Restoring evolved into creating original, new homes with exceptional artistic talent and management skills.

Ted had an extensive building and general construction experience before the philosophy and psychology degrees at university, he has 50 years of intense, constant building since then.  At 22 years old, autodidact, he found an interest in architectural history and made a deep plunge into artistic reproduction of historic details and mould making.  This served the very serious historic restoration period in Mobile AL and in New Orleans. That lead to a natural transition to designing and building new After the first 15 trips to Paris (out of 40) about 34 years ago, he invented DAC-ART and now creates the best concrete homes in the world, as you can see at dac-art.com and buildmyconcretehome.com. His work is characterized by a drive for versatility, freedom from a particular style, and an insatiable thirst for innovation and creativity.