Passionately stone !

What is more noble, more prestigious and longer-lasting than this raw material used with woodwork crafted by the best professionals in the region to create your kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, library or living romm, or even your office or any other place where you require comfort and a pleasant environment.

As our main raw material we use natural stone extracted from the quarries of Estaillades in the Luberon. This fossil limestone which is white and has a very fine and soft grain, bears traces of shells and other sediments which make it unusual and authentic. The blocks of stone are cut up, worked on, carved, assembled and pre-mounted in our workshop..

The work on limestone is mainly manual work and tools are only used during the initial phases of cutting up and rough shaping. The craftsman's art is used to finish the work and give the stone its full patina.

Why stone ?

Since time eternal, stone has always been used by man as a special material : from simple piles of rough stone found in nature, set up as rudimentary shelters, to the monumental and marvellous pieces of architecture such as the pyramids, Roman buildings or cathedrals.

Stone is long-lasting, longer than human life ; man has always felt the need to leave traces of his passage on earth. Stone is part of human history ; none of the technical disoveries made over fifty centuries of civilisation have led to its disappearance. Stone is a passion ; no other material has taken its place in man's heart, not even in the world of today which is dominated by high technology.

In spite of all the competition stone has undergone from industrial progress this century, stone has resisted and persisted. The know-how and knowledge of quarriers and carvers have been passed down through generations, enhanced by new techniques and diversified into different trades (transformers, layers, finishers) who, today, are highly skilled in their work.

Today, stone is commonly appreciated - who does not like stone ? - but, paradoxically, it is not very well-known, neither by the general public nor by builders. As well as being considered confidential it is often considered as being inaccessible.

Let us rediscover it.....