I had my back patio and pool décor installed while my wife was caring for her parents in Arizona. She had been away for months as her mother’s health deteriorated. It was only a coincidence that her mother went home ten days before her birthday. My children and I flew in; staying for the funeral and helping her make the arrangements. It was down to the end of the project with another week of expected work, with this devastating circumstance and her birthday coming up I asked Dante Conto (owner and creative master), man to man, husband to husband, if there was any way possible he could have this project finished earlier than we had agreed. We flew in the day before her birthday and if only for that moment my wife was the happiest woman in the world. Making that happen was not just business, it was compassion, empathy and old school values. Italian cast stone is more than stone casting, its business done the way our fathers used to.
