Project Assistance and Site Management

SMOKE & MIRRORS SERVICES

HOW WE WORK FOR YOU & WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT

Design and Development Support

We will assist you with your specific ideas or designs, and assist in the selection of appropriate products for quality and implementation.

Support is offered for Design assistance, engineering support, sourcing, contracting, budgetary management, site management, project supervision, contract negotiations, Production Management and Control, Logistics

Project Assistance and Site Management

Add us to your team and save time and money. As a Single Source House, we will supply any materials needed for completion; including Attaching Systems, Water Jet Cutting, Monuments and Sculptures, etc.

SMOKE & MIRRORS focuses on controlling the vendors, coordinating production, cost control, labor and installation problems and solutions and combining services in an integrated, coherent and timely manner.

Key Benefits

	Coordination of all Product Selections and Vendors
	*Gives you time for other projects (saving/creating money for you)*
	More Control with less time spent - Featuring our "One Contract-One Contact" Services

Capabilities

We will work with you from the very beginning stages of your project, so you have more control of the outcome. Beginning with your imagination or from sketches, we will work with you to develop your concept until set. We will then coordinate all aspects of the project as you wish, including the responsibilities involved in being your Site Management representative, to manage all phases of the project (including portions of the job we are not directly supplying to your design).

Integrated Elements in Stone, Rock, Metal & Wood

To include: Custom Cabinetry, Sculpted Metal Art, Hardware, Quarry Services, et al

Integrated Elements in Stone, Rock, Metal, Wood - As demonstrated throughout, SMOKE & MIRRORS is experienced and dedicated in providing you with the finest Design Elements available in the World. Over decades, we have garnered the highest quality Artisans, Studios, Suppliers and Vendors on Earth, in these elements as well as Glass.

Key Benefits

	SINGLE SOURCE SERVICES to simplify your life.
	You create the Design - we gather the elements and seamlessly integrate your vision into a finished project.
	Significant Time and Cost Savings in the gathering, sourcing and contracting.

Capabilities

Featuring our SINGLE SOURCE SERVICES, we offer the following;

Combine all elements of your project and integrate them into a unified contract for all of your design requirements. From concept to sampling/sourcing to production.

Combine all of the products and production into a unified contract to simplify the overall time requirements hence relieving the burden from you and your customers.

SMOKE & MIRRORS will supply all materials and labor, production and delivery, installation and site management in one contract. You no longer need to supervise and coordinate numerous suppliers, contractors, studios, artisans or labor.

Custom Sampling & Support

We supply samples of all requested pieces, including custom samples; we hunt for you, saving you considerable time and money

Custom Sampling and Support - Often the most tedious, frustrating and time consuming portion of a project is the capital risk (money/time) spent "hunting" and producing samples to satisfy a Design requirement. Whether by vendor, catalog, internet, industry publication/contacts or select studios; the process is burdensome and time consuming. Not with SMOKE & MIRRORS

Key Benefits

	Time back to you for other projects, money saved in time, to produce more money.
	SINGLE SOURCE SERVICES, One Contact, One Contract, One Source.
	Comprehensive Choices, Budget Control, All Elements of your Design.

Capabilities

One call to SMOKE & MIRRORS and you arrive at thousands of options for your Design Concepts. You can select from stock or limited items, custom crafted or signature custom pieces, or any combinations. Stone to GLASS ART, Custom Metal to Cabinetry or Lighting, Floors to Stairs, we will present these options to you for consideration, to include pricing and budgetary considerations, timing and availability, degree of difficulty to labor considerations. Clear Choices, One Source.

Stock items from hundreds of suppliers and vendors, including hardware, attaching systems, bases, lighting, flooring, metal, cabinetry, fixtures, etc.

Limited Edition or Customizable items and combinations that few know about or are able to contract for, such as Limited Quarry rights for Stone and Marble, Limited runs of certain metals and Glass Stocks, Studio Shop/Artisan Time allotments (including specialized pricing rights), GLASS ART from select distributors only).

One-of-a-Kind - SIGNATURE SERIES or SIGNATURE PIECES, Artisan Rights that are granted to very few dealer/distributors. This includes Custom Metal Art, Stone and Marble Work, GLASS Artisans, Custom Cabinetry Studios, Custom Fixtures and Lighting Specialty Applications-Techniques-Materials.

