We 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.
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
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.
Read MoreNot everybody can successfully design an Kinkless transition from the curved fro, the flat soffits to the twisted part of the staircase. On this Anstrude stone staircase, you can see the well smooth underneath of the spiral of the cantilever stair.
Read MoreWe added a new natural limestone for our stone stair and fireplaces. It took us a while to find this superb stone with its lovely feature. The base of this material is ivory and we are sure it is going to be a big saker. The strength of this stone is quite high and it will cope with no problem for our cantilever staircase or post tension steps.
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