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First and foremost, we would like to wish you and your family a splendid holiday season and wonderful 2015 full of health, fulfillment, prosperity and nothing but sheer bliss…

By now, you know we were an integral contributor of many architectural elements, fixtures, furnishings and objet d’art of the most expensive contemporary private residence built on spec ever. In case you forgot…here is a link to the CBS News story covering this property nationally from Saturday three weeks ago (it is about two minutes in length): http://www.cbsnews.com/news/selling-an-85-million-home-and-the-lifestyle-behind-it.

We are happy to let you know (in case it matters…) that the house recently sold following a bidding war between Jay-Z & Beyonce and Minecraft developer Markus “Notch” Persson who ultimately purchased the house at $70 million; here are some links from today covering the sale:

• GameSpot: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/minecraft-creator-notch-outbids-beyonce-and-jay-z-/1100-6424311
• Bloomberg News: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-18/beverly-hills-mansion-sells-for-70-million-to-minecraft-creator.html
• LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-markus-persson-20141218-story.html

Now that this project is over & done with (and since, quite honestly, there aren’t that many $85 million homes (or even $70 million for that matter…) being built on spec), we wanted to remind you that we are available, willing and able to assist you with extremely unique yet practical & durable fabrications of all types… Anything from all vertical & horizontal coverings, vanity counters/sinks, decorative objects, accessories and furnishings made from a variety of materials, including; polyurethane resin, resin-enforced fiberglass and faux cement. To see the variety of our fabrications firsthand, please visit www.casamedicidesigns.com or contact me for more information, samples or anything else needed.

With regards to the private residence mentioned above, for additional information about this property, here is a link to a recent LA Times’ Business Section cover story (http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-most-extreme-home-20140911-story.html) as well as Yahoo! News (https://homes.yahoo.com/blogs/spaces/-85-million-spec-house-for-billionaires-makowsky-155256091.html) and Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-22/purse-tycoon-s-85-million-beverly-hills-home-targets-ultra-rich.html).

In case you want to watch more video of the property, here is its promotional video: http://vimeo.com/102897742 - its dedicated website is www.1181hillcrest.com.

For this newly-built private residence, we fabricated a host of bespoke architectural elements, furnishings and other accessories, including our 9′ L x 6′ W x 2.5′ Ht opal silver bathtub, the 63″ Ht translucent blue resin & stainless steel hand grenade statue, an oversized 7-pill art installation, three 15′ L (10″ x 10″ x 10″) “u-channels” illuminated with LEDs beneath the skylight, a collection of decorated alcohol-branded rifles & shotguns, wall coverings, counter & bar tops and bar niches, among others…

We look forward to hearing from you should you have any current or upcoming project in mind that you feel we may be a contributing factor to & send you our very best wishes for a wonderful holiday season & 2015.

With our best regards.

Just when you thought you would never hear about it again (especially from us…), CBS Nightly News covered the $85 million contemporary mansion we were a part of creating. Here is a link to the story from last Saturday evening’s news broadcast on CBS (as the link is from YouTube, it of course starts with an ad): http://www.cbsnews.com/news/selling-an-85-million-home-and-the-lifestyle-behind-it.

For this newly-built private residence, we fabricated a host of bespoke architectural elements, furnishings and other accessories, including our 9′ L x 6′ W x 2.5′ Ht opal silver bathtub, the 63″ Ht translucent blue resin & stainless steel hand grenade statue, an oversized 7-pill art installation, three 15′ L (10″ x 10″ x 10″) “u-channels” illuminated with LEDs beneath the skylight, a collection of decorated alcohol-branded rifles & shotguns, wall coverings, counter & bar tops and bar niches, among others…

If you wish to see more video coverage of the house, here is a link to the promotional video actually created by its developer: http://vimeo.com/102897742.

Our very best wishes for a splendid holiday season.

It’s been making waves in numerous news outlets and Casa Medici is proud to have been a part of the gargantuan $85 million dollar Hollywood Hills house at 1181 Hillcrest up for sale.

