Look 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 MoreWith so much work on cantilever staircases and new build, we have to deliver on time our superb natural limestone product from, made of portland or marble.
Read MoreWhen we look back, it is very proud that we look back, 64 flight, cantilever staircases, post tensioned, reinforced, with supporting wall, made of bricks, concrete, wood !
Read MoreWe have just completed our first staircase on a horse shoe set out and what a beauty. ! the stone landing, load bearing, linking the 2 stair is just so thin and delicately fitted on the steps. ! The all cantilever shape look like some embracing arm made of natural limestone...
Read MoreA normal thursday at the www.stonemasonrycompany.co.uk. We are actively working in central London and Kent. The 3 projects are being developed by our now designers based in Leicester.
Read MoreHow start the new ! well you can do like us, a challenging hanging staircase with metal stringer on the stairwell size, a heated steps staircase, a horse shoe stone staircase with cantilever stone steps.
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 More43 steps, 2flights ! 1 bespoke gantry installed in 3 weeks on site ! These are the critical numbers for the construction of this staircase in the heart of Kensington !
Read MoreAfter awaiting nearly a year to have access granted to this magnificient stone staircase we fitted a while back. The central core of the house, it is a spiral staircase made of portland on 7 floors. more that 3 months on site the behemoth have made us more aware of scheduling work in central London, delivery next to one of the busiest street of London.
Read MoreThere is a great pictures of one of our favorite Architect, stone lover, Luytens. What ever he designed, balance and harmony were included !
Read MoreIt is all very well the cmc machine, put you can not beat the human touch. The fingers like butterflies, moving from one leaf to the other. How can the craft and skill of the human can be forgotten and deemed to slow ! The natural material, stone marble, portland stone caen stone, carrara marble need the knowledge and love of the craftsman. The client is always keen on having the beauty of sometimes irregularity of the hand. Let’s carry on our workforce all over the world to cut some beautifull steps for our cantilever stair, staircases. The finely cut treads, bull nose and astragal !
Read MoreIt is not often described as this, but a workshop is a very living and noisy place. Pictures do not convey all the atmosphere of a stone workshop. The noise of the machine the hammer pneumatic or manual hitting the metal chisels.
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 MoreSometimes it is a great trick play to the eye, the sort of magic trick, the different direction …. with this great concrete steps, which would be even more beautiful in marble or limestone. imagine a fine anstrude or clipsham. I was really amazed by the simplicity of the disposition of the treads, such a simple idea. I which some of the designer we work with would be more adventurous.
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 MoreUnfortunately unknown photographer for this superb refurbishment in central London. The original cantilever staircase, with portland steps, is a great feature, no quarter landing, just a snake of a stair. Winding from Ground floor to the 2 nd floor. Note the tall handrail ! 1200 mm cast spindles ! The soffite was like some original italian, palladian stairwell, rendered with plaster. Enjoy this great setting ! ( look at the floor tiles too !)
Read MoreNot really a floating stone staircase but none the less very interesting with its metal stinger hidden in the partition wal
Read MoreThat what future might look if we push specialising in post tension spiral stairs or floating staircase since now 2010 when we first use this technique on a portland stone staircase. The floating sensation for this known heavy material is quite destabilising. Especially with the thin throat of the stone or marble steps.
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