YOUR SPRING SKINCARE ROUNDUP

The latest 7 products you need to add to your routine!

Spring is on the way—hurrah! The skies are definitely more blue, flowers are poking their heads out of garden borders, lambs are gamboling across rolling green

fields, and so on and so on! But that’s not what we care about—we care about sun

and warmth, and exposing our winter-pale skin to the elements once more. We’ve

rounded up the top skincare products to invest in this season, whether you’re after a

moisturizer for dry skin, a superb serum or a rejuvenating eye cream.

#1

YSL Beaut Pure Shot Night Re oot Re urfaci g Serum Think of the YSL Beauty Pure Shots Night Reboot Resurfacing Serum as a shot of espresso for your skin. It contains glycolic acid to exfoliate away dead skin cells and moonlight cactus flower to boost your skin's natural radiance, so you look super awake the next morning.

Avè e Eau Therma e Refre hi g E e Co tour Care Rehydrate and brighten your eye area with Avène's Eau Thermale Refreshing Eye Contour Care eye cream, which is made of thermal spring water, vitamin E, and raspberry extract. If you're looking to reduce the appearance of any puffiness, dark circles and crow's feet, this targets all three. #2

Roda + Fie d Recharge Detox Ma k We love the Rodan + Fields Recharge Detox Mask when our skin is in need of a major reset. It’s made with charcoal and volcanic sand to draw out dirt, debris and makeup that cause breakouts. Plus, it's got mango seed butter, coconut and avocado oil, so your skin won’t totally dry out during the purge. #4 #3

C a Ski care Pacific Moi turizer It’s rare for a product to truly be suitable for all skin types, but the Cyan Skincare Pacific Moisturizer comes pretty darned close. It contains vitamins C, B and E to reduce inflammation and protect the skin's natural barrier. It's also got a blend of gorgonian extract and neptune kelp to hydrate and soothe your skin.

E emi Su erfood Cica Ca m H dratio Juice If you're looking for something to quench super-dry skin, turn to the Elemis Superfood Cica Calm Hydration Juice. This prebiotic gel moisturizer uses a proprietary ingredient called Biotransformed Cica, an antioxidant-rich herb that soothes and heals any irritation, to calm and nourish the skin. #5

#6

Her ivore Pri m 20% AHA + 5% BHA Exfo iati g G ow Facia Give your skin an at-home facial with Herbivore's latest concoction, made from 20 percent exfoliating alpha-hydroxy acids and 5 percent clarifying beta hydroxy acids. It's also formulated with aloe for a cooling, hydrating finish. Use once weekly.

Pixi Co age To ic The makers of beloved Pixi Glow Tonic have created a new toner formulated with collagen. Expect the same radiant results as its sister toner, but with an extra boost of elasticity and plumping. #7

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MODERN DESIGN TRANSFORMED

Tale from Moderni m Wee

Franklin Window and Door owners, Scott & Cori Brown, had the pleasure of experiencing “Modernism Week” this past month in Palm Springs, California. Modernism Week features midcentury modern architecture and interior design centered around modern design.

Modern design and contemporary architecture are transforming the architectural and building industry. Architects are continually designing more complex homes and buildings that stretch the limits of window and door design focusing on oversized glass openings.

Marvin Windows and Doors VP and Design Expert, Christine Marvin, spoke to a group of Modernism Enthusiasts at the Axiom Turkle House, which features Marvin Windows and Doors including liftand-slide doors that pocket into the wall. Christine was joined by homeowner and designer Joel Turkel to speak to the attendees about the collaborative process of creating the modern design of the Turkel Axiom House, which incorporates an abundance of natural light as well as a space designed to blend seamlessly the indoor to outdoor spaces.

Scott and Cori Brown are passionate about the movement towards larger expanses of glass but also understand the complexity of this building design. As a result, they spend considerable time learning and collaborating with other industry professionals to learn best practices to ensure all aspects from structural support to glass thickness and deflection

rates are accounted for and factored into the design of the project. Scott states, “These are details that are imperative to consider when building structures with large expanses of glass. As architects are specifying larger glass units, we have had to source glass from Europe, as they can produce larger pieces of glass with less deflection than here in the states.”

It wasn’t all work and no play, though. Scott and Cori were able to enjoy a poolside party at the Mesa Modern House, which is a newly built home that deviated from the traditional Midcentury Modern architecture prevalent all over Palm Springs to Contemporary Architecture and Design.

