After 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 MoreWhat a joy to see a great young architect using sone for this key monument about extinction ! the Portland limestone is a great material. We have been using it for a lot of our stone staircases.
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Load bearing house.
massive stone for the construction of new build.
I would advice people to visit the website link, http://eliet-lehmann.com People have forgotten how stone is and was and will be always a building material, green, sustainable.
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 MoreA recent article on the great website stone-ideas http://www.stone-ideas.com/2014/10/04/geographical-indications-protection-natural-stone/ about why stone should be protected and have a proper code of ethic when it comes to building stone. For to long we have ignore the plea of manufacturer to have a non commercial name to stone so transparency can prevailed ! Man made material are so much better organised from wet cast stone to reconstituted stone or concrete ! We should be more organised with proper labelling !
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 MoreWe always, in Europe, forget to look the work in the US, we think their architecture is or too trashy or to classical, but recently some great project using natural stone instead of wet cast concrete are being unveiled http://www.stone-ideas.com/2014/09/14/tucker-awards-natural-stone-facade-touch-kente-cloth/
Read MoreSometimes in the whole chaos of the net some incredible pictures arise. And this is most incredible vault in local limestone is just amazing.
I have seen a lot in my time put this one seem to tick all the boxes ! It is a dymanic setting, proportions that hit the sweet spot and an amazing linkage from the stone steps to the stone vault Where did this so sparkling imagination come from ? Enjoy !
Read MoreNot really a floating stone staircase but none the less very interesting with its metal stinger hidden in the partition wal
Read MoreBack from work for the marketing team, but the fitting team have been so busy in august fixing 2 cantilever stone staircase and a cladding for a swimming pool in Knightbridge.
Read MoreA great idea to recycle waste ! why not a skate park using marble or hard stone waste ? http://www.stone-ideas.com/2014/08/07/carrara-marble-region-skaters-park-made-natural-stone-offal/
What a change, we should send our stone steps that have been wrongly done ( that sometimes happen) to be use there ! Stone, marble, french limestone or portland.
Recycling stone has been always at the core of stonemasonry, in classical architecture how many time old stone structure where dismantling and rebuilding using old piece of stone. Now we can even crush all type of limestone and use it for all sort of landfill and decoration ! even Carrara marble ! Stone is by definition recyclable and has its right place in the Green Guide !
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 MoreRobert Adam, classical architecture specialist have been battling for some time with this massive mansion.
The scheme will be using some Stone and portland limestone for sure, will have a massive impact on the landscape.
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