What a joy, our new traditional stone staircase in a new farm house in Devon !
Read MoreImpatient to see this new stone staircase for a new mansion down south of england. And this time no local stone like portland but a british Cradley limestone.
Read MoreTucked in south London, in the Surrey, Kent area, this Moleanos limestone staircase is for a new house. The work was an effortless cooperation with Tatham contractor.
Read MoreWe sometimes think of the natural stone industry as something outdated. Natural stone, like portland anstrude marble clispsham has always been at the centre of architecture.
Read MoreLook at this magnificent staircase made of natural limestone, in Manchester ! a great setting ! with a beautiful framing with this delicate stone column. How would you not want to have such product in your house ! Of course you could do it in portland stone or moleanos !
Read MoreYou might not see the difference from the pictures but from close it is very much noticeable.
Read MoreYes after nearly 10 years, we finally work some bath stone ! We try to avoid this limestone, as our crew is not to keen on its shell content. Maybe they are just fussy and are missing there homogenous portland stone or anstrude.
Read MoreWe prefer our stone stair to be load bearing but what a surprised to see this stair London after we installed it a while back.
Read MoreIt is in France this time that we have to look for some new inspiration in stone architecture. What a relief to see our noble material, sustainable, easy to build with (especially with all new lifting gear and mortar).
Read MoreJust to sum up the state of the use of stone in contemporary architecture.
2 projects recently finished in London, and both using stone as a cladding material, the Black cultural archive
Read MoreWe always think of innovation in stonemasonry to be in the building method or the engineering, but what of the repairs on damage stone or limestone, caen stone, anstrude stone, or marble.
Read MoreWe have decided to join the great pictures website www.houzz.co.uk This practical very visual website might help us to guide in a better way our customers. Our news set of pictures will allow our stone staircase cantilever or not to better promoted to. If we can carry on make our material more widely available this would be great !
Read MoreHere another picture of our stone staircase hanging from a wooden stud wall, it has been a challenge that we overcame easily. It was not again a project where you could provide reconstituted stone or wet cast concrete. The details at to be spot on and the fitting very finely tune. It is only with great precision that this can be done, craft and skills are the 2 pillars of stonemasonry ! Stone cantilever do not need to be palladian stair, or to be an ornate stone stair hanging from a solid wall.
Read MoreWe forgot sometimes how crucial is the transport of stone. Even more by looking in the past do we see the way the sites were organised.
Read MoreA nice surprised this morning reading the AJ online, http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/prs-black-cultural-archives-opens-doors/8666877.article?blocktitle=Big-pic&contentID=11152
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