In case you missed it, fantastic news for Lewis showing what Scottish stonemasons can do 🎉. dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-new…

I recognise that wall!😉

Always love when my work pops up!

France are very good at street aesthetics and how pedestrians and vehicles can co work together… something we in the UK could learn a great deal from

image on left suggests regalia Queen was wearing in 1981 at the Trooping of the Colour, riding her horse Burmese when she was ‘shot’ at .. her reaction was a brilliant example of the British spirit ‘keep calm and carry on’ if yes would get my vote

I abhor what those little ‘diktats’ have inflicted upon society

The traditional Arts & Crafts are an inheritance, one born of thousands of years of accumulated human wisdom. They are not ours to burn upon altars of progress or efficiency, rather to safeguard as faithful stewards so that our children too may walk along a Beautiful path.

Read Vasari’s ‘Life of the artists’ lack of skills etc has always been lamented.. the skills still exist .. what we lack is belief in ourselves and vision.. the money men call the shots now

metalocus.es/en/news/harmon… link to architect

It’s a great aspiration Micah but alongside that there is a cultural and moral conversation to be had .. are you having that? Or know who is? Failures of the past happened because the ‘trendsetters’ were in a powerful bubble

There’s a great debate going on at the moment about how stone should once again be used structurally

Yes Micah Springut & Monumental Labs doing great things ..really exciting interplay between technology & craft. I’m working on developing an International Festival of Stone to be held in Dundee late summer next year which aims to explore all things stone!

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Natural stone is the main component..there’s something very special about it! Also the ‘hand & eye, human’ effort to create it adds to the fascination and ‘comfort’ of the space

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So they can coordinate & hire in a tarmac lorry…never a single person on them either but can’t arrange one guy to relay ‘10mtrs by 400mm??’ Which is probably half a shift for a skilled worker ….sheer disregard and laziness🤬

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I use that all the time … what we build says..’we were once here , and we mattered!’ A lot of our shared spaces now only snarls ‘only money matters’… the humanity is GONE…or has it??