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The trip to India opened up an entirely new way to bring design to her clients. "I love the natural stone, it's just beautiful," Wood said. "There are so many colors and textures, a real richness that expanded the palette for artwork for murals, backsplashes, wainscoting accents and medallions set in floors."
When she returned to her home in No-vato, Wood went to work. She designed all of the tiles on the company's Web site, www.exoticaindica.com. "I was inspired by a traditional look," she said, "but they are all our own unique designs." She has grouped her designs in eight collections, including "natural beauty" (where the oak leaf can be found), "bamboo," the Taj Mahal and "oasis.""They look at the grain to determine what part of the stone to use to create the natural shading," she said. The more experienced craftsmen work on the more intricate tiles. [Lamona Wood]'s design possibilities have just recently expanded. "We have just come up with an amazing palette of gemstones-wider than anything anybody has on the market. It's given us an incredible range of color and textures, a rainbow palette of natural marbles and gemstones we can use like paint." The men in Agra will be working with, among other stones, lapis from Afghanistan, African turquoise and many types of jasper, malachite, tiger's eye and aventurine.See the full content of this document
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Tiles of the City
If there's anyone who questions the reach of globalization, consider this: A fallen oak leaf picked up from the ground in Novato was the inspiration for an exquisite inlaid tile made in a workshop in the shadow of the Taj Mahal.
The leaf was plucked from obscurity by Lamona Wood of...See the full content of this document
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