good post EI ...You've answered something I've long wondered about.
It's easy to think USG is just a sheetrock manufacture (can you spell snooze).
But if specialty commercial building materials interest anyone as they do me go to the L&W Supply Corp website to check out the various products USG manufactures.
I was particularly interested in the ceiling products. If you want to check them out click on this link.
It was hard to pick a favorite but the curved designs kinda caught my eye :)
As a DIY weekend warrior builder of a never ending investment home remodel project I had always wondered where some of the specialty products came from you see in magazines of the more beautiful commercial building spaces...and since I had never seen them on countless trips gazing down the isleways of my local haunt known as Home Depot I had no idea who made them or where someone would go to get such items. Now I know!
USG is not just another boring sheetrock maker...that's like saying Michaelangelo was a just another 16th century house painter.