Forty years of concrete, and a studio in San Francisco to teach it.

Buddy Rhodes has worked concrete since the 1980s. He trained in ceramics first, then founded Buddy Rhodes Studio and Buddy Rhodes Concrete Products, the decorative concrete company that helped define the category before it sold in 2012. The material behind this studio came out of that career: lightweight, fiber-reinforced, worked like clay, and simple enough to learn in an afternoon.

Concrete Craftworks is a partnership between Buddy and Dario Baldoni, president of Concrete Countertop Solutions, who brought the materials expertise and the resources to build a working studio around it. Buddy teaches and shapes the curriculum. CCS supplies the mix, forms and finishes that make the advanced tracks possible.

Between them they have spent their careers on either side of the same material, one at the trowel and one at the supply end. The studio is where they teach it as a craft rather than a building material.

Materials partner: Concrete Countertop Solutions