Roughly one decade ago, waterjet technology was first harnessed as a means of cutting hard-surface materials for architectural and design installations. The first designers to embrace the waterjet process soon began to execute designs that previously were impossible to achieve through the conventional methods prevalent at that time.
Suddenly, they discovered, any piece of stone, ceramic tile, glass, stainless steel or other surfacing material could be cut into a precise shape and assembled, with the same or dissimilar materials, into complex designs — not unlike jigsaw puzzles. And because the cutting process was (and remains) computer driven, identical designs could be cut and assembled repeatedly with exact precision.