Truth In Stone :: The Weblog of Stone Legends

Our job was to get people talking stone… With our stone language I think we have laid claim to being the first to do so. Dear Friends, Architects and Tradesman old and new: While browsing through the pages of this catalog, I hope that you will appreciate the time and energy that has been spent to develop the standards and language required to truly communicate about stone. Because we found no comprehensive examples of standard terminology within our craft, we developed one for you. We believe the “Legend” will assist in communications across the spectrum from owner to factory and back. And we sincerely hope this catalog will take place of prominence as a desk reference for stone. We commend the great works that came before us, and wish to compliment the contemporary examples we have used to display what can be done with cast stone. The industry is coming into it’s own as a welcome alternative to natural and other materials. Cast stone will undoubtedly affect many facets of design, both interior and exterior, rejuvenating your enthusiasm for design. With cast stone, creative control can be yours. Use it to your hearts content. Stone Legends has an array of tools at your disposal, a marriage between state of art information systems and traditional practices handed down for more than two thousand years. With modern information storage technology, we maximize our collective knowledge in a way never before possible. The result is more value for your dollar, without the loss of influence over your project that is generally associated with mass manufacturing. It is the delivery of information that ultimately gives you cost effective, low volume repetitions. You no longer have to make thousands of one thing to make it affordable. Even the estimating allows for the use of only what is required for each project. Each estimator is trained to use alternatives available from existing inventories of tooling, forms and drawings, adding to the budget only that required to fulfill the aesthetic intent. The bang for the buck is in the availability of information as needed, when needed. We have literally thousands of forms and art, libraries full of drawings, plus the skills to use them to catalog in our LEGENDS. The organized matrixes of nomenclature, added to the procedural approach facilitate the search of existing shapes and sizes, as well as assisting in the communication of developing any unique designs required. You want control; you’ve got it. Utilize the versatility of our people and allow yourself the maximum creative influence to have exactly what you want. And never settle for less. Nothing is left to chance. These people are informed, disciplined, and well equipped with the tools to compete. A value that is hard to see until the final product is before you. So just imagine, a large, highly skilled group of people on call, here for one reason and one reason only: To make you a legend.

- Richard L. Carey Executive General Manager