Another Stone Staircase

09 Mar Another Stone Staircase

Nancy has a design aesthetic that employs the intersection of a respect for the randomness of nature, and the ordering of form that elementally simple utility demands.  For example, she has us build a lot of staircases out of natural stone.  Not every project has this as a design element, but many do, at least in some form of a stone bridge, pathway or retaining wall.  Here’s another example of the implementation of a utility feature on a recent project.  Its a stone staircase.  I love building these.  This one is made from Bluestone that I cut, but as minimally as I needed to so that every visible surface is a naturally appearing cleave, or snap of the rock.

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Bluestone steps, North Seattle, 2014