This class is designed to give each student a gloves-on experience that now includes an extra day to cover templating and installation in detail, offering students an opportunity to create an actual countertop to be installed in place on Day 3. You will design, template, build a mold, measure, mix and color concrete to fill the mold, de-mold, grind and polish the countertop, and install it in place at Buddy Rhodes’ new San Francisco headquarters.

Fabric-forming is the future of concrete, now. It is an amazing method that can be employed in the creation of custom sinks, planters, wall panels, fireplace surrounds, etc. There is much rationale backing fabric as the optimal material for creating forms, with the primary being that it creates a natural shape, a form that cannot be created any other way.

Walls support, strengthen, define and defend; fabric-formed walls do this while looking fabulous. Function should not suffer due to form, and with fabric it doesn’t have to. No longer are concrete walls flat, static surfaces- they can have energy, shape, and life. Fabric offers naturally occurring organic formations that would be unimaginable using conventional methods.

No one has taught GFRC longer than Gore Design Co.; with experience comes insights, tips and tricks that you will not learn anywhere else. This class is all about the fundamentals of GFRC (glass-fiber reinforced concrete). GFRC is what we have used exclusively for many years to create our high-end sinks, countertops and furniture pieces. Enroll today to expand your concrete skill-set!

This workshop will provide you with all of the skills necessary to design, fabricate, seal & install concrete countertops. We will use materials that are readily available and methods virtually anybody can use without special machinery.

This is our first FLOW Fabric-Forming Workshop! You must be asking yourself, what precisely is FLOW Fabric-Forming, and how does it differ from the 3.5 day Fabric-Forming + GFRC Workshop?

FLOW Fabric-Forming is a term I coined for creating pieces where the finished product is draping, elegant and unconfined. The fabric is not stretched taught, as in the 3.5 day Fabric-Forming Workshop; instead, the fabric is loose and conveys much more motion and energy. This level of fabric-forming is at the forefront of upscale pre-cast concrete. It’s uses are infinite – sinks, wall panels, furniture, planters, and the list goes on.

No one has taught GFRC longer than Gore Design Co.; with experience comes insights, tips and tricks that you will not learn anywhere else. This class is all about the fundamentals of GFRC (glass-fiber reinforced concrete). GFRC is what we have used exclusively for many years to create our high-end sinks, countertops and furniture pieces. Enroll today to expand your concrete skill-set!

Fabric-forming is the future of concrete, now. It is an amazing method that can be employed in the creation of custom sinks, planters, wall panels, fireplace surrounds, etc. There is much rationale backing fabric as the optimal material for creating forms, with the primary being that it creates a natural shape, a form that cannot be created any other way.

No one has taught GFRC longer than Gore Design Co.; with experience comes insights, tips and tricks that you will not learn anywhere else. This class is all about the fundamentals of GFRC (glass-fiber reinforced concrete). GFRC is what we have used exclusively for many years to create our high-end sinks, countertops and furniture pieces. Enroll today to expand your concrete skill-set!