The question is not ‘what’ makes our spaces beautiful or playful. The question always is, who makes our spaces beautiful or playful.
The cities, towns and places we reside in are created of some or the other material (or created of many materials if you are concerned about the philosophical or grammatical implications of saying just ‘material’). But who made those choices of using one material and not the other? This and not that.
And then who made the choices about arranging and patterning those material to be experienced day after day, year after year?
Have a look at these cobble patterns below. The playfulness of the arrangers and pattern-makers, the architects, the project owners, the landscapers on display…
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In Yellow/Brown Kota Stone, a lovely idea for Garden Steps or for your outdoors.
While this is done in Yellow/Brown Kota Stone, this can be done in any stone in any surface finish. Sandstone, Granite, Marble, whatever fits your project and the aesthetics of your project.
If you take an aerial shot using a drone, these would look like polka dots!
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Some pictures of this beautiful Indian natural stone, Kurnool Grey. Don’t confuse this with Kota Stone; of course, Grey in Kota Stone looks as beautiful one can say.
Pay attention to the surface finishes. Do your eyes love what they are seeing? Your feet will surely love the feeling touching this surface.
Size is 1200 mm * 600 mm.
Couple of more pictures in a different size: 600 mm * 600 mm. Surface finish is again a little different from what you see above.
Not just on Kurnool Grey, these amazing surface finishes can be achieved on other natural stone or granite. And all of them feel amazing. If you haven’t experienced K. K. Stones’ surface finishes on Indian natural stone, it’s time to try.
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Some glimpses of Nimbahera stone outdoors. This is Taj Sarsa Hotel in Udaipur.
Credit to the architect and the artisans who accomplished this. May have been done long back. But that’s the thing about using Indian natural stone. It lends a beauty nothing can really match.
I find this rush to install glossy surfaces indoors and outdoors quite pukish at times. Vitrified tiles to me feel like ‘cheap glamour and gloss’.
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My visits to Rajasthan were filled with such sights, such walls erected around schools and government offices and buildings. It’s easy to spot them even now whenever you visit places in Rajasthan and your eyes are open for architectural discoveries.
Pardon the quality of the picture above but you get the idea, I hope.
These walls can stand forever if the pieces of stone are bound well. They barely need any upkeep or maintenance efforts. And lend the project such a character.
The thing about showing such walls is that you need to photograph them from a fair distance, which is often not possible. They feel amazing in actual anyway.
Here’s what we can offer in case you desire to create a wall like that.
What kind of walls have you planned for your project? Do not let them be painted and bland. There are better ways to erect walls.
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Plenty of applications for such thick heavy duty granite slabs. Some time back we made some for outdoor benches too. Once installed, no worrying about maintenance and upkeep. It is a forever thing.
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Showing 2 patterns in Black and White cobblestone.
These are rectangular cobbles finished with shot-blasting. Edges are well-defined. And the surface is finished to a consistent level.
Here’s the second pattern in contrast to the above one.
Yessss, creating Chinese Lattice with cobblestone is doable. And doesn’t that look amazing! The first one is linear long curves. The second one is angular and intricate.
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There is this strange desire among house owners who are renovating their houses or building houses anew, to make their houses look ‘new’.
‘New’ is so mercurial, temporal, elusive, that even while building the ‘new’, the ‘new’ may stop feeling ‘new’. Or right after the day of ‘house warming’, the newness may evaporate like water in desert.
Is it this desire for ‘new new new’ that makes folks select mirror-finished surface for their indoor flooring, irrespective of the material: granite, marble or vitrified tiles?
Look at this floor for example:
You would have guessed that this is granite with grains in shades of brown. If you look carefully, you might also see that it is reflective. And yet it is not mirror-finished surface. No, it is not matte surely.
Think about this.
Do you want a house that looks ‘new’, or do you want a house that feels neat and clean and cozy?
Mirror-finished surfaces often look new but also non-cozy. Beautiful perhaps but quite sterile.
The picture above shows granite flooring with a rather alluring surface finish. To my senses, ideal for indoor flooring where folks are looking for long-term beauty and warmth and a certain comfort and coziness. Mind you, this finish and feeling can’t be replicated using vitrified tiles. Perhaps not even with natural marble. Granite suits the best.
