Classically Trained in Italy. Custom hand-carved stone sculpture. Made in the USA and Italy.
Cartouche
Indiana Limestone
This cartouche was based on a photo from an old chateaux in France. It is over six feet wide and was installed over the entry of a new home.
Architecture can express the life, vitality, values and wit of the people who occupy buildings. Well-placed ornamentation can add interest, grace and pleasure to a structure. Gothic is a very functional and practical style of construction that exemplifies the use of ornament: In this style, architectural ornaments serve structural purposes while providing a means of visual communication—a quality that was especially important when the gothic style emerged in 12th century Europe, as it was a period of time when most people were illiterate. Pinnacles topped with finials, flying buttresses, keystones and boss stones in arches all provided extra weight at critical points to balance the structure against the forces of gravity and wind.