Check out FranklinWindowAndDoor.com for more great pictures from Modernism Week 2020 from Palm Springs, California.

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STONE UNBOUND

Todd Ke chum of Vic ory Surface

Walk into the front office of Victory Surfaces (5720 Kopetsky Drive, Indianapolis) and you’ll see right away that stone isn’t just for countertops anymore. There you’ll find a mini showroom of terrazzo side chairs and matching terrazzo coffee table, another coffee table with steel base and polished stone top, and even a concrete boardroom table, just to get the imagination flowing. “People are used to seeing terrazzo in flooring,” Todd says. “But it’s begun to take on a life of its own in the past few years.” (Typing “terrazzo” into your Instagram search engine yields 309K posts.) He goes on to show me a rollaway kitchen cart, with a stainlesssteel base and concrete surface. “It’s really unique, but very contemporary—this surface is concrete, but you could do marble or terrazzo or other stone—we can make the same furniture pieces out of multiple mediums,” he tells me. “You can make just about anything happen with stone.”

One look at the furniture in this small space and you’ll understand that stonework has the potential to surpass its traditional roles, but spend twenty minutes talking to Todd Ketchum, President of Victory Surfaces, and you’ll find that stonework’s only limit is that of a designer’s or homeowner’s imagination. In fact, I discovered through my time spent with Todd Ketchum in Victory Surface’s workshop, that stonework may best be conceived of as a fine combination of art and science, paired perfectly to craft the practical, sometimes whimsical, but always the highest quality of creations.

THE ART OF WORKING WITH STONE Todd got his start in stone, specifically terrazzo, in 1979 in the shipyards of Southern California. In the early 80s, after marrying his wife, a native of Indiana, the two made the move to the Hoosier State, and right away, Todd found his footing in the local terrazzo business, working for Santarossa Mosaic and Tile, a fixture in the Indianapolis community since 1924. “I spent 29 years with Santarossa, starting as a terrazzo worker out in the field, to becoming a part owner and president and CEO by the time I left,” Todd tells me. At the beginning of 2015, Todd decided to start a new company doing stone and terrazzo, and Gary Edwards, a close acquaintance, wanted to be involved. Together they founded Victory Surfaces, and Todd became its president, with Gary as its owner. Since then, Todd has made countless trips to Italy, Brazil, and other epicenters of stone sourcing, to hand-select the materials he wants to bring to central Indiana’s designers, and he has overseen hundreds of custom stonework designs for residential and commercial projects around Indiana and the surrounding region.

Todd tells me that he owes much of his inspiration in stonework design to the artistic pursuits of those he grew up with. “I’m the only one in my family who

isn’t technically an artist,” he says. “I have one sister who works in murals, and another sister who creates art through wood burning and pencil drawings.” His grandfather started a stained-glass business in the 1940s, John Wallis and Associates Stained Glass, and his family is still active in the artistic trade. “One of my brothers was an apprentice to my grandfather early on, and my aunt still runs the studio to this day,” he explains. Todd goes on to share a bit about his mother and the part she played in inspiring his work. “My mother raised six children and then went to school, graduating with a degree in interior architecture,” he says. “She and a partner established an interior design company and worked in high-end homes and businesses in LA and California’s coastal areas.” So never mind Todd’s claim that he’s not an artist—he still brings an artist’s eye and sensibility to the work he and his artisan employees undertake.

STORIES WAITING TO BE TOLD As we begin our walk-through of the warehouse and workshop, Todd starts by explaining that much of the work coming out of his shop is geared towards the living needs of the present generation. “We do a lot of freestanding pieces,” he says. “Our philosophy is that

A Parade of Porcelain Think of porcelain, and you think of tiles, dishware, and yes, the “porcelain throne.” But as with terrazzo, demand for porcelain is changing. “Porcelain has become extremely popular,” Todd says. “We can make kitchen shelving out of it, countertops, or wall pieces. We just completed a whole master bath out of porcelain—that makes it maintenance free, but it looks like natural stone in the walls, without joints—no more little, individual tiles.”

