Apart from all our competitors throughout the world when you have made the decision to work with our Advent Design you gain the benefit of our founder's more than thirty years of experience sourcing from superior stone quarries from all over the world.  All Advent custom stone baths, stone bath tubs and stone basins are then hand carved by highly skilled stone masters, artisans in this specialized field.  Ultimately this provides you with a lifetime of bathing pleasure and artistic beauty for the home or spa.

But there's much more.  At Advent Design we pride ourselves in the personal service you can expect and deserve.  From your initial consultation with and Advent Design team stone specialist to collaboration with your architect, designer and custom home builder, we provide the necessary guidance and necessary technical support from delivery to the final installation of your custom designed stone bath, stone tub or stone basin to ensure a perfect result every time. 

Choosing the right color stone is also vitally important, for example, high atop the Grand Teton range in Jackson, Wyoming we worked carefully with a custom home builder to select a block of stone which revealed just the right tones of golden brown and hues of red and stone colors that no one could name so that from the enormous picture window of this bathroom, while taking a leisurely bath and relaxing in the spa you feel a sense of harmony with nature.  The house of this custom stone bath is built of stone and timber from the forests immediately surrounding the home and the result of our hard work with this builder is truly spectacular. 

Our stone master lives and breaths day and night for weeks and weeks the process of creating an Advent functional work of art otherwise known as an Advent Stone Custom Stone Bath.  He must feel good and confident in how the stone conforms to his hand tools as he labors.

Although some electric sanding tools are used in the process of making a stone  bath, we still rely upon the art more than the science to create a superior stone bath in terms of its' beauty.  Moreover, all stone is porous and therefore all stone needs filling and it takes a trained eye to mix the very special formula of epoxy and resins and finely ground stone dust from the same block of stone and to fill the small crevices and small pores on the surfaces with a color mixture which enhances the natural beauty of the entire piece.  This is a skill only attained from many years of experience of our master carvers.

We commission our stone masters to carve shape and form nature's greatness into magnificent works of art.  As always, we select our sources and carefully design these luxury baths with a single focus; to provide our clients the opportunity to enjoy a lifetime of luxury bathing pleasure and artistic beauty.  Our stone masters carve each piece with meticulous care and patience so that each Advent Design custom bath turns the ordinary bathing experience into the ultimate spa bathing experience.

Creating a solid stone soaking custom bath masterpiece requires the knowledge and wisdom from many years experience, especially for making custom stone baths.  Some stone used for Advent custom stone baths, stone tubs and stone basins comes from Tuscany, Italy.  Some Advent custom stone baths are made from stone which is excavated from the mountains of Carrara, Italy.  Sometimes we must go where the desert meets the mountains in Turkey to select the right kind of stone.  The stone must have natural characteristics suitable for carving.  These characteristics must include natural crystallization; a particular degree of mohs hardness; a relatively low porosity and a mineral content that when analyzed reveals that the 7 or 8 ton block which we excavate will withstand the 300 to 400 hundred hours needed to chisel and refine into a truly magnificent and aesthetically beautiful custom stone bath by Advent Design. 

At Advent Design we must always be very thoughtful in choosing the right stone to create our magnificent custom baths, tubs and basins.  For example, limestone is the result of millions of years of sea shells and bones of sea creatures settling on the ocean floor and is appropriately called a sedimentary stone.  The gathering or collecting of the "sediment" continued for a period of 50 million years and ended between 200 and 300 million years ago.  The calcium in the shells and bones combined with the carbon dioxide in the water formed calcium carbonate, the basic mineral component of all limestone and marble. 

Advent Design custom baths carved from limestone results in a custom bath that is often monochromatic in color and is desired by those seeking a minimalist form of purity in interior design bathrooms for the luxury bath and spa. 