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You can’t print the endless, you can’t print the beauty of the endless quirks.
And that is why, irrespective of the price we put on stone and pay, stone is arguably the most precious thing available for our experiences and spaces and movements.
Vitrified Tile is an abomination in the name of creating spaces for our living and for our experiences. Sure it costs much cheaper than most natural stone but the story typically stops at just that. Over a life time, you can’t fall in love with the vitrified. It will glaze and gloss and you won’t understand what’s really the loss!
Check this picture of Mint Stone piece for modular elevation design.
This is these modular strip-like of pieces of stone are packed and dispatched to the destination. One picture from a recently dispatched order.
These modular wall elevation patterns can be done in many ways and many combinations. For your project, remember to call us and we may be able to contribute.
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These aren’t black, in case that’s how the pic shows to your eyes.
These are the classic ever-pleasing colors of Kota Stone cobbles. Machine-cut edges. And very good quality natural-feeling surface finish done at K. K. Stones Ahmedabad.
Would be interesting to see when the work gets over.
Do you have a project and an expanse that would look great with such cobbles? Do let us know.
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These black pebbles are so well-contoured and rounded and finished they give off a sheen like actual blackberries. Do you see or feel the same looking at these pictures?
If you have a project where you have some lovely spaces and niches and spots to fill, these pebbles should be a great option. Can you visualize your landscapes and hardscapes with these pebbles?
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Time to share glimpses of Matrix Grey-Black Marble.
These are large slabs and meant for large spaces. The deep colors and bold patterns of the marble also demand good space.
Is there a big-space that you are working on?
Almost feels like 3D. Has to be given space to enjoy its beauty.
One might ask, what if we want to use this in small spaces? In which case we would say that you need to figure and determine the color-palette for your space, especially indoors. Then you may be able to make great use of this marble.
We will write a bit more on Color Palette for your projects as time goes by.
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Work in progress… Flooring the area of a bungalow entrance and courtyard with a combination of Chocolate stone (with leather-finish surface) and Yellow stone.
Picture taken in near dark. Looks pretty?
No fad, this will look great for ages.
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It feels like small sized stone bring an endless stimulation. An perennial trigger to imagine things.
Look at this pattern.
Work in progress for a driveway. Colors are sorted but mingling all the same. Looking at the pattern and colors in this pic, the feeling is one of enchanting depth.
Now look at another pattern.
There are 4 colors and the cobbles are well-sorted based on the colors. The patterns in paving make interesting use alternating colors. Pic of work in progress, it would be interesting to see how it looks at the end.
Fascinating! How are you shaping your project? Would cobble patterns make your project interesting?
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Having interacted with so many customers, patrons, Builders, Architects and Interior Designers over the years, I feel that judging the ‘goodness’ of material has gotten inverted somewhat. Let me explain this.
At first there were no vitrified tiles or ceramic tiles. There was just stone, of course, highly dependent on geography and geology of the time.
At first there were no laminates or veneers. There was just wood. Again dependent on the geography and the diversity of trees.
Transportation improved, so local became available globally.
Techniques of composing and making improved, so imitation of stone and wood became possible. And yet, imitation is just that! Imitation. It is not repetition. Because nothing repeats like Nature.
In certain areas, we feel like we have mastered Nature’s ability to repeat through ‘techniques’ but feels far from truth. We have just coaxed Nature to repeat for our purposes.
Let me get back to Stone for now. See that picture right at the beginning? It is a particular pattern of Granite from down south; am not bothering with the name right now. This is just the first slab/slice of the big block of granite. Slabs and slices behind this one may be quite similar or quite different depending of how geological processes may have transpired eons back.
Now, in these times, a lot of folks judge stone by uniformity. Means, they look for how similar to the first slab are the slabs behind. Atrocious! Where does this behavior come from? From mass-produced stuff. From mass-produced vitrified tiles.