A Frenzy of Terrazzo Anyone with a pulse on current design trends knows that terrazzo is extremely desirable in ways far surpassing its traditional purpose in flooring. For the uninitiated, terrazzo is a composite material consisting of chips of marble, granite, quartz, glass or other materials—in any color—poured in place or prefabricated, for use in flooring, walls, countertops, and countless custom products. Chances are, you’ve seen it more than you realize, in hospitals, airports, schools, and now homes. Todd, true to his belief that there are no limits to a stone’s potential, decided to have his own way with the trendy material. “I’d always wanted to see a chair made from terrazzo,” he says. “In all my travels, I’d never seen one.” And so he built one. You can find two today in the Victory Surfaces front office.

stone can be the material for any piece of furniture or housing fixture you can think of.” In other words, Todd and his stoneworkers create standalone pieces that can be mixed and matched like any other type of furniture. “We want our residential clients to be able to pick up and take them with them if they move,” he says. “For example we built a fireplace for a home, even though the residents knew they would eventually move. When that time came, we designed a new freestanding piece to remain in the home, and they took their fireplace with them.”

Next, he leads me over to an approximately 6-foot by 8-foot rectangle, composed of over 100 numbered square tile holders. “Right now we have a client doing a feature wall in one of their rooms,” he explains. “We do layouts with multiple colors of tile, they let us know what they like and what they want to change, and we’ll rearrange the tiles, put down a whole different pattern, until they’re happy with the combination. Then we’ll pack it all up and put in their house.” Astounded by the time this must consume, undertaking this design project completely by hand, I ask if there’s an online platform that could accomplish the same thing. “Even with the creative online platforms available now, the color online isn’t reliable,” he tells me, and shows me a printed example of a similar backsplash that doesn’t begin to do justice to the actual color of the tiles in front of me. The sheer inventory of diverse stones—marbles, granites, quartzite, soapstone, sandstone, lapis lazuli, and so forth—available in the Victory Surfaces warehouse could easily send the uninitiated into a freefall of imaginative possibility. Todd explains that part of a designer’s role is to help a homeowner let go of 80% of what they like in order to focus on what will really work in a space. As he leads me through rows and rows of jaw-dropping stone slabs, I begin to understand stone’s ability to tell stories, playing witness to evolutionary and cataclysmic geological events. He points to one particular slab of granite. “This is considered to be granite,” he says, “but you can tell by looking at it that the rock went through a metamorphic event during its creation.” Todd explains that the longer it takes for granite to harden, the larger the crystals within it start to grow—precisely the conditions that led to the dramatic patterning within this slab. We take a few more steps, and my eyes catch a dark and imposing slab of stone with bright white conical markings scattered throughout. “These are fossils embedded within the stone,” Todd tells me. “This piece of stone literally captures eons of the earth’s history.”

With the inherent natural beauty that stone carries, even before human hands take hold of it, many clients choose to incorporate stone as art within their homes or businesses. Todd explains that some stones are naturally translucent—most onyx and many quartzites—but that any stone, if sliced thinly enough, can be backlit to stunning effect. “We can take the stone, put it on glass and backlight it,” he says. “By day you have a beautiful piece of stone artwork, and at night you have a soft nightlight.”

TEAM EARTH – TEAM VICTORY Todd’s knowledge of the stonework trade is immensely evident, but when I acknowledge his expertise, he’s quick to emphasize that Victory Surfaces is the greater sum of its parts—the talent the company’s artisan workers bring to their craft, and in a more primal way, from the earth itself and its abundant natural resources. “The earth is one big rock, and depending on where we cut into the earth, we’re going to find variations in the same stone,” he says. “We always have one of the finest selections of white marble, Carrara marble, and we get all the varieties from the same mountain region in Italy. At the top of the mountain, you get the Calcutta Gold marble, used in statuary, but go deeper into the rock, and the patterns change, the look changes.”

And while Todd may be at the helm of the operation, it’s Victory’s 60+ artisan stoneworkers that undertake the lion’s share of the fine creations that the workshop produces. Todd’s especially proud to have his son, also named Todd, working with him at Victory, as well as his son-inlaw Chip Friend. “Both have been very supportive and instrumental in my career, and both worked for Santarossa as well,” he says. “I also owe immense thanks to my colleagues Jim Potts and Gary Wimmer, who have worked with me since the beginning here.”

If this tour through Victory Surfaces warehouse and workshop has your imagination running wild, embrace the thrill! Visit them online and check out the incredible fixtures, unique pieces of furniture, and artistic stone renderings that the workshop has formed from these glorious natural resources. Let your imagination have its way—then schedule an appointment with a designer to help make sense of it all.