're casting these for a bike shop in Brooklyn, NY. 

Bicycle Roots, which is opening a showroom and repair shop on Fulton Street very soon (read about them here), has chosen to cast bike parts into their new concrete countertops. 

Great big thumbs up from us. 

Where credit is due.

This weekend, New York Times Magazine featured the Laakkonen / Rosen country house in East Hampton, NY. The home is made to look like two original barns that have been connected by walkways to a more contemporary barn.  

Surprisingly, the article does not mention the architects who no doubt played a huge role in this project. Nor does it mention who poured and polished the concrete floors that you see throughout the home. 

So we thought we would.  

The architects on the project were Tim Furzer & Nandini Bagchee.

Get Real Surfaces poured and polished the concrete floors. 

There. We feel better now.