Stone supplier Marshalls is the main sponsor this year, as well as backer of one of these green gardens.
The first buyers included James Sinclair, a veteran stone supplier who bought 461 West 144th Street; he had worked on many Fifth Avenue mansions, as well as on the Washington Arch at Washington Square.
For instance, while one-and-a-quarter-inch-thick slabs of common granite like Ubatuba and Absolute Black can cost under $20 a square foot, not including fabrication and installation, according to Stone Source, a national stone supplier, top-grade white Calacatta and Statuary marble from Italy can run up to $150 per square foot.
In 1961 Isamu Noguchi, the celebrated Asian-American sculptor, moved there to be near stone suppliers and metal fabricators, into a building that would later became his museum.
Expo's granite is... well, granite -- but at $79 a square foot installed, it is competitive with that of specialty stone suppliers.
Randi Heine, a Bedford resident who has worked with a mason on her stone walls and other landscaping projects for two years, says Greenwich is so wall-obsessed that she calls it "the walled city". Stonemasons in Westchester County and in Fairfield County in Connecticut report waiting lists -- some as long as a year -- and stone suppliers have come to expect seasonal shortages.
Tip: Shop stone suppliers for a remnant backsplash slab you can grab at a bargain, and let the height of that slab determine the height of your cabinet or shelves.
One excellent source for images of stones is http://stone.network.com and A Web Gallery of Stone Buildings and their Building Stones (http://gly.uga.edu/railsback/BS-Main.html), as well as the web pages of building stone suppliers, especially useful if a community is lacking in stone buildings.
"I'm the only surviving specimen," said Harvey Watkins, Eaton Street's stone crab supplier, as we stood in the quiet little market, the crash and thrum of nearby Duval Street seemingly miles away.
Use a neutral pH non rinsing marble cleaning product available from specialty natural stone supplies supplier.
Over at Stone's produce supplier, McGrath family farms in Ventura county, the "in season" sign declares other specialties: tomatoes, corn, all beans (including edamame and lima), summer squash, peaches, plums and nectarines.