And the irony? All, that’s right, all surface patterns and colors found in vitrified tiles are a copy of some or the other natural surface patterns found in stone or marble or granite. They are like the same 4 or 8 or 16 pages of a book printed over and over again. Yes, vitrified tiles are printed!
So having seen such repetition and ugly exactness in repetition in vitrified tiles, customers start looking at natural stone with the same ugly expectation. And they judge natural stone through such a lens. That’s the inversion. Horror!
Their senses get hijacked; I wonder why that happens so often. Or is it just a ruse to bargain for ridiculous prices after all?!
Hello! Just to remind you, the age of natural stone is greater than the history of all living beings arguably. Far far far far older than the history of human beings.
Pick the ugliest of stone, and it has characteristics of durability and opacity demanded by the structure or construction, it will become endearing, and look perfect in its imperfection and ugliness. Try.
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Natural Stone, in its default shape and condition, is a product of ‘creativity’. We do certain things to make it suitable for our purposes like landscaping, indoor flooring, paving et al. But this is something else.l, have a look.
Black Kadappah Stone in a floral form, modular pattern cutting for outdoor or semi-outdoor flooring. Impressive? We like it.
When are we going to agree on one sacred for Kadappah? Earlier it used to be Cudappah and on the picture it is Kadapa! All are the same, in case you write in for inquiry.
Have a look at another picture below.
An applied form of the Kadappah floral form. As is evident it is a sort semi-outdoor sort of space.
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Dear Landscaper, once you floor your space like this, do you think there’s a chance folks visiting and walking through such spaces will ever get bored?
You place any object, any furniture, any insane color and this floor will make everything feel in place. No joke!
Enduring Black Beauty, if you can call it that! 🙂
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As is evident this is outdoor flooring. Looks fabulous? What do you think?
I feel such randomly shaped Kota Stone would be stunning indoors as well. The space between the stone pieces can be much much finer. And the floor can polished glossy like mirror.
For a moment, looking at this picture, it felt like Giraffe skin 😀.
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Durable vs Disposable may feel like opposites actually.
Another question, do you put in efforts to maintain what you consider as ‘disposable’? This is a difficult question. Or may entail some mixed answers. But by and large, you would say, why maintain the stuff that is disposable.
Now, the corollary. Do you put in efforts to maintain what you consider as ‘durable’?
We surely put in more efforts to maintain what is expensive, irrespective of whether is durable or disposable.
Durable vs Disposable is a debate for stuff that’s man-made. Stone is not man-made. We shape it. But we do not ‘make’. We slice it, chisel it, given it dimensions, but we do not ‘manufacture’ it.
Stone is eternal. God’s gift.
What is see below are Cudappah Cobbles with a special surface finish using Shot Blasting.
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Have a look at the pattern created out of some contrasting natural stone cobbles.
If there is a good expanse of land for landscaping and paving in your project you can create something absolutely and almost, I can say, eternally beautiful! What do you think?
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Have you experienced machine-cut cobbles? Not just while laying but while walking on them, especially walking barefoot?
These Soffedge Cobbles are an upgraded version, you can say. Demand a special process to assume these soft edges. They’ve got a look, no? And you can experience the softness of the edges while walking on them too.
Work in Progress of paving with Soffedge Cobbles.
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Showing you some pictures of rocks that are looking for adoption in your landscaping project.
To say that they will make your landscape ancient is not an under-statement. Not at all!
What is going to happen you would love to place your sitting apparatus and furniture somewhere near these rocks, and sip your coffee in the company of these old rocks and dear friends. Not so hard to imagine.
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Udaipur is the destination for ‘destination wedding’, right?
This picture was clicked last year. A resort project in progress. By now, it would all be over and done I guess.
You can see the laying of multi-color machine-cut cobbles with surface dimension of 5.5″ * 5.5″. Looks pretty even in the unfinished look.
Imagine vitrified tiles used in a city like Udaipur that has such rich architectural heritage. Blasphemy! And yet they are doing it all the over the place, the silly straight-lined aluminium panelled hotels.
At places, you see windows made with the classic royal palace-like window-frames, and then floored with vitrified tiles. Pukish when you realise the kind of minds at work.
Horror!
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