Armen Arto Alajian

#Love = #forgiving the #other before the other #appologizes

@studioconover @ARTObrick Yeah, that's right!

@ARTObrick 60 years young

Celebrating 60 years!! Feeling lots of Irish luck 🍀 and gratitude. #Artobrick60years

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Pick a color! BrickIt 🧱

our advocacy group works w/ 35-40 commercial property owners in Altadena--at the town center--to help them understand rebuilding options and giving them tools to lead their redevlopment. Come hear about early visioning efforts in Palisades, Malibu & Altadena. Registeration ⬇️

The Tile House Boise is loving our new Artazzo bricks. BrickIt #WallTileWednesday

@8334THEUCS Team Sport. Thank you.

@themfg That is awesome ! Congrats on a great achievement

Sixty years of Arto celebrated on St. Patrick's Day. St. Patrick's Day was my father's birthday & Why we picked it as our founding date. I'm a bit of a romantic. My father's name was Arto. The Company carries his name Arto was Born in Egypt. His father — my great-grandfather — was an orphan from Armenia. Arto left Egypt with almost nothing, just a suitcase. Egypt first. Then Lebanon, same thing; just a suitcase. He made it to the United States in the 1950's. Checked out New York — didn't feel right. Houston — didn't feel right either. He arrived in Los Angeles late in the 1950's and fell in love with everything here. He made it his home. He started as a Good Humor Man (the ice cream man) Then the milkman — delivering to restaurants and homes all over the city. In the evenings, he went to Aviation Mechanics School. On his route, he met an artist, not my mother. She made ceramic murals & Arto made thin brick veneer to surround them. He saw something, his creative mastery took over. Arto offered tile to the restaurants and homes he visited. Side hustle at first. Then All In. My parents divorced when I was ten, there were hard years for him. I started working for him at nineteen, while I was still in college. I didn't make it any easier. We parted ways more than once. The business had many iterations: Clay brick and installation to start. Then concrete products alongside the clay. Then manufacturing only — no more installation. That was a big move. We grew. We were pushed out of LA — not our choice — to Gardena. Not quite with only a suitcase, but close. When we got to Gardena, we really did grow. We had room. My brother Varoujan (Vod) — joined us not long after. 2008 was hard. My father got ill. The economy collapsed. We woke up in '09 and said, "Oh my." I remember one Friday not knowing if I could make payroll. But it seems we have. Vod and I are the second generation. We're working on the third. We may fail. But a third generation of Alajians at ARTO is a noble goal. When I think about the future I tell people there are two time frames I hold at once: Paying the bills on Friday AND a hundred years from now. Here's to at least one more Friday

Celebrating 60 years!! Feeling lots of Irish luck 🍀 and gratitude. #Artobrick60years

@JulieChangRE @CarolWalshReal1 Carol when you head home stop in.

Carol wants yall to know do not mess with her

@LukeHosey Thank you. The goal is to string a bunch Fridays together #TileEverything

@themfg Nice story. Keep up the good work. Tile everything!

@VE_tileandstone Pronounced ?

A new brand emerges… get ready for your daughters to ask for a Chagee Tea Late! Supplied a bit of tile for the first few stores hitting California.

@Seanfrank 6 -7

Anyone with more money than me is evil. Anyone with less is lazy.

@mbertulli We use large tarps

I love spam.

#TileEverything Just saw this on my Insta Feed (@ARTObrick in 2c Magnolia Blend) via evonfiginteriors.com

This little thing will save me at least an hour a month. I look too often for time zones. In that damn drop-down @GoogleWorkspace thank you !

@AllisonEdenArt Service?

Happy St. Patrick’s Day ☘️!!! We recently created this custom themed (with much symbolism) glass mosaic backsplash for a new television show - Let me know when you see it !!! So excited- still get a thrill when people ask if we made the Kardashian/Jenner backsplash- the magic of television. Anyone else notice that Hollywood is taking over NYC ? My whole Brooklyn neighborhood is becoming studio space !!! So #MadeInBrooklyn - right next to #Hollywood #interiordesign #setdesign #tiledesign

@k_thos @JMGregorchuk Having an 60th anniversary on Saturday. Walk the factory and showroom.

@JMGregorchuk check out @themfg arto brick here in southbay. old firm spec'd for a house on mulholland. we are using it a little modern. i also used it for a house project i did last year.

Can you build a brick home and meet CA energy requirements?

@VE_tileandstone @Dirtdog Yes Sir. The tile is @ARTObrick , a lot of it there

@themfg @Dirtdog Have you ever worked on a project there, Armen? 😂😂

Is this the best airport in America? Santa Barbara, CA