Guild of Specialists

As a Single Source House, we will supply any materials needed for completion; including Attaching Systems, Water Jet Cutting, Monuments and Sculptures, etc

SINGLE SOURCE SERVICES, for your convenience and savings

Guild of Specialists - An extraordinary concept created by SMOKE & MIRRORS to offer our clientele the finest of Artisans and Studios in the tradition of the ancient form of the European Style "GUILD HOUSE" Union. We are suppliers of the finest Artisans in the World for top level Craftsmanship and Excellence.

Key Benefits

	Access to exceptional talent and options from a SINGLE SOURCE.
	Substantial SAVINGS in both Time and Money.
	Options available nowhere else.

Capabilities

From Stone and Marble, Wood, Metal, GLASS ART; SMOKE & MIRRORS offers design and product sourcing from the standard to the highly custom and exclusive. Support is offered for Design assistance, engineering support, sourcing, contracting, budgetary management, site management, project supervision, contract negotiations, Production Management and Control, Logistics and the always important returning time back to you for other concerns and projects. One call and we can incorporate the experience and expertise of hundreds of specialist and artisans to offer a wide array option on any portion of a project or the entire project and all of its elements and degrees of complexity-Worldwide.

A SHORT LIST OF SOME OF OUR PRODUCTS:

GLASS:

Architectural Glass from Europe & South America (over 100 selections)

Japanese Laminated & Acid Etched Architectural Glasses (including faux rice papers)

Bendheim Products (sample box available with approx. 36 selections)

Laminated rice papers

Custom laminated glasses using resins for the following:

“Shattered Glass, ”Stamped Metals, Art or Architectural Glasses (unlimited possibilities) Fabrics (consult with us on your selection). Resins (can be tinted to your palette in all applications)

Art Glasses: “Stained” thousands of selections- single sheets make great cost effective art. Art Glass is “pulled from the furnace & hand rolled. It is not annealed (heat strengthened) like Architectural or float (flat) glass and cannot be tempered. However, it can be resin laminated for safety to meet code or resin laminated to heavy float glass for table tops, counters, vanities.

Stained “Leaded” Glass

Back Painted & Tinted or Marbled Glasses from 1/8” to 1 ½” thick Tints are to your palette-unlimited

Silk Screened Glasses (unlimited color combinations & patterns including graphics

“Etch Matte” (fritted) Glass (up to ¾”)

Sand blasted/Sand Carved Glass unlimited designs

“Sculpted” Architectural Glass (7 patterns, all registered plus custom ones) “Onami” & “Seafoam” are the premium textures that are fabulous for table tops, counters, vanities, shower & tub enclosures, re-lites, door panels, windows, partitions, floor tiles (back painted), cabinet glass (Onami sandblasted is exquisite for door & cabinet glass-very ethereal)

STUDIO GLASS:

Kiln Fired Textured / Slumped Float Glass

Cast & Fused Glass: This Art is limitless. We have the capabilities to do the complete range from tiles to immense pieces for counters, walls, conference & dinning tables, floors, stairs & bridges, exterior features (including water features) The thickness can be whatever budget and time will allow (2” is considered standard). The “slab” size capability is dictated by the desired “look” we are to obtain. Currently 6’x12’ is our maximum production size

Carved Glass: This Art is also unlimited. We have studios that specialize in carving on architectural glass, others that start with heavy glasses & raw leaded crystal and carve dimensional pieces for lighting, sculpture (interior/exterior) & table bases.

Blown Glass (of all types including life like fish)

Molded Glass (Hot poured tiles)

MIRROR PRODUCTS:

Standard Clear & Colored Mirrors

Carved Mirror

Custom Silvered Glasses All the glass listed above, including the Studio Glass, can be silvered by one of our experts for dynamic effect on tables, counters, wall cladding, etc.

Mercury Antique Mirror (light to heavy)

Marbled/Antique Mirror

Venetian Mirrors (many selections)

Notes: We have many samples available for you and your unique projects, please feel free to ask for a sample. Many of our samples are one of a kind, we may ask that you return them if they are not in use, or when you are finished viewing them.