Yes 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 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 MoreHaving using social media for a while, we think that for architecture and photography, of stone, marble or anything mineral, from structure...
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 MoreWhat a year ! more than 200 steps in Limestone, for all our cantilever staircase, floating stair and post tension staircases.
Read MoreIt can take a while for a layman to understand how sometimes it is not the harder stone that make the longest standing building ! Take clunch limestone from Bedfordshire, it has been used on so many churches in that area and there are still standing. Of course when you see a piece of lunch your first thought are,
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 MoreWhat a scheme ! when designer decide to use our stone material, marble or limestone. Geometry has always been very important part of our apprenticeship.
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 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 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 MoreA pedagogic piece about some tools we used to handle in the old days. All made of wood but so string and simple. Very easy to repair and reliable. Some are still in use on some site. The lifting jack are great and so strong !
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 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 !
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