What to Pair with all those Belgian-Inspired Vanities
Or, Giovanni Barbieri + New Ravenna One of the finest visionaries in the surfaces world is Giovanni Barbieri. I met Giovanni at the Verona Fair (the Italian trade show for all things stone related)...
View ArticleHow I Try to Keep my Sanity
Although some people would debate the sanity part. New Ravenna is a busy place, and although it can be exhilarating, sometimes the pressure of making sure the trains run on time is, well,...
View ArticleMartha Stewart and Sara Baldwin
Well, not exactly. A few weeks ago, an idea that I thought was pretty, ahem, brilliant made it’s way into my Halloween skull. Lately I’ve been fascinated by lights with designs punched into their...
View ArticleNew Ravenna’s “Big-Girl Catalog”
It gives me great pleasure to announce a sales tool upgrade–we have a new catalog! For years, whenever one of our dealers has desired to share more of the New Ravenna line with a customer, they have...
View ArticleDown on the Farm…
Almost exactly one year ago I received a text message from my assistant and New Ravenna Human Resource director Mary Harris, “We now have goats!” accompanied by this pic: Little Lou and Thelma She and...
View ArticleFast Cars and Women
We’ve been busy! A big THANK YOU to all the folks who sell and buy New Ravenna products–we wrapped up a stellar year with incredible sales improvements over the two years previous, and this year is...
View ArticleI get by…
with a little help from my New Ravenna friends. One afternoon at about 5 minutes til 5:00, I sent out an email plea to my entire company asking for hydrangeas so we could use them in a photo shoot the...
View ArticleGo Fig-ure
When trying to figure out how to prop our lovely Tamara panel for it’s close-up, I turned to my friend and marketing director Christine Campbell as I oftentimes do and said “Hey, what should we use on...
View ArticleA Name to Live Up To
Or, Kevin O’Brien Piglet Give-away When people ask how the name “New Ravenna” came to be, I find myself flashing back twenty years or so to my last year of grad school when I visited my handsome friend...
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