Edgewater Wall Tiles: Marrying Art With Technology

Edgewater of British Colombia creates a variety of in-house artisan tiles using glass, stone, wood, metal and porcelain by using an industrial waterjet to create the shapes. Waterjet Cutting is a significant manufacturing technology that offers important new options in the cutting of materials. All types of metals from 1/16" to 5" thick are good candidates for waterjet.

Edgewater also produces custom shapes, cut glass and inlay materials enabling their clients the freedom to apply their own creativity. Take a look at some of the samples and installations of their unique and premium tiles:




















About Edgewater:
Edgewater was originally formed with a vision - to marry artistic design with an industrial waterjet. We set out to provide high quality, custom work that is locally made and affordable. Today, our expertise in precision cutting reflects a range of challenging projects and clientele - from artists to engineering firms.

Our success is based on strong client relationships built around an ability to provide exceptional customer service and unwavering attention to quality.



Contact Info:
Office Phone 604.985.9251
Fax 604.985.9254
email: info@edgewaterjet.ca
101-1429 Dominion St.
North Vancouver, B.C.
V7J 1B3

Folk Gets Funky & Peasants Are Pretty In John Galliano's Latest Collection

Fashion designer John Galliano has just shown his Fall/Winter 2009 RTW collection and, in typical Galliano fashion, it's quite fantastical. The line has a distinctively Baltic bent to it as it mixes brocades, embroidery, cashmere, coins and wild shoes to culminate in a Russian folkloric (and I swear I see a little Flemish in there), but fashionable style. Although it's a "ready to wear" line, as opposed to haute couture, I don't think you'll see many people sporting these in your local grocery store.




above: John Galliano talks about his collection

As is his style, everything is considered from head to toe, literally. The headdresses harken back to historical ethnic inspiration from both religious and royal realms. And the shoes? Well, the shoes are wild, as you will see.



Layered materials punctuated with everything from rosaries as accessories, cog-like hardware, metallic threads and pom poms on the shoes distinguish this collection.



White mascara on the models with lips painted a la clara bow contribute to the unusual, but appealing overall look.



I've rounded up enough photos to do a post on just the makeup and hair, just the shoes OR just the clothing... but nothing does justice to Galliano's creations like seeing all the parts together as a whole.

Get yourself a drink and settle in. I've got a lot of photos here.

The Clothes:
















The Headdresses and Make-up:










The Details:











The Shoes:







and of course, the designer, the inimitable (and now we can add, anti-semitic), John Galliano:

John Galliano

The photos in this post are courtesy of both John Galliano, The AP and Style.com. The full length runway photos were shot by Marco Madiera and the close ups of the details and models were shot by Don Ashby & Olivier Claisse.