Formed Stone Design

01/23/2016

Dirty Habit San Francisco concrete feet

03/14/2015

Bars of Progress: Concrete and rebar form the foundation of all modern civilization, the infrastructure upon which society progresses. Yet each rung of progress becomes exponentially more difficult to reach as we advance ourselves back into barbarism.

03/14/2015

I call this one "Integration."

12/20/2014

New terms: 100% design control or no deal.

10/03/2014

Our latest delivery: two 6' Fluidity concrete sinks, made famous by Formed Stone Design, LLC, with ADA-compliant stainless steel bases. These will be featured at the newly renovated Bissinger's chocolate factory event space as a tiny portion of their $11 million renovation of a $4 million historic building in St. Louis. Go and wash your hands there sometime.

08/25/2014

A project from a few months ago (still waiting for installed photos). You've never seen concrete -- or a vanity -- like this before. Sink and drawer fronts are concrete, and the whole assembly is designed as a torsion box to span a 7' space, supported only at each end -- with absolutely no deflection to throw off the super-tight clearance between the drawer fronts and the vanity top. Lots of steel and wood structural components that you don't see here. A beautiful marriage of engineering and art. I even performed bending stress and moment of inertia calculations.

06/20/2014

Another one of these, this time with stainless steel overflow ports. color is industrial grey. I love , but my saw blades are still upset with me.

06/19/2014

Check it out! The President is using our concrete! http://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/image/6_182014_obama-58201jpg/

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06/19/2014

I was just informed that the President sat on our bench today (well, the bench with our concrete solar console on it) at the White House Maker Faire. Not sure where we could possibly go from here...

06/10/2014

We are honored to be working with the team at Changing Environments on their smart urban seating project. Their goal is to "update the city for our generation," and they have really gotten a lot of attention with their initial prototypes. They have designed a really attractive bench featuring a steel base, wood seat, and concrete solar-charging console with USB plugins and have selected us to build the concrete consoles for them. Here are the first three leaving the shop.

These will begin to pop up first in the Boston area and then, who knows? Maybe your city will get one. The first completed bench will make its debut at the White House Maker Faire on the 18th.

We can't take credit for this cool design, but developing the mold design and fabrication process has been quite a challenge. There are several unseen difficulties with this one.

For more info on Changing Environments, check them out at www.changing-environments.com.

06/03/2014

An eleven-footer from a few months ago. Thanks to Mike Sanders for the photos. I could get used to a bathroom like this.

05/26/2014

Working on an ADA-compliant, commercial vanity with a steel base and our signature Fluidity sink design... and a steel-framed mirror. Uh oh, we have now expanded our product offerings above the 36" elevation mark. Where will we stop?!