For this newly-built private residence, we fabricated a host of bespoke architectural elements, furnishings and other accessories, including our 9′ L x 6′ W x 2.5′ Ht opal silver bathtub, the 63″ Ht translucent blue resin & stainless steel hand grenade statue, an oversized 7-pill art installation, three 15′ L (10″ x 10″ x 10″) “u-channels” illuminated with LEDs beneath the skylight, a collection of decorated alcohol-branded rifles & shotguns, wall coverings, counter & bar tops and bar niches, among others.

Check out some articles below on the World Wide Web about this amazing residence (PS-we hear Jay-Z and Beyonce are interested in buying it too!):

LA Times Business cover story:

http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-most-extreme-home-20140911-story.html

Yahoo! News Business:

https://homes.yahoo.com/blogs/spaces/-85-million-spec-house-for-billionaires-makowsky-155256091.html

LAist:

http://laist.com/2014/09/17/jay_and_bey_might_be_scoping_out_th.php#photo-1

1181 Hillcrest promotional video:

http://vimeo.com/102897742

We at Casa Medici just wanted to share with you a rather monumental achievement we have just completed – a colossal bathtub measuring 9’ L x 6’ W x 2.5’ Ht. emulating silver opal carved stone (in both color & texture) weighing in at a not too shabby 2,400 lbs. (I believe this is the biggest single-item resin pour ever made.)

We are very proud of our new baby and the meticulous process we undertook in materializing this client’s vision. As such, we have decided to provide you with seven images (listed below) with some imagery of the bathtub’s creation; from sculpting until its present & final state:

1. Very tough & brusque bathtub sculpture
2. Final sculpture of bathtub
3. Mold of bathtub in process
4. Bathtub engulfed by mold with black tooling
5. Bathtub poured (upside down)
6. Close-up of basin, off-center to right
7. With bottles placed on ledge (for sense of proportion)

Should you need any additional information regarding this bathtub or any of our other items, architectural elements & accessories or, of course, bespoke fabrications based on your own designs, please do not hesitate to contact me at any time at [email protected] or 818.402.9090.

As such, below are images of the following projects we just completed and newly-produced items we fabricated:

• Staples Center– VIP lounge & dining area at the San Manuel Club (images 1-3) – this project was done for AEG, the owners of Staples, under the helm of Gensler. For this renovation, we supplied varying sizes of our 3D concave Alligator pattern back-painted in metallic gray as tabletops, 3D convex-patterned fiberglass wall panels and striped resin partitions/privacy panels.
• Private contemporary residence in the Hollywood Hills (images 4 & 5) – for this uber contemporary party pad in the Hollywood Hills, we supplied bar tops & facades, garage door coverings, patterned wall paneling & wall art and several other architectural elements throughout the property.
• Herringbone Restaurant at The Mondrian (images 6 & 7) – for the just-opened Herringbone Restaurant (replacing Asia de Cuba) at The Mondrian Hotel, we supplied a host of planters acting both as a “barricade” of sorts and base for the arboreal “arches” depicted as well as a host of decorative accessories & fixtures.
• “St. Germain” bathtub (image 8) – our newly-designed, late 19^th century Parisian-inspired “St. Germain” bathtub, shown fabricated as an opaque white marble emulation & coated in satin.
• Resin puzzle sculpture & dyes on acrylic panels (images 9 & 10) – these two images depict two items from our ever-expanding art & decorative product lines. The first is of a resin puzzle sculpture resting in a raw wooden base and the final image is a new fabrication we developed recently - abstract dyes on back-painted acrylic panels. This item has been specifically developed for the hospitality industry as a fresh & unique (yet extremely inexpensive and durable) decorative item available either as a wall panel or framed art.

Once again, if anything is needed from our end in terms of more information about our products, materials or fabrication capabilities, any samples (whether standard or bespoke tailor-made to a specific design or project) or anything else, just let us know.

Due to increased sales, as of April 2011, Casa Medici will be relocating its production facilities to a new, larger location to accommodate increased demand. The location will be formalized in a press release in March, and Erik Davila, VP of Operations & Production, has refined production processes through technology acquisitions to optimize output of new and established product lines. Davila estimates that when everything is in place the innovations are anticipated to double Casa Medici’s production capacity.