Advent Design has relied heavily upon the good and great visions of the Italians for its magnificent Advent Stone custom stone bath creations.  For more than thirty years Advent Design's founder has been traveling to Italy to gain inspiration and knowledge of this great culture.  In fact, he lived in Italy for more than ten years.  

Luciam the second century Greek rhetorician described Italy as paradise.  The buildings of Italy span almost 3,000 years drawing influences from a wide variety of sources.  Etruscan and Roman buildings borrowed heavily from ancient Greece and in later centuries, Norman, Arabic and Byzantine styles colored Italy's Romanesque and gothic architecture.  Anywhere you turn while in Italy your eye will discover the art and science of magnificent design. 

If you give the Italians a problem to solve they are proficient to resolve it.  As part of their unique character as a culture the Italians have the inherent carefree and free thinking characteristic in their personality to freely dream of new ways to interpret ideas.  A fundamental outcome of this inherent characteristic can be easily recognized in their art, architecture and creative design workmanship as a culture. 

Would you like to bejewel your bathroom with a masterwork of art and design?  At Advent Design we create exclusive baths carved from solid blocks of stone including, travertine, marble, basalt and limestone for private residencies all over the world.  Advent Design has assembled a team of experts to create true and actual works of art which will transform a relaxing bath into an experience of holistic vanity.  But behind so much of what we do are the great minds of the Italians and their culture. 

Internationally renowned for its' marble quarries we often go to Carrara in search of blocks of stone to create Advent hand carved solid stone baths.  Carrara's almost flawless white stone has been prized for centuries by famous sculptors for Michelangelo to Henry Moore (the stone from Michelangelo's David came from Carrara.  This regions' three hundred or more quarries date back to Roman times making this one of the oldest industrial sites in continuous use in the world. 

Advent Design goes to many of the cities marble-sawing mills and stone carvers workshops in search of second and third generation stone masters whom understand how to work the marble in quartz in ways that most of the world's cultures could never understand.  For example, if you look at Advent Design's model Siena round stone bath it is an object of great beauty and exemplifies an Italian stone master's eye to create detail and near perfection in the art of creating a truly magnificent Advent Design stone bath.

We have read that hot stone therapy also improves lymph drainage, encouraging the discharge of toxins from the system.  And as we all have known in the most recent 25 years holistic medicines and therefore holistic healing has become widely recognized as a genuine effective tool in improving one's health.  In fact, therapeutic massage has shown great efficacy in relieving pain, muscle tightness and sleep disorders, and stress related disturbances.

At Advent Design we know of a client who has discovered the unique benefits of utilizing an Advent Design stone bath for stone therapy as follows.  Fill an Advent Design stone bath with hot water and let the Advent stone tub remain filled with this hot water, let the stone steep, drain the stone tub, and then climb in and plaster your body to the surface.  This is natural stone therapy!

Remember, our stone baths are from the earth - there is nothing more greatly rewarding than a bathing experience in an Advent Design stone bath, in fact, we state quite clearly in all of our written correspondence that an Advent Design bath is "therapy for the body and soul and enjoyment for a lifetime".

Nowadays more and more occupations require people in front of computers for extended periods of time and adhere to minute by minute schedules.  People are thus seeking time and space for healing.  Trust us to tell you bathing in an Advent Design stone bath original will give you some of what we all need genuine relaxation for a healthier lifestyle. 

Travertine is a stone formed in areas in which percolating water bubbled through the sedimentary deposit.  This "bubbling dynamic" in the formation of this type of stone causes travertine's to have holes throughout their structure.  This enhances the visual beauty of this type of rock to the naked eye. 

Let Advent design a luxurious custom travrtine stone bath for your bath and spa.

Basalt is igneous rock which is formed when rock or magna cools and solidifies with or without crystallization either below the surface or on the surface.  This magna can be derived from partial melt of preexisting rocks in either the earth's mantel or crust.   Basalt is usually fined grained due to rapid cooling of lava on the earth's surface. 

The basalt stone we use at Advent Design to create these luxurious basalt baths in fact is fine grained.  For example, the crustal portions of oceanic tectonic plates are composed predominately of basalt which is produced from upwelling peridotite in the mantel below ocean ridges.  Gaius Plinius Secundus better know as Pliny Velder who lived in 79AD was an ancient author, natural philosopher and military commander of importance who wrote a book named Naturalis Historia and in that book he referred to basalt stone which is said to have had an Ethiopian origin as a word meaning black stone.  

As one can imagine Advent Design is taking the earth's natural resource and utilizing nautral stone in the process of shaping the experience of interior design space.  Advent Design stone baths should not be considered interior decoration but rather transforming nature's greatness into functional works of art.

Think green!

Much of Luster's quarter century in the mainstream stone and ceramic industry has been spent sourcing products throughout the world from South America, Europe and Asia. "Along the way" he says, "I realized the need for pieces that were outside the ordinary and began a search for exquisite stone and the artisans who could carve it into magnificent pieces of functional art for the home and spa." The search took him to the interior of Brazil to the Peruvian Andes, the Italian Alps to Turkey and India, and as far east as Malaysia.

Even as Luster found the world's best artisans and put them together with the superb examples of marble, travertine, granite, basalt and limestone that he sourced, he knew the journey wasn't over. "The nature of the business is that you can never stand still," explains Luster.

Luster enthuses. "Often we create pieces that are customized to each client and to each piece of stone."

Advent Design continuously communicates with architects and designers serving the luxury community to understand its markets. Part of the firm's mission is to remain unique and offer items rarely, if ever, seen in the marketplace for a discerning clientele that demands unparalleled service and exclusivity.
 
"One of the toughest challenges is finding just the right piece of stone," explains Luster. "To custom carve a stone bath, we have the stone mined from a quarry, and with a sold block weighing five-to-six-tons we begin the process of cutting and carving. Only after we have invested heavily can we see the true colors of the block of stone as it is transformed into a bath. In fact, there are times when we have completed a significant portion of carving and must abandon the block of stone altogether and start again."

Advent stone sinks are created from select pieces of stone to ensure the highest quality finished product possible. The stone materials have been mined from numerous parts of the world, then meticulously carved and refined to perfection. The surface finishes are either honed, which results in a non-reflective smooth matte finish- typical of sinks carved from travertine and limestone, or polished-which reveals a shiny reflective finish. The polished finish is typical of sinks carved from marble and travertine, stones that have been crystallized (melted and re-cooled). The sink models are inspired by a combination of creative designs that fit the natural variation of color in a particular stone.

"In this luxury end of the market," says Luster, "I can't stress enough how important it is to constantly develop and nurture great sources. I often go personally to select blocks of stone and I've been known to travel for a long weekend to Europe or South America to check the progress and details of a stone piece before it is completed and shipped, just to be sure it's perfect for our demanding clientele." 

We select our sources and carefully design these magnificent luxury products with a single focus to provide our clients the opportunity to be surrounded by the natural allure of stone and simultaneously enjoy a lifetime of functional artistic beauty. In fact most of the products are quite simply, works of art in their own right.

With creative innovation and ambition we work closely with each client and project, from start to completion.

Moreover, the company's founder personally travels throughout most of the free world not only to discover these unique products, but also to oversee the quality of workmanship to ensure each client's dreams are fully realized.

Although the world seems to get smaller all the time as technology advances, nothing replaces the need and human effort necessary in traveling great distances to source these unique and special carved stone works of art.

From deep in the interior of Brazil to the Peruvian Andes, the Italian Alps to Turkey, India, and as far East as Malaysia. we are committed to uncovering great stone artisans and collaborating with them.

We seek to design and create and deliver to our customers worldwide, aesthetically beautiful and unique items rarely seen in the marketplace, and to continuously secure the advent of new, luxurious pieces. If you can dream it, we can